The argument from morality is scary.

[Mark 13:13]

wow what a long thread and will take me time to read it; and yes teaearlgreyhot your point of view seems to me the ultimate logical outcome of the good/evil question if we take God out of the question. But i will need to read the full tread before i can comment further. The question would of course arise of what sort of society do we become if we all follow this code. ( or maybe are as although many profess religion myself included how many really live up to it) And no Capn I don't think it means we are all born with a scale or that such a scale even if natural would prove or disprove God. And the idea that we need God to prevent us from the evil acts you mention would just be instantly countered with natural selection. Its more a new way of looking at the question if God exists and is good why does He allow evil from another perspective that being if God doesn't exist then what is evil.