Objective morality as a proper basic belief

[Astonished]

1: Why has God given me a defect in my brain?

2: There are evolutionary/genetic and behavioural studies on this, trust me I have read LOADS on this.

3: Brain states and evolution baby. It ain't objective, it's all about wellbeing, and cantankerous primates can disagree, we aren't all alpha-males and I don't feel the need to be right. I just want to be nice and have never seen the evidence for the supernatural, that's your bag.

4: Come to England and drink a warm beer, that might piss you off. But I am a remainer and would offer you a French lager.


But seriously, why could morality not come from human experience? Do you not think we knew that murder was wrong before Sinai? And even if you are right, how does that make your claim different from any other posited god?

I prefer Occam and evidence. Parsimony and libations.

1. I don't believe God was the cause of the defect.
2. Evolutionary?
3. Read the NT. Talk to someone who was changed. Talk to a missionary who ministered in some remote place where God's work is more apparent and needed.
4. Was in England last month. 25th wedding anniversary trip. Portsmouth, Oxford, Harrogate, Lake District. 

I believe that morality is written on the heart of every (normal) human.

Occam was a monk, philosopher and theologian. His razor principle is one applied to scientific inquiry. Investigating God is not scientific in the slightest. 

The fact that there are other religions have no bearing on the question of truth. There are many ways in which Christianity is better evidenced and reasoned than other religions.

1. Ah, moving the goal posts. Don't see that often when I argue. Almost refreshing. So let's see, what are you doing to differentiate your view of god from others that simultaneously gets you what you want, without rendering god irrelevant and pointless? If this god is not the creator and designer of all things, including mental defects, are you willing to admit you were wrong or lying to cover your ass?

2. Read. A. Fucking. Book. A real one, not that tripe that even your level of reading comprehension can't seem to help you understand. There are different scientific disciplines and different facets within those disciplines, each of which has a perspective from which something can be observed. If I'm looking at something chemically, I see the underlying components and reactions, and if I'm looking at something biologically, I'm looking at what macro-effect that chemical reaction has on a living thing. Two different ways of looking at the same thing. I should not have to explain this to you if you made it through middle school.

3. Emotional appeal, now we're getting into familiar, tired, sad territory. Your religious beliefs are completely, utterly unnecessary for changing someone's life in a positive way and when I see people all over the world suffering because of reasons that are EXCLUSIVELY DUE TO RELIGIOUS FAITH, you will conveniently turn a blind eye. You don't get to have it one way, let alone both ways, buster. You're wrong in every way it's possible to be.

4. If while you're over there, you see a blue police box slowly vanishing, that's more interactive with the world than any concept of god ever proposed. It's a good example of the kind of evidence you might consider presenting since at least that can be observed if only conditionally.