RE: Morality
April 14, 2012 at 6:51 pm
(This post was last modified: April 14, 2012 at 6:52 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(April 14, 2012 at 3:59 pm)Creed of Heresy Wrote: I could write the same amount of text as the four gospels put together in a quarter of the time about a fantasy character...all four with the an equal level of symbolic density consistent with the OT? I doubt it. While you're at it write a piece of poetry more beautiful that the Koran. I'm sure our Muslim brothers would be impressed.
(April 14, 2012 at 3:59 pm)Creed of Heresy Wrote: ...morality and the golden rule [yes, they DO tie in together, I shouldn't have to explain how, considering that's elementary level of moral understandingAnd it's obvious to me that God exists, I shouldn't have to explain that, should I? The link between morality and the golden rule is most certainly intuitive, but you have not proved that they actually do tie together and why.
(April 14, 2012 at 3:59 pm)Creed of Heresy Wrote: ...are based in biological altruism...again, biological altruism which science has already proven to exist in both the wild AND in human civilizationEvolution is amoral. Biological altruism is the kin selection of 'selfish genes' (E.O.Wilson). Nothing more, nothing less. If anything evolutionary psychology has shown us that what appears to us as moral may actually be anything but.