RE: Your personal take on “The Problem of Evil?”
September 3, 2014 at 3:11 pm
(This post was last modified: September 3, 2014 at 3:15 pm by Michael.)
Certainly I believe in a moral law giver Esquilax. Sorry if that was not clear from my earlier posts. But I don't divorce that from actions or consequences; I don't see how we could.
But I still don't agree that evolution explains 'good' and 'bad'. There's nothing in science that says happier = better, using your guide to good behaviours. You have to import that notion from outside of science to try and make the jump from behaviours to morality, to go from descriptive to prescriptive. You need to borrow from the philosopher, or acknowledge a presupposition (we all have them).
But I still don't agree that evolution explains 'good' and 'bad'. There's nothing in science that says happier = better, using your guide to good behaviours. You have to import that notion from outside of science to try and make the jump from behaviours to morality, to go from descriptive to prescriptive. You need to borrow from the philosopher, or acknowledge a presupposition (we all have them).
