(March 16, 2014 at 3:28 am)tor Wrote: So objective morals don't exist.That seems to be the case. With few exceptions I think we can describe scenarios where an action considered to be immoral nearly all of the time could be considered moral. Actions such as murder or rape would be the most difficult to do that for; I can't think of anything outside of "do this or the universe will blink out of existence."
Ironically, many of those who claim that objective morality exists believe that they get those absolute rules from a creature that has condoned many of the actions that we would find most difficult to rationalize as moral. Go figure.
"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
