Evolution cannot account for morality

[chiknsld]

Sorry, I'm going to have to start being a bit more straight to the point, as my patience is getting a tad bit lower.

The idea that evolution can account for morality in some straightforward way -- for example, that altruistic people have more babies -- falls into the field of evolutionary psychology. Propositions in this field are notoriously difficult to confirm, since there is no way to conduct a repeatable empirical quantifiable test. (It seems more likely to me that morality is a complex phenomenon, including cultural and traditional elements, which could lead to people with identical DNA having very different moral views, depending on contingent social conditions.) 

Some evo psych papers are better than others, but some of them fall well into the category of wishful thinking just-so stories. 

Here is a recent paper in a peer reviewed journal devoted to evo psych. It posits that groups of religious people, particularly Mormons, and political conservatives, are likely to become more intelligent over time while less religious or more liberal groups will become stupider. It claims that conservative religious people are more grounded and happy while liberals are more likely to be mentally unstable and depressed. 

https://link.springer.com/article/10.100...22-00327-y

I am very skeptical of this paper's premisses and conclusions. But it met the standards for this professional journal.

That's very interesting, do you think that an advanced species is capable of not having any morality at all? Or do you think that life itself requires morality as it would require group dynamics, compromise, etc.?