Locke and key

Locke talks about the state of nature for the purpose of answering the following questions: 1) why do men have rights, and 2) what rights do men have? It is as if mankind is a written document. Locke needs to deduce what the document is saying based on the actual words that are written. In order to make an implication, one has to go back to the written words. This is what Locke is doing. His implication, the existence of men’s rights, comes from the evidence or written words, the state of nature. Locke believes that by nature, every person is born with equality---no person should have any superiority over any other human being. What indisputable fact can Locke make about all human beings in order to reason this “equality?” All are born with “the same faculties, and also should be equal one amongst another.” Kings, queens, and all other leaders of countries take power not because they, by nature, are better than anyone else. If this was so, the King/Queen could be born in any part of the world, and its people would universally recognize the King’s/Queen’s superiority.
Kings, Queens, and other leaders leave the state of nature. This is because they want to force subjugation. This incident would be similar to one slave forcing another slave to serve him/her. Slaves have no authority, by definition, to make another serve him/her. One slave cannot be seen as superior to another. However, a slave, in fact, has the option of making another serve him/her…but there is no justification. Selfishness is the main reason for leaving the laws of nature. It is like lying to oneself.
Another emphasis Locke uses for his reasoning is religion. In a way, all human beings are servants/slaves to God. God is the only authority. He made all people equal, and he made them all to serve Him. No person can claim superiority over another because all men have been made from “the slime of the earth.”
Locke’s ideology is in contrast with the theory of evolution, and consequently, with Marx (who dedicated his work to Darwin). With evolution, there is an absence of God, and the laws of nature are interpreted differently. People are not born equally, but rather, their biological traits determine their worth. Locke’s approach to human value does not deal with the biological, but the soul.