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Euthyphro dilemma asked for evolution.
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RE: Euthyphro dilemma asked for evolution.
(June 9, 2012 at 3:47 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Some people believe evolution created objective morality. You can ask:

"Did evolution produce what is moral because it is moral or did is it moral because evolution declare it so/produced it".

I don't. I don't believe in objective morality. Evolution can't "declare it so" - it's a process that doesn't have intentions.

(June 9, 2012 at 3:47 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Yet morality as we all perceive it as authority to the highest degree, there is no limit to the the authority it has.

Uh, no. You're asserting something is true, but I don't see any reason to believe you.

(June 9, 2012 at 3:47 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: You see, God can't decide what morality is either, it's rather has to be either whom he is, or part of whom he is.

That just leads to another split in the horn of the dilemma (well now it's a trilemma). If morality is part of god's nature (i.e. "part of whom he is"), then that leaves two choices:
  1. God can control his nature.
  2. God cannot control his nature.
If it's option #1 we get the familiar result of god's nature (and thus morality) being subject to his whims. If option #2 is correct he's not omnipotent. Also, his nature must be dictated by something outside of him since he's not in control of it. The solution collapses back into the same dilemma.
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RE: Euthyphro dilemma asked for evolution. - by genkaus - June 10, 2012 at 9:15 am
RE: Euthyphro dilemma asked for evolution. - by Tempus - June 10, 2012 at 3:26 am
RE: Euthyphro dilemma asked for evolution. - by genkaus - June 10, 2012 at 11:31 am
RE: Euthyphro dilemma asked for evolution. - by genkaus - June 11, 2012 at 5:52 am
RE: Euthyphro dilemma asked for evolution. - by genkaus - June 11, 2012 at 10:20 am
RE: Euthyphro dilemma asked for evolution. - by genkaus - June 12, 2012 at 12:36 pm
RE: Euthyphro dilemma asked for evolution. - by genkaus - June 13, 2012 at 6:04 am
RE: Euthyphro dilemma asked for evolution. - by genkaus - June 13, 2012 at 7:56 am
RE: Euthyphro dilemma asked for evolution. - by genkaus - June 13, 2012 at 10:15 am
RE: Euthyphro dilemma asked for evolution. - by genkaus - June 13, 2012 at 1:15 pm
RE: Euthyphro dilemma asked for evolution. - by genkaus - June 13, 2012 at 2:38 pm
RE: Euthyphro dilemma asked for evolution. - by genkaus - June 13, 2012 at 3:49 pm
RE: Euthyphro dilemma asked for evolution. - by genkaus - June 13, 2012 at 4:30 pm
RE: Euthyphro dilemma asked for evolution. - by genkaus - June 13, 2012 at 7:10 pm
RE: Euthyphro dilemma asked for evolution. - by genkaus - June 14, 2012 at 4:11 am
RE: Euthyphro dilemma asked for evolution. - by genkaus - June 15, 2012 at 9:41 am
RE: Euthyphro dilemma asked for evolution. - by genkaus - June 16, 2012 at 4:50 pm
RE: Euthyphro dilemma asked for evolution. - by MysticKnight - February 2, 2016 at 12:26 am

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