Challenge - Scientific reason for being moral.

[Captain Scarlet]

The only people who work on ethics and morality who believe its the product of the divine are those whpo are religious to start with, ie they have something to prove. Therir reasoning is fragile and circular, and resorts to god is good by gods nature, which means absolutely nothing and is a fallacy of ambiguity. Ethicists who do not subscribe to theism, do not invoke god and have developed many theories on the development of morality and ethics (eg contractarianism is one such example ). Some new age M-theorsits also believe they have a germ of an idea where morality comes from; if its true we are all connected in some hyper-dimensioanl reality then harming others is nfact harming ourselves. Who knows what the answer is. They all beat the god hypothesis hands down on 2 counts:

1) occams razor - it can't be shown that these hypotehsis are any less right than an invocation of a god, but can be shown to to be simpler
2) these alternative hyposthesis have causal mechanisms which are testable or potentially testable as the maove from hypothesis to theory. God is never testable.