(July 3, 2013 at 10:04 am)BadWriterSparty Wrote:How can morality be evolutionary if we need to be taught it? Is there a guy who came up with it and then taught it to everyone else? Is there a group of people who determine what we believe to be right and wrong?(July 3, 2013 at 8:26 am)NoraBrimstone Wrote: No. Just no.
"Lord of the Flies" is a good piece of literature that pretty much spells out what happens when people aren't taught morals and ethics. Religion may teach people values such as this, but they aren't exclusive to god. I can't believe you when you say that it's "wired into the brains of people everywhere". I know I left this conversation awhile ago, but I can't allow you to just LIE when talking to people. If you're going to assert something like that, then provide some scientific studies to back up your claim that people are inherently "good".
Also, remember that it's the human race that defines what is good and what isn't. Just because a philosophical concept exists, it doesn't make god appear out of thin air. When the people of ancient Greece fell in love, they imagined it was some imaginary force that caused them to, so they attributed their sudden feelings to the god Eros. If god exists because "good" does, then Eros is still around because people still fall in love.
I thought man was inherently evil. But we can all find out for ourselves, naturally, what "good" is. It's the moral landscape.
Actually, "good" exists because God does. It is an immutable product of an immutable being. Or can you tell us that, if circumstances change, murder can one day be accepted as moral?
