The origin of morality

[Mystical]

You too Godschild, you sound like an idiot. Go read up on some shit, for real.

I'd say check out this specific video which is actual science, but then I realized it's PBS so you're probably like, whaaaat? Devil worshippers? Hell no!

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/librar...44_02.html

Paul Nurse demonstrated that a strain of yeast with a defective gene could use the human version of that gene to repair itself. That we not only share a common genetic code with other organisms, but that we actually share specific genes, is powerful evidence of our common ancestry.

The Human Genome Project is revealing many dramatic examples of how genes have been "conserved" throughout evolution -- that is, genes that perform certain functions in lower animals have been maintained even in the human DNA script, though sometimes the genes have been modified for more complex functions.

This thread of genetic similarity connects us and the roughly 10 million other species in the modern world to the entire history of life, back to a single common ancestor more than 3.5 billion years ago. And the evolutionary view of a single (and very ancient) origin of life is supported at the deepest level imaginable: the very nature of the DNA code in which the instructions of genes and chromosomes are written.


Biologically and chemically, there is no reason why this particular genetic code, rather than any of millions or billions of others, should exist, scientists assert. Yet every species on Earth carries a genetic code that is, for all intents and purposes, identical and universal. The only scientific explanation for this situation is that the genetic code was the result of a single historic accident. That is, this code was the one carried by the single ancestor of life and all of its descendents, including us.