(June 15, 2015 at 7:03 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Religious or not, we all somehow know that certain things are intrinsically, universally immoral.Do we, really? Does our innate morality shape our culture, or is it the other way around?
If we innately understand that murder is not good, then why did god have to list it as one of his commandments?
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
