Akula:" evolution supports conventional morality".
Before we go to it, please define
conventional morality
and..
(unconventional morality?)
Also, can you please give me an example of
conventional morality ( as you define it )
in evolution
in the animal kingdom?
You can substitute ethic for morality ( one is Greek the other Roman;
PS surprising how quickly two totally different cultures,
by culture language time and location,
the Greeks and Romans ,
yet have come up so quickly, on their own?
with a different word for the same concept.
Explanation?
,
TA
Message #927 from Akula at Sep 21 1999 8:26PM
Please spare us! Evolution may say that we are one step above Koko the gorilla as opposed to one step below angels but it does not reject morality. Evolution actually supports
conventional morality to a surprising extent. Furthermore, I completely reject the idea of a degredation of morality and a rejection of the Judeo-Christian ethic. Today 50% of
people claim to go to church. In colonial New England the percentage of religeous devotion was about 20% (incidentally, that was the rate of unwed pergnancy.) There simply
has not been a moral decline in the world. And even if there was, don't blame it on evolution's "look out for number one" because evolution doesn't support that. |
