Saturday, November 3, 2007

For Later

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2006/11/02/midmorning1/

I hope the link works. I'd like to puzzle through this at a later date (Once I've finished The God Delusion). Until then, I think this should be interesting to everyone.

Cheers,
Kelly

1 comment:

John Kamman said...

Thanks Kelly, I enjoyed that. Dawkins brings up a lot of hot issues; I can see why people find him controversial. Two points (maybe its just one) that were mentioned in this very briefly and I think deserve(d) more attention:

1. Morality as a product of evolution.
2. Religion as a product of evolution

The selective advantage to both of these, particularly morality, is obvious, I think. I’m reluctant, however, to jump on board with morality being entirely subjective.

Precursors to “morality” can be found throughout the animal kingdom in the form of altruism, but it would be naïve to place value or judgment on these acts outside of evolutionary context. Can the same be said for human morality, human altruism? Any thoughts?