Where do atheists get their morality from?

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Well, I have discovered who looks after straw supply and constructions around here. In principle I have responses I should make to Vinny but the posts are seven pages back and other people seem to have covered off his obtuseness fairly well.

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It appears that stephenmills1000 has disappeared, perhaps not wanting to answer the questions I raised in the last few paragraphs here.

Are you now the person with whom to speak, Atom? If so, would you mind taking up those questions on stephenmills behalf?

I suspect he went to sleep and attended Church. hock:

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Most of your post seemed well reasoned, I don't disagree with most of what you said. I do have a problem with evolutionary explanations for morality, in part because they are ad hoc, but also because watching the complete indifference of animals to pain and suffering in each other seems to contradict the idea that humans being social animals, explains why humans value caring for each other. A lot of social animals get along fine with very little indications of benevolence toward each other so why should we think such benevolence is evolved in humans?

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When western scrub jays encounter a dead bird, they call out to one another and stop foraging.

The jays then often fly down to the dead body and gather around it, scientists have discovered.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/19421217

You were saying....

Maybe the Jays like eating maggots or flies. What do you think they were doing?