(March 12, 2015 at 5:36 pm)SteveII Wrote: However, we all ACT like there is objective morality. Baby studies indicate that we are born with a rudimentary moral sense. Why do people engage in self-sacrifice for others (even to the point of death)--sometimes for people he/she has not met? This is certainly not biological evolution speaking.Survival of the species. Cold and simple. Humans have attributed the word morality to such actions, but IMHO, I see it simply as survival of the fittest. Birds are not taught to build nests, it is in their genealogy. No nest, no baby birds, no species. So, yes, evolution has beset us with a basic set of 'morals'.
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-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
