RE: Where do atheists get their morality from?
September 17, 2012 at 9:04 am
(This post was last modified: September 17, 2012 at 9:08 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Well, considering the 150,000 year gap between anatomically modern humans and behaviorally modern humans it would be difficult to establish that some form of religious or sacred morality was manufactured before any sort of practical or secular morality was engaged in by homo sapiens. Consider, btw, that the term "behaviorally modern" does not imply elaborate religious observances. That comes even later. All of this is ignoring the social aspect of our ancestors which stretches back 2.5my (and to be honest, a great deal further). Good luck painting any sort of superstition as the origin of morality. Religious anything (including it's belligerent ramblings on the subject of morality) is a footnote, a minor mention at the end of the chapter on human beings. Look how quickly it rose and then faded with relation to the vast span of time we've been here.
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