Randy,
You asked in this or another thread if I was seeking "the truth." The answer is that if by the truth you mean some vast cosmic truth that explains everything, I am not. I want to believe true things and not believe false ones. How much time I spend trying to decide what is true and false depends on the importance of the fact. China's current GDP, for example, doesn't hold much current interest for me.
What makes us want to be good is an interesting question, but your answers depend on the highly improbable, so I move along to the more probable and rather more mundane answers which have to do with physiology, culture, and evolution. I'm not sure the answers are perfect just much more probable than god.
You asked in this or another thread if I was seeking "the truth." The answer is that if by the truth you mean some vast cosmic truth that explains everything, I am not. I want to believe true things and not believe false ones. How much time I spend trying to decide what is true and false depends on the importance of the fact. China's current GDP, for example, doesn't hold much current interest for me.
What makes us want to be good is an interesting question, but your answers depend on the highly improbable, so I move along to the more probable and rather more mundane answers which have to do with physiology, culture, and evolution. I'm not sure the answers are perfect just much more probable than god.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
