(June 25, 2013 at 6:49 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote: I do not see how this proves that morals are therefore relative, rather than there being an objectively true standard that people ought to follow but they simply rebel against and replace with false standards.
I think that's where belief in a god or god(s) comes in. If you believe that there is a higher being who built us to prosper when we follow his guidelines, then morality can be absolute and there are actions that will always be moral or always immoral.
"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
