RE: The Bible: A Moral book?!
April 12, 2012 at 6:05 pm
(This post was last modified: April 12, 2012 at 6:07 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(April 12, 2012 at 5:50 pm)genkaus Wrote: I guess the OP is using "evolved moral sense" as the standard. Why do you find it objectionable?As I see it, if we say our moral standard is based on human nature, then the next question is 'What is the basis of human nature?' If we then say, human nature is a product of evolution, then how does the amoral process of evolution produce a moral standard? The response is usually that the resulting 'moral sense' has helped us survive. But ultimately survival is an on-going struggle for procreative dominance, both between different species and between individuals of the same species. Right and wrong have no place in that process, only power does. One could take a different approach and say that humans evolved to become rational creatures and as a result are able to reason about morality. True enough, except that implies something about which we can reason that is not part of the evolutionary process.
