Why be good?

[Randy Carson]

I'm headed off to work this morning, but I promise to read each and every post in this thread. I may not respond to ALL of them since there is a lot of repetition.

BTW, I did see the headline at washingtonpost.com regarding the 500,000 year-old murder uncovered by scientists.

Half a million years isn't very long in the evolutionary scheme of things, but still, one has to wonder why we haven't changed very much.

Could it be that evolution doesn't play a role in the development of objective moral values?

If not, where do these things come from? Why be good?

Perhaps there are some answers in the posts I haven't read yet, so I'm looking forward to getting back to my computer later today.

Thanks for all your thoughts, everyone. This is great.