RE: Your personal take on “The Problem of Evil?”
September 3, 2014 at 2:34 pm
(This post was last modified: September 3, 2014 at 2:38 pm by Michael.)
Hi Knight.
I would hold to moral standards being real and, yes, that we are called to live by those moral standards. This is the 'law written on hearts' in scripture. And so the point of that is that God does, I believe, speak to all.
I don't find evolutionary arguments speak to 'good' and 'bad'. Because science doesn't deal with 'oughts', I don't find much of substance in science about 'morality'. At most science engages with 'behaviours'. There's nothing inherently 'bad' about murderous behaviour. Indeed it is common in biology. So when people talk about evolution of morality; I rather see something that is talking about evolution of behaviours that has had to be separated from any notion of there being real 'good' and 'evil'. It is not morality as understood by philosophers across the ages. The philosopher, the poet, and the theologian are exploring something that is largely outside of the purview of science. I say those things as a scientist who loves science (I just don't see science as the only way we ever know anything).
I would hold to moral standards being real and, yes, that we are called to live by those moral standards. This is the 'law written on hearts' in scripture. And so the point of that is that God does, I believe, speak to all.
I don't find evolutionary arguments speak to 'good' and 'bad'. Because science doesn't deal with 'oughts', I don't find much of substance in science about 'morality'. At most science engages with 'behaviours'. There's nothing inherently 'bad' about murderous behaviour. Indeed it is common in biology. So when people talk about evolution of morality; I rather see something that is talking about evolution of behaviours that has had to be separated from any notion of there being real 'good' and 'evil'. It is not morality as understood by philosophers across the ages. The philosopher, the poet, and the theologian are exploring something that is largely outside of the purview of science. I say those things as a scientist who loves science (I just don't see science as the only way we ever know anything).
