https://www.livescience.com/24802-animal...-book.html
Moral without god.
In fact I think that belief in god is an impediment to morality. Look at the most theistic countries in the world and you will always see less actual morality than in secular countries.
Its complex why but often it is that the religious laws are from a less enlightened period of our development as a species.
Quote:Some research suggests animals have a sense of outrage when social codes are violated. Chimpanzees may punish other chimps for violating certain rules of the social order, said Marc Bekoff, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and co-author of "Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals" (University Of Chicago Press, 2012).
Male bluebirds that catch their female partners stepping out may beat the female, said Hal Herzog, a psychologist at Western Carolina University who studies how humans think about animals.
And there are many examples of animals demonstrating ostensibly compassionate or empathetic behaviors toward other animals, including humans. In one experiment, hungry rhesus monkeys refused to electrically shock their fellow monkeys, even when it meant getting food for themselves. In another study, a female gorilla named Binti Jua rescued an unconscious 3-year-old (human) boy who had fallen into her enclosure at the Brookline Zoo in Illinois, protecting the child from other gorillas and even calling for human help. And when a car hit and injured a dog on a busy Chilean freeway several years ago, its canine compatriot dodged traffic, risking its life to drag the unconscious dog to safety.
Moral without god.
In fact I think that belief in god is an impediment to morality. Look at the most theistic countries in the world and you will always see less actual morality than in secular countries.
Its complex why but often it is that the religious laws are from a less enlightened period of our development as a species.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
