(July 2, 2013 at 3:09 pm)Inigo Wrote:Fidel_Castronaut Wrote:Naturally.it just wouldn't do to discuss evidence based theories.
How am I ignoring the evolutionary explanation? I am not denying the evolutionary explanation!! But the evolutionary explanation is an explanation of the development of our moral sense and moral beliefs. And morality is not a sensation or a belief. It is the thing sensed, the thing believed. How many times?
An evolutionary explanation of religious sensations and beliefs can be provided as well. Does such an explanation show those religions to be true? No, it debunks them.
Similarly, an evolutionary explanation of our moral sense and beliefs DEBUNKS those beliefs.
Morality - as the thing sensed, is created by the sensing. Morality would not exist without the human brain (uniquely as far as we know) recognising it.
No higher power required, beyond the brain that is.