(May 31, 2013 at 3:59 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote: So would you say that for the purpose of your view on morality you are still assuming God exists because that allows you to adopt a view of morality that transcends mankind? Did I understand that correctly?
No, simply that my morals changed very little when I became an atheist. I don't believe that they came from god, since I don't believe god exists. But leaving religion didn't change my general outlook towards life and how I treat others, and so I haven't found any reason to change my view on right and wrong on most issues.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
