Left holding the baby

Subject: Left holding the baby.

The scientific concept  that I am nothing more than a set of chemical and electrical nerve endings, a series of neutrons fired off by the reception of stimulus received by the brain from the world around around me. Nothing more than an totally individualistic entity who's social norms are little more than a primitive reaction learnt for the sake of collective security.  Or the cathedral  like imposition of "Gods Divine  Purpose" in our lives which seems based on nothing more than the primitive fear which lurks in all of us.
A sense of being possessed by something larger, of sharing a common ancestry which comes as a pre-planned exercise in social awareness with all its psychological assumptions regarding morality and ethics, even its assumption of love and responsibility.
When a women becomes pregnant and feel the baby growing inside her it's a unique bond, that sense of creativity which makes the baby hers. In most of us the sight of a new born child leads us to feelings which can only be described as fundamental, that primitive wonder at such an entity, totally dependent for survival and elemental in its lack of identity, other than being one of us. It's personality and it's tantrums are ahead and often defined by its parents but at this special moment, assuming it is healthy the baby belongs to that common stock of human kind and we love it as if it were ours.

I know there are aberrations to this fulfilment, mothers who want nothing to do with their baby. And men who are merely onlookers in this whole process, other than what their upbringing and social grooming has taught them, an awareness of tenderness unrelated to the requirement of actually giving birth or the initial responsibility which giving birth places on a women.
Is this instinctual ?  This acceptance of a role to be played, or is this a part of the social structure which faith, in its wider relevance to humanity suggests. Could we, would we have developed in the way we have, as social animals, without faith.
Watching chimpanzees or elephants perform inside a tight knit social structure, with care and love for their siblings, one has to ask do they have a faith. Is their mimicry of our socialisation, also with their apparent sense of responsibility not just an animalistic thing.  Have we in our mental probing, our constant search for answers not fallen into the trap of assuming that evolution has a goal. That the intricacies of the 'survival of the fittest' leads to a better outcome. What if the fittest were also the least competent in other fields of human endeavour and that strength was also a weakness in that it destroyed the life opportunities for all but a few Alfa males who's dynasty eventually leads us to a dead end.
Does it remind you of the present phenomena market led capitalism, where growth and market movements are cheered on regardless of where the growth is coming from or why and the movement in share prices do not reflect the quality of the stock held but rather the artificiality of computer driven algorithms which track movement for movements sake.
Will our faith in faith die out when AI (artificial intelligence) takes over and the mechanisms of a mechanistic world, freed from social awareness, unaware of that ethical consideration, finally transcends man's need for the reassurance of a father figure and the only moment left of our flirtation with love for loves sake, is that moment when we see and hold a new born baby.