Morality

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Well, fine, that still leaves two questions.  Are there other explanations other than factual error or falsehood that account for differences between past morals and present ones?  If you don't like the biblical example, then use Roman moral beliefs about slavery in its stead.  Those have certainly changed.  I'm not clear on your point about the economic necessities of bible cultures.  Are you suggesting they had different moral understandings on account of those factors, or are you suggesting they had the same moral understandings that we do, they just accepted an immoral practice out of need?  If the latter, then I have to ask what evidence you have for this.  The second question is what faculties allow us to recover or correct beliefs we have that are false or factually in error?

Yes, there are other explanations, as i indicated previously. The answer to some moral questions are hard, and complicated, and not easy to ascertain and answer to, particularly when they involve a variety of moral concerns, that might be served by one response, but not the other.

Morality like truth, can be difficult to ascertain in certain situations, and reasonable people may decide on different outcomes, particularly when those concerns are political in nature. Same can be said about truth. Just because we all hold that objective truth exists, this doesn't mean we know everything.

ETA: Three actually, as you haven't answered my concerns about the Gazzaniga quote.

have to get back to you on that.
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