Challenge - Scientific reason for being moral.
September 21, 2010 at 12:08 am
(This post was last modified: September 23, 2010 at 9:33 am by Mr Camel.)
A Christian friend of mine has set me a challenge –
He says I need a scientific reason for being moral and for living by the secular humanism philosophy. He believes I must have no reason other than a scientific one because I use science to rationalize my claims about the existence of any deities.
I’m not sure how to answer this because I haven’t yet explored it properly. I’m not entirely sure if there really does have to be a scientific reason... I mean... I guess so. But how would I go about answering this?
On spot, I said my scientific reason is because it works... and it’s been proven. Because helping others works for the benefit of my own race and has proved equally beneficial for myself.
He didn’t seem to think that was valid... he didn’t even give me a reason why. Of course, I’m not simply thinking my argument isn’t valid...
I would like to be able to build a better argument...
He says I need a scientific reason for being moral and for living by the secular humanism philosophy. He believes I must have no reason other than a scientific one because I use science to rationalize my claims about the existence of any deities.
I’m not sure how to answer this because I haven’t yet explored it properly. I’m not entirely sure if there really does have to be a scientific reason... I mean... I guess so. But how would I go about answering this?
On spot, I said my scientific reason is because it works... and it’s been proven. Because helping others works for the benefit of my own race and has proved equally beneficial for myself.
He didn’t seem to think that was valid... he didn’t even give me a reason why. Of course, I’m not simply thinking my argument isn’t valid...
I would like to be able to build a better argument...
"We need not a God; just another human being to give life a meaning. For people are truly all people have" author unknown
