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Author Topic:   Morality is a Logical Consequence of Evolution, not Creation
New Cat's Eye
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Message 46 of 97 (544783)
01-28-2010 11:30 AM
Reply to: Message 45 by Stile
01-28-2010 11:02 AM


Re: Motivation isn't necessarily directed by instinctual evolution
It seems your focusing on the individual when you should be looking at the population and talking about why it, as a whole, would evolve said features.

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New Cat's Eye
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Message 48 of 97 (544790)
01-28-2010 12:42 PM
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01-28-2010 12:32 PM


Re: Motivation isn't necessarily directed by instinctual evolution
Ok, I get it.
I misunderstood what you were getting at and saw the whole thing with and individual being able to not eat as a a faulty premise, but you weren't using it to conclude what I thought you were.

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Message 96 of 97 (551824)
03-24-2010 11:55 AM
Reply to: Message 92 by Pauline
03-11-2010 1:06 PM


You can't really denigrate things like kindness, humility, and benevolence as logical consequences. Neither can you hatred and anger. These abstract entities transcend logic. Which switches our thinking into supernatural mode. We live in a natural world with something of the supernatural living within each of us.
Some things are hard to explain. That doesn't mean we should jump to supernatural.
Why do my hands sweat when I'm nervous? How could that be an evolved benefit? How does it even do anything for me?
Would you jump to a supernatural explanation for sweaty palms too?

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