(June 12, 2014 at 1:30 am)naturestubbs1 Wrote: It might serve you well to pick up a book on Sociobiology and form your own opinion. Scores of animals that are much lower on the evolutionary tree than humans MUST adhere to social "rules" because it is key to their very survival. It's not a big leap to see how, over hundreds of millions of years the course of evolution has resulted in a hardwired code of morality that is crucial to our survival. If you are of the school of thought of "nature vs. nurture" then you would probably give alot of credit to one's upbringing. It's pretty simple, don't overthink the problem.
Whatever floats your boat as long as you are all of legal age, sound mind, and agree to enter into the bond without coercion.
I think you need to pick up a book on evolution. I have studied human behaviour and evolution to a great degree. If evolution hard wired morality into humans and not just the capabilities of survival (which our moral choices are based on according to you) why do think societies differ in right and wrong across, history, land, cultures, countries and time? Shouldn't they be the same? I challenge you to find me one gene that encodes some aspect of morality to such a degree that indicates innate morals. Atheists have no moral compass, it's all subjective to them. What is right to one person can be different for another. It's all subjective. Atheists are in no position to judge morality. I would go as far to say, that if I was an atheist I would be a hypocrite if I opposed the Rwanda genocide.
