RE: The nearness to God factor. How do Atheists feel about moving higher or lower?
April 21, 2014 at 3:00 pm
(April 21, 2014 at 2:08 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: My guess is that those who ground their morality in our genetic heritage would, if they were consistent, strive for greater conformity to evolutionary impulses. Otherwise they would evoke the very transcendent principles they deny.
Given that the tendency of life forms to evolve is, ultimately, a mechanism for survival and advancement, I'm willing to suggest that morality should, ideally, indeed serve that end.