RE: Can Darwinism account for morality?
June 18, 2015 at 1:18 pm
(This post was last modified: June 18, 2015 at 1:27 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Which is why asking whether "darwinism" can account for something won't give you the answer you're looking for. "Darwinism" accounts for very little. As a theory of evolutionary biology it is, in itself, incomplete at best...and inaccurate at worst. What -would- we expect it to account for? Taken as far as we could possibly take it, darwinism can only account for the persistence of a trait or behavior in a population...not it's origin, not it's existence. A more complete theory is required for that, and thankfully we have a more complete theory......but......-once we possess this morality business (and it just as easily could have been a morality of "kill every other living thing")-, if it provides reproductive advantage, we expect to see those behaviors more and more well represented within future populations of creatures which pass those behaviors (as they may pass a hereditary trait) on to their offspring.
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