RE: Does Atheism Lead to Nihilism?
March 12, 2015 at 8:42 pm
(This post was last modified: March 12, 2015 at 8:44 pm by bennyboy.)
(March 12, 2015 at 5:36 pm)SteveII Wrote: However, we all ACT like there is objective morality. Baby studies indicate that we are born with a rudimentary moral sense.No. We don't ALL act like there is an objective morality. Most of us do. And the reason we do is that this intrinsic morality is really just a social adaptation-- it's how our species has survived and thrived. Obviously, the instinctive actions of members of a species, and the emotional motivators that mediate those actions, are going to be common, in varying degrees, to all members of the species.
Also, you have to understand that our judgement of WHAT is moral is based on those instincts, so we have a circle: we are familiar with our own feelings about things, and call them moral. Then we discover that we have those feelings about things, and call ourselves intrinsically moral. But that means about as much as discovering that we have hair, or that most of us have ten toes: it's just a description of what it is like to be human. There's really no room for "so God" in there.