Mankind is a result of organic evolution, Morality is an artificial construct of humans-there is no transcendent moral standard, religion and religious belief/dogma is harmful to human development, religion is antithetical to reason, etc"
Well there certainly is the theory of evolution Tree of Life with the fossil records of human prehistory & ancestry found in many different parts of the planet & up to you to consider them & determine for yourself . There is the more marveous recent DNA research that has been done on human migrations & family tree that just makes the Bible look like a nursery ryhme by comparison to the true lengthy story of man , but that story is the tiniest fragment of time compared to the age of planet . Some people want to hide on a cave on pluto , thats fine a long as they dont expect us all to join them .
There's one underlaying idea one can see all ethical & moral considerations rising out of too , that would be something called beneficial mutual reciprocity. This idea of "do unto others " we find surfacing & expressed on a larger contemporary stage from 500bc , clearly a thesis thats gained expession from Greece to India & over to China simultaneously and quite sure it has its roots going much farther back . Its always interested me that primitive tribes in many cases opted for solving conflicts by more scaled down ritual "mock battles" keeping the casuality rates down , helps minimize greatly preservation & loss of valuable tribal numbers .
So the case for morality laws of ethics rising up out of a combination of reason & natural necessity can strongly be made looking far back to dawn of early human history & as numbers of tribes grow & populations start to swell in civilizations so comes the addition of all that increasing complexity which is mirrored in challenging man's ability to reason out with more complexity , thus supporting a non "supernatural view".
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