(May 29, 2015 at 8:28 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Piranhas.
They are known for their voracious flesh-rending attack behaviour, overwhelming their victim with speed and strength of numbers. They do not, however, as a rule, prey on each other, despite the obvious advantages that would suggest and which you have been postulating throughout this thread. Why is that? Are they closet xtians? Or do they have an inbuilt moral sense analogous to ours? Or is there possibly some other reason?
Yep. I use the piranha example often.
I go surfing several times a week in waters that quite possibly have sharks on any given day. If a shark ate me, it is not behaving immorally.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
