Re: 5 Questions Every Intelligent Atheist MUST Answer

[dazzajim]

Yeah the plain language, non-subliminal, non-pushy approach works a lot better.

I would go further and say that not all of us have evolved to be as considerate as others - we make choices as you say, based on what our parents taught us, and also based on our own mind's development - "I think therefore I am".

Good response!

[sterlingsonego]

keep them safe and give them a better chance of surviving.

[sterlingsonego]

abstract; take stealing for example, someone would have learned at some point that if you take something that does not belong to you it leads to anger and possibly violence. There would have undoubtedly been struggles over food among early humans. So over time it becomes known that stealing is a bad thing, and this knowledge can again be passed on to other members of the community, specifically the children. Of course its in the parents biological interest to teach their kids things that will

[sterlingsonego]

theres an interesting theory about how "the negative" was created in linguistics, Kenneth Burke suggests that it is only because of language that we can even quantify things that are "bad." I agree with you on the basics, it would have began with pain; people would have communicated to each other not to do something because it would hurt, and you can easily see how - as you mentioned - this would get passed on to children. But, we can also trace a hypothetical situation of a moral that is more