RE: Atheist moral code
March 4, 2015 at 11:47 am
(This post was last modified: March 4, 2015 at 11:48 am by Faith No More.)
(March 4, 2015 at 10:55 am)ChadWooters Wrote: Survival of the fittest hardly qualifies as a moral principle.
In all the time you've spent on atheist forums, I know you know the difference between accepting evolution as a biological mechanism and accepting its tenets as moral principles. Just because the moral conscience was a result of evolution does not mean it has to follow evolution's guidelines.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell