(March 10, 2014 at 1:33 pm)orangebox21 Wrote: Natural selection (an abstraction) cannot be the author of morality. This would be the fallacy of reification.
Even if those that say evolution is responsible for morality are committing reification, which they are not, you're simply replacing it with your own and trying to cover it up with the bare assertion that morality cannot exist without god.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
