08.24.09
‘Morality doesn’t equal God’
The Darwin faithful are on the attack against Wright, whose confusions over evolution and morality are still not kosher with the Darwinian literalists.
Myers relieves himself of some Nietzschean impatience:
Nope, says I. First, there is no moral law: the universe is a nasty, heartless place where most things wouldn’t mind killing you if you let them. No one is compelled to be nice; you or anyone could go on a murder spree, and all that is stopping you is your self-interest (it is very destructive to your personal bliss to knock down your social support system) and the self-interest of others, who would try to stop you. There is nothing ‘out there’ that imposes morality on you, other than local, temporary conditions, a lot of social enculturation, and probably a bit of genetic hardwiring that you’ve inherited from ancestors who lived under similar conditions.
Actually, the above is not true, and potentially disastrous as a general public belief; or else misposed around the idea of a ‘moral law’, from Moses to Kant.
Beyond that the ‘ethical’ dimension of the universe, totally invisible to Darwinists, is all-pervasive for those who care to look.
The truth is that we are barely intelligent enough to withstand the stupid smarts of Nietzsche, let alone resolve the tantalizing fragments of Kant and his transcendental idealism, which mediates the idea of freedom (the real point of morality) with that of Newtonian causality.
It is an interesting trap for redutionists: to assert that there is no moral law. Where is the proof?
Lisa A. Shiel said,
August 25, 2009 at 7:38 am
The atheistic evolutionists denounce morality because they have no evolutionary answer to how such things could exist. Besides, admitting humans have the innate ability to distinguish right from wrong, and in fact define the difference (through more than “self-interest”), makes us different from the rest of the animals. Atheistic evolution cannot allow that.
Lisa A. Shiel
author of The Evolution Conspiracy
http://EvolutionConspiracy.com/
Darwiniana » Blind to morality said,
August 25, 2009 at 1:54 pm
[...] Comment on Morality doesn’t equal God Lisa A. Shiel said, August 25, 2009 at 7:38 am · The atheistic evolutionists denounce morality because they have no evolutionary answer to how such things could exist. Besides, admitting humans have the innate ability to distinguish right from wrong, and in fact define the difference (through more than “self-interest”), makes us different from the rest of the animals. Atheistic evolution cannot allow that. [...]
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August 25, 2009 at 2:12 pm
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