Morality! Thorn in Darwin's side or not?

You're making religious arguments in a science thread. Should we therefore conclude that your objections to an evolutionary origin for altruism are religious?--Percy

Hi Cedre,It looks like you're pretty much out of ammo from a scientific standpoint, so since that leaves your thread in dire straights topic-wise I suppose it wouldn't increase the damage much if I raised the rhetorical question of how you explain the fact that atheists hold human life just as precious as religious people.One might even argue that atheists place an even higher value on human life, since it's the religious who are always all hot to go off and defend democracy by bombing [fill in name of most recent country to have caused us offense] back to the stone age.--Percy

One of the definitions of common: While that isn't the intended meaning in the phrase "common sense", when we see that phrase used around here it sure seems like it should be.--Percy

I don't think Cedre is purposefully mischaracterizing or misconstruing your arguments. Once the light bulb goes on I guess the principles of group selection seem obvious, but there's a lot that has to be understood before one reaches that point.--Percy