RE: Conflicting statements in the bible
June 25, 2013 at 12:59 pm
(This post was last modified: June 25, 2013 at 1:08 pm by Tonus.)
(June 24, 2013 at 4:58 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote: So anything that helps the species survive and propagate is moral?At its most base level, I think so. Our concept of morals and moral behavior may have developed from there.
Quote:Ok, why is continual survival of the group the ultimate standard?It strikes me as the logical option, especially for beings who are able to empathize.
(June 24, 2013 at 6:49 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote: No, I am asking him why that is the standard, why isn’t it individual survival, family survival, species survival, all life on Earth survival or any other standard? Nobody on here seems to be able to explain how they know any of this, they’ll assert it, but they never back it up with anything besides their own opinion. Morality, as a normative system, cannot be based upon mere opinion.
As far as I am aware, standards of behavior have changed throughout the centuries, and continue to do so today. They seem to be based on opinion.
"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
