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Politics : FREE AMERICA
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To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (13978)6/2/2007 1:31:02 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 14758
 
I think many people would still say religion forms their basis of what is right and wrong (even for those people who don't actually know what their religion says- and according to polls, that's a pretty big percentage).

I don't think anyone is saying it's "just" wired in morality. I think what researchers are finding is that certain concepts- like fairness- are possibly wired in, and that various societies work these wired in concepts, usually by using an overlayment of religion. That explains why most religions cover the same well worn moral territory. And of course many scientists suspect that humans are wired for mysticism as well as morality. If you combine those two proclivities you could predit that creatures would evolve mystic systems that comported with their underlying moral wiring- and when you look at comparative religions, isn't that pretty much what we see?
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