Tooth Fairy Bullshit

[Catholic_Lady]

He's  right though. On what basis do we claim that a particular act is objectively good? Why is it good to help people and bad to hurt people? 

I've heard it said that I help other people for the good of our species because it comes back to me and helps keep me alive. Because we each evolved to stay alive by helping out in our communities. 

But at some point in the future we will get to a place where we are so over populated, that it will be to our personal benefit for other people (unless they are particularly important) to die, not for them to live. Do we eventually evolve to think that hurting people is good and helping them is bad?

We base our morals on what society will tolerate at the time and is something that has evolved over millions of years but has become more sophisticated since we evolved language, he invented writing and laws.

In fact you can see that morality has changed greatly for thebetter in the more secular regions.

Or do you still think you need to kill a small bird to re-enter your house after you've given birth.
Or kill a man with a tattoo etc etc.

I fail to see how the insertion of an overlord watching us brings anything to the party.

I'm not saying people need to believe in God to be good. 

What I'm saying is, I believed God instilled in each of us an inherent, basic understanding between what is good and what is bad. 

No matter how our species continues to evolve, I don't think we'll ever have a universal understanding that things like rape and theft are good. I think it goes deeper than simply evolving to behave for our own self interest.