RE: atheism and children
August 8, 2015 at 2:23 pm
(This post was last modified: August 8, 2015 at 2:32 pm by Excited Penguin.)
(August 7, 2015 at 10:28 pm)lkingpinl Wrote:(August 7, 2015 at 10:20 pm)excitedpenguin Wrote: We call things evil because of our evolutionary instincts, not anything else. "God", in this case, while still being nothing more but the most unfortunate fictional character in the history of literature, is evil because he's supposed to be omnipotent yet people die and life isn't perfect. It's that easy.
But that would still be by your own definition, opinion or feeling of what is evil. Evolutionary ethics is nothing but pragmatism. Even Darwin admitted that if the philosophical out workings were to be made of his theory the future is nothing short of unbridled violence.
I wasn't deriving any philosophical underpinnings from how evolution works. I was merely stating a couple of facts - whether you accept them as such or not, though, is irrelevant.
Just a side note:
Darwin being the one who first proposed the theory certainly doesn't make him an infallible authority with all of its implications. I wasn't talking about any such thing though. I was pointing out to you that your ethical instincts have a real, biological, experimental even(from nature's point of view) - if you wish - basis, and there is no reason to believe that any sort of supernatural phenomena is involved in bringing this about.