Can Creator create morality from nothing?
July 12, 2012 at 2:01 pm
(This post was last modified: July 12, 2012 at 2:04 pm by Mystic.)
I think the answer to this question is no. The Euthyphro dilemma shows that if God commands what he wants of morality, then, morality would be arbitrary. He can command rape and that would be moral. The same can be true if he can create morality out of nothing, he can create our moral instincts that rape is moral. But what we know of morality at least I would argue is that it's not arbitrary. I mean by morality, objective morality, and not in the other sense.
Now from this, I think it would be rational to conclude, morality must be eternal. The reason is that if God can't create morality from nothing, then neither can evolution. I think this is rational to conclude.
The premises are as follows:
(1) If God exists, he cannot create morality when morality didn't exist.
(2) If God cannot create morality when morality didn't exist, then neither can evolution.
(3) Therefore if morality were to be real/objective/non-delusion, it would be eternal.
(4) Objective morality exist.
(5) Therefore Objective morality is eternal.
Now from this, I think it would be rational to conclude, morality must be eternal. The reason is that if God can't create morality from nothing, then neither can evolution. I think this is rational to conclude.
The premises are as follows:
(1) If God exists, he cannot create morality when morality didn't exist.
(2) If God cannot create morality when morality didn't exist, then neither can evolution.
(3) Therefore if morality were to be real/objective/non-delusion, it would be eternal.
(4) Objective morality exist.
(5) Therefore Objective morality is eternal.
