(January 14, 2012 at 7:27 pm)organiccornflake Wrote: If there is a god; than he predates everything that we have. Would it then not be reasonable to assume that he gave them laws too? All cultures would then originate from the root source of laws; god
So you're saying the god gave the other cultures the same moral laws but completely different myths? Except that your favorite myth --coincidentally -- is not a myth but really real?
I don't believe you.
Plus, what you're doing is adding arbitrary ad-hoc suppositions in order to make your position impossible to examine.
So lets see. Chimps have altruistic behaviors. They will, for instance, refuse their own treats if they see an unfair distribution of them. Basically the chimp decides it's not going to play the game if it's rigged. Did a god tell them to be altruistic in chimp-speak? Is there a chimp-bible out there somewhere?
We get out morals from the same place the chimps do. We evolved it. Different cultures express morals in different ways, but the basis is hard-wired.