(November 9, 2013 at 4:36 pm)GodsRevolt Wrote: THIS is a great question!
Absolute morals?
Short answer: YES
With three aspect that need to be considered when looking at them:
But that seems to indicate that the morality of an action is conditional, which is what I was saying. You are admitting that there are occasions when an action can be moral, and when that same action can be immoral. Lying is typically considered an immoral act, but I think that many people would consider it moral if a person lied in order to protect innocent people from wicked people who sought to harm them. Therefore, lying cannot be moral or immoral in and of itself; it is dependent on context.
"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
