(October 31, 2017 at 1:00 am)AtlasS33 Wrote:(October 31, 2017 at 12:04 am)bennyboy Wrote: Objectivity and subjectivity aren't necessarily mutually exclusive. Subjectivity means you experience a moral sense. But there is still plenty of objective truth behind morality: DNA, brain structure, environmental conditions and so on.
You can both say, "I cannot imagine allowing a child to be harmed," and also identify brain structures and processes involved when someone thinks about the protection of young people.
Emotions and their production are written in out DNA, meaning that "feeling bad" or feeling "guilty" about something is pretty much a given ability since birth. To me; that's more of a pointing to an intelligent designer behind our existence.
I sometimes consider consciousness itself in that regard: why would a purely mechanical universe have consciousness at all? However, I don't think the specific details of an organism's consciousness show intelligent design. It seems to me an intelligent designer wouldn't need to leave a string of lesser-designed organisms before us. Nor do humans seem to be anything like perfectly designed-- if the goal is perfection, an intelligent designer might have fast-forwarded to a model much superior to humanity.
