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If There Is No God
townhall.com — So, while it is not possible to prove (or disprove) God's existence, what is provable is what happens when people stop believing in God.
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- custal, on 08/29/2008, -0/+7Ah, yes. The old and tiring "without a god, there's no morality" non-argument. Buried.
- gordonj, on 08/29/2008, -0/+6agreed, buried as religious spam.
- ApokalypseNow, on 08/29/2008, -0/+7Indeed - ethics have evolutionary advantages, in that the groups that have them tend to survive better as a whole. This can be seen in various apes, monkeys, wolves, and other animals. Obviously, no belief in the supernatural is required for the existence of morality.
- gordonj, on 08/29/2008, -0/+5It's nothing simple game theory can't explain, while the only explanation for biblical morality is the absolute will of a deity. What's more is that culture has clearly evolved since the bible was written, and many points of right and wrong are no longer applicable. I don't think there's anything wrong with eating shellfish, but I can understand that in biblical times, eating shellfish may have been bad because of potential illness. Thus not eating shellfish was a useful survival strategy. At that time, I believe the moral code was also derived through interactions between people and their environments, just like is is today. For societies or communities to exist at all, certain survival behavioral traits have to exist amongst the members, or it won't become a stable strategy for very long. The messages in the bible were certainly a valuable code for survival to some people thousands of years ago, and some of them are certainly still valuable, but it is also clear that society has developed immeasurably since then, and we need to update them for today's society.
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