RE: The difference between ethical atheism and nihlism is that ethical atheists have more faith
March 4, 2013 at 9:20 pm
(This post was last modified: March 4, 2013 at 9:26 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(March 3, 2013 at 10:18 am)Ryantology Wrote: What is this horseshit about Christians valuing life? They don't and never have.Generalize much? I suppose you hate Jews too. You have crossed the line into anti-religious bigotry.
(March 4, 2013 at 1:23 am)mralstoner Wrote: Morality/ethics is a subset of human values. Where can atheists get their values from? Like all the other animals, our values come from our feelings/desires/emotions. Emotion is what evolution programmed us with to tell us what is good and bad in our environment.That evades the issue. Values derived solely from an indifferent evolutionary process only relate to survival value. Your 'morality' is just programmed into by random chance. Rape and slavery have evolutionary advantages. That doesn't make them morally good. But neither does it make them evil because within naturalism good and evil have no meaning.
