Moral Argument for God's Existence

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Apes who murder other apes are not held morally culpable for their actions. Aggressiveness and passiveness in dogs is similarly regarded as part of their nature - not something they bear moral responsibility for. The effect of genes maybe mish-mashed into our morality, but the extent of that effect can be separated and to the extent it is responsible for behavior, desires, sex-drive etc. we do not hold people morally responsible for them. This is not a difference in content - like moral differences of elephants and lions - it is a fundamental difference in its nature. The "evolution of morality" argument specifically addresses the precursors of human morality - but morality itself has come a long way from that. Ignoring all the other factors responsible for development of morality and limiting the answer to just evolution makes for a shitty argument.

I didn't mean to imply that it was just limited to evolution, but I do believe the question is where does morality come from. If you are talking about in an overall sense for human beings I think the answer has to be evolution. The same as we evolved out intellect we evolved our morality. That our intellect is separate from animals does not mean that it is somehow not from evolution. I didn't mean to imply that our individual morality is the result of evolution. It's obviously a factor of culture and other factors. But as a species morality has helped us survive.