(December 19, 2014 at 3:50 pm)Lek Wrote: Our morals come from God. Moral relativity is among people.Unless you stone adulterers and people who work on the Sabbath, god is just as much a moral relativist as anyone else. If you want to say that these things are good because god decreed them, fine. But it's clear that even god does not promote the idea of objective morals. Unquestioning obedience based on blind faith doesn't make for a particularly strong set of morals, either.
"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."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
