Sunday, February 13, 2011
Response to Atheism: The Problem of Morality (bardlishthemagnifico)
"You simply cannot justify morality as nothing more than cultural."
This guy is oversimplifying what atheists believe. I can't speak for all atheists, but morality is both soft-wired (learned) and hard-wired (innate) into us. As far as his claim that atheists believe that humans have no free-will, this is not true. Humans have free-will, but the forces behind that "will" as so complex that we label it as supernatural. Just because we don't understand how something works, doesn't mean that an omnipotent-being must be responsible. Many argue that atheists believe we know everything (some atheists act like to pretend they do when debating believers), when questioned, most atheists will admit that there are a lot of things we don't know. The important thing here is to admit that humans don't understand the forces behind consciousness and freewill, but that doesn't imply any supernatural intervention in the natural world. We must should assume that consciousness and freewill are a product of the natural world, until shown evidence that points to the supernatural (none exists).
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