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How can mere chemicals produce love, purpose or concepts or right and wrong?
Many social animals also show traits that seem akin to love, purpose, and concepts of right and wrong. You have stated in another thread that you don't believe other animals have souls. So how do you account for love, purpose, and concepts of right and wrong?
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Morals then just become a matter of ones opinion.
This is false. I am an atheist, I believe that there is no God, that the material world is all that exists. And yet, I have found myself doing things against my own narrow self-interest, sometimes gladly, sometimes with great reluctance, because I was compelled to do what I felt was the moral thing to do. Morality isn't just someone's opinion. It is a deep feeling that is partly innate and partly taught.
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Everyone is doing what is right in their own eyes.
This isn't necessarily the fault of evolution. This is the result of the dominant ideology of extreme libertarianism and hyper-capitalism, practiced by people like Ken Lay and the folks at Enron. Funny how the Religious Right (at least here in the US) gives its political support to a capitalist ideology that is based on selfishness and a lack of moral commitment.
The main problem with this argument is that just because you think that evolution leads to unpleasant conclusions has nothing to do with whether it is true or not. Evolution is judged to be valid based on the evidence that supports or refutes it. How you feel about the consequenced is, regrettably, irrelevant.