DeistPaladin Wrote:Actually, appealing to or asserting the existence of God does nothing to elucidate either our understanding of what is moral or what morality is. All it does is move the problem back a step and provide a needless factor in the problem.
In sum: GodWillsIt is just as unsatisfying to our need to understand ethical dilemmas as GodDidIt is unsatisfying to our need to unravel scientific mysteries.
To expand on this, I have seen two methods offered for how god dictates morality. One is divine revelation which as we've seen with how many ways people can interperet the bible means what is derived as morality from the bible actually stems from what is already inside of us. The second method is that god instills with an innate sense of morality, which as DP as pointed out, does nothing to understand our knowledge of what comprise these morals and what they rely on. Even if god did dictate in morality this way, we must still search for what this innate sense of morality actually means, and brining god into the equation does nothing to further the discussion of what is moral.
In short, regardless of whether you believe we evolved morals or god instilled them, they still stem from our own desires and wishes. Be they objective or subjective morals, divine will or evolution at work, they are filtered through our own interperetations of the world. This filter is what we should be striving to understand.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
