Oct 17, 2010
My least favorite claim is that morality has an absolute source in
religion, and that humanity would have no morals if we were
non-theistic. August Berkshire, the president of the Minnesota
Atheists has been studying the morality found within religion, and
the depvelopment through non-religious sources of morality and
ethics. Sociology, social psychology and other social sciences have
examined evolutionary roots of morality as have philosophers. Now
even evolutionary biology has made some interesting discoveries,
suggesting that morality is not necessarily unique to humans. If
non-human animals can be good without God, are humans weaker and
need God?