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   Dave in Lake Villa to All   
   Re: Naturalistic basis for morality   
   26 Aug 07 06:28:04   
   
   From: DaveInLakeVilla@webtv.net   
      
   'I was wondering if anyone could recommend any books which provide a   
   naturalistic account for our moral intuitions (ie. what is it that gives   
   us our basic moral urges/concience?)   
      
   "Why do you think they are 'given'? Weren't they taught to you ?   
   Steve M"   
      
      
   REPLY:   Can you then tell us how rocks, dirt, and hydrogen gas   
   ultimately blessed us with a moral conscience, ability to analyze   
   ethical systems, intuition, love, reason, rationale, et al...  for,   
   this is what you have to have FAITH in to be an atheist .   
      
      
      
      
   Quote from Sir Arthur Keith, a noted anthropologist and devout Darwinian   
   Evolutionist : " Evolution is unproved and unprovable . We believe it   
   because the only alternative is special creation, and that is   
   unthinkable"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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