RE: what are we supposed to say again when christians ask us where we get our morality?
May 12, 2014 at 2:50 pm
(May 11, 2014 at 9:53 pm)leodeo Wrote: god i wish i thought of that earlier, i always think of the best things to say AFTER the conversation it pisses me off!That's one of the ways that we learn. See it for the learning experience that it is.
As for morals and behavior, what kind of person are you? Are you an irresponsible and unlikable person who lies, cheats, and steals? Do you have a lousy reputation among your peers and those who know you? Are your peers afraid to be anywhere near you for fear that they will be beaten, robbed, raped, or killed? Or would they characterize you as a moral person?
If you're what they'd consider a moral person, then they're brave to ask where you get your morals from. Because if you didn't get it from their favorite book of fairy tales, then that might indicate that people don't need a book of fairy tales to teach them to behave a certain way. And then they might start to wonder why they're getting their morals from a book of fairy tales.
"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."
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