(July 26, 2014 at 10:15 am)Harris Wrote: Unfortunately, there is no moral code in Atheism, which can provide moral code of conduct to the followers of Atheism. Without having a moral code, people have little or no knowledge about ethics, about right and wrong, good and bad, virtue and vice, etc. if they are good then it is for the fear of punishment. One essential condition for being a moral person is that the agent must have the relevant understanding (or capacity for understanding) of what the external requirements of morality are. Exactly how much understanding is required is not easy to specify if you do not have a moral code.
Allow me to Euthyphro you real quick: is something moral to you because god says so? Could god make a currently immoral thing moral by ordering you to do it?
Quote:You should study some of the work of Thomas Nagel. Maybe he would take you out from your Evolutionary delusions.
Tell you what: I'll actually do that, the moment you admit to the dishonest quote mining you did in your last evolution thread. I believe it was the Darwin quote about the eye that I got you on most recently, I'd like you to own up and admit that you clipped the paragraph halfway through to manipulate the text into saying the opposite of what it actually said. You do that, and I'll read anything you recommend to me.
Here's the post where I called you out, for reference. It's the very last quotation there: your quote from Darwin, and then the rest of the paragraph that shows he was saying the opposite. On the next page of the thread Mister Agenda called you out on another example of quote mining too. You never responded to either of us, for some reason.
Quote:If you have evolved a new type of virus from some existing virus then this is not even close to what theory of evolution is claiming.
Just for fun, do please tell us what you think the theory of evolution is claiming. We'd love to know.
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