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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
This makes about as much sense as saying that a random mutation that helps us survive is the only source of religion.
Evolution may be responsible for our ability to reason, or to have faith, but that does not diminish the quality of our reasoning or the power of our faith.
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It makes sense if you think reason can not be the basis of morality.
Before I made the following query:
What is wrong with this statement:
If morality is not based purely on ones self interest, then if someone uses the word morality, right or wrong (in the moral sense) in a conversation withsomeone else, those words can really only have meaning if the communicater and the person being communicated with agree on a common moral code.
The point being that either you agree on a code (like the ten commandments) or you agree on selfishness. Absense that you can have no foundation for morality. You can't reason out morality. Like I said before - why is killing innocent wrong. Absense a selfish argument (ie - if we let innocent people get killed then I am next) you can not come up with a logical explanation of why killing is wrong. You must just agree that it is.
