(February 26, 2016 at 11:26 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(February 26, 2016 at 10:41 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: If our understanding of God or of morals has changed, then who is to say that they have changed for the better? You're assuming that our understanding has improved. Yet everything has been getting worse since the Fall, why is our understanding any exception? How do you know that your current moral feelings about slavery aren't a misunderstanding rather than an increase in understanding. How do you know you have the best understanding of morals, and that say people in another country who stone people for homosexuality and rape are not superior. How do you decide what is a part of this objective morality?
Jor, it revolves around our belief that life is sacred and that we all have inherent, God given human rights that ought to be respected.
It more rationally comes from a simple sense of fairness and self-interest. It's simply the golden rule.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
