(November 25, 2016 at 6:42 am)The Joker Wrote: If you do not have an objective standard of morality by which you can determine what is right or wrong, then how are your moral values not just based on your subjective opinions?
If we can reason out why actions are good or bad then we don't need some cosmic busybody to order us around. If we need God to tell us what is good or bad, then no action can be reasoned out to be good or bad-- it depends entirely on what God says, which means that using your capacity to reason is blasphemy.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
