Thursday, March 20, 2008

Moral evolution

I don't see how you escape from the evolution issue. Either we fully evolved or we didn't. If there was a break in evolution in which God suddenly put in the "morality", then this is a denial of evolution. Perhaps you could give a time at which we were gifted with morality? Was it after the neanderthals? Was Homo erectus moral? Maybe God gave morality to Ramapithecus?

There is a similar denial problem with Natural Law as a source of objective morality. It is either Natural (so applies everywhere) or it doesn't. Some parts of the universe aren't protected from gravity, so why should they be protected from some universal moral law?

There are major implications if one asserts some universal principle like objective morality.

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