As other posters have stated. Thought is a result of physical processes. The mind and brain are connected. To assert minds and thoughts are somehow immaterial and independent of the physical self flies in the face of evidence and experience. For instance people who suffer from brain injury can lose memeory or even change personality. How can this be the case if their minds were immaterial?
Morality is made mysterious by theists who often ask were it came from. Its casusitry I'm afraid. There is a lot of evidence that we have to behave well to one another in order to survive as a species. Just a simple thought experiment: what happens to a society who believe murder is always acceptable? They die out, therefore only societies who do not think murder is always acceptable survive. But it runs deeper than that, a more detailed sketch of human morality without the need for god can be seen in the contractairan model. It is by no means a full explanation, but is no worse than the god model and it is simpler in that it does not need to invoke a diety.
Morality is made mysterious by theists who often ask were it came from. Its casusitry I'm afraid. There is a lot of evidence that we have to behave well to one another in order to survive as a species. Just a simple thought experiment: what happens to a society who believe murder is always acceptable? They die out, therefore only societies who do not think murder is always acceptable survive. But it runs deeper than that, a more detailed sketch of human morality without the need for god can be seen in the contractairan model. It is by no means a full explanation, but is no worse than the god model and it is simpler in that it does not need to invoke a diety.
"I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence"...Doug McLeod.
