(May 9, 2013 at 7:45 pm)Godschild Wrote: So you want all non-believers to think like you do, just as you want all Christians to believe as you do, that's what I call real freedom of thought.
No, that's coming at the issue backwards from what I'm proposing. I'm saying that theists constantly bring up, ad nauseum, the fact that (to quote William Lane Craig), "On atheism, there is no moral framework."
In a way, this line of reasoning is correct. The simple disbelief in something does not imply a creed or moral structure to follow. This is why many atheists also consider themselves secular humanists. What I'm saying is, science is just scratching the surface on why things like empathy occur naturally, but eventually it will be able to be addressed with a high degree of certainty. Theists can refer to their scriptures and claim they have a base for morality from on high, but the argument only works until science proves where it actually comes from.
