It seems to me that GDR's statement below requires its own thread
GDR writes:
if we are the result of blind chance then it is my contention that there is no frame of reference for understanding morality.
It's been done before of course, but maybe we can confine this to why it's impossible for our sense of morality to emerge from the evolutionary processalone. (I'm interpreting GDR's derisive 'blind chance' phrase as a simile for the evolutionary process).
I don't think it necessary to show the development of social behaviour in other species or demonstrate self-sacrificing behaviour in humans, I think we all accept those thing.
The difficulty appears to lie in the assertion by believers that we can't know what right and wrong is without there being a god to tell us. The question is why not?
It seems to me that their only reasoning is because they believe it so.
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