Inigo Wrote:Anyway, here was the though that first set me off doubting atheism. Morality is normative: it instructs, favours, commands. It is not enough for it to appear to do these things. A morality that does not instruct or favour or command is no morality at all. Morality actually does these things. This seems to be a conceptual truth about morality. Yet, for the life of me I find it hard to conceive of how anything other than an agent could do such things.
Through evolution, it's who we've become. What you describe has been hardwired to us through the generations because it's what works best to survive.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle