Paul Bloom, an extraordinarily erudite cognitive scientist and Professor of Psychology at Yale, has just published a piece on Slate defending atheists against data suggesting that (American) secular types are less “nice” and less charitable than…
One of the most profound accomplishments of the Enlightenment is the idea that a ethics from the ground up can succeed in establishing robust moral principles without the necessary intervention of any kind of objective moral…
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The argument comes up far too often.
Morality requires an absolute reference point. Without God there can be no morals.
But it occured to me today that this parrots an argument made just over a hundred years…
Evolutionary psychology has made further advances at demonstrating that morality requires no supernatural agent. Writes one Christian journalist:
Recent research suggests that we have been wrong, that morality can emerge and persist without religion. Evidence now points…
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