Morals without God?
Just so you don't think it's all crocheted toys around here, I read this article yesterday, from the The Stone, over at the New York Times. It’s quite interesting (though perhaps moreso to me because I did my Honours research on the behaviour of a social mammal), as it twists a little from where I thought it was headed towards the end.
The argument therein poses no problem to my own beliefs, because he writes like religion invented God, only recently, and God wasn’t there when the primates were rising up out of the primordial swamp, which is not the way I see it. He also posits that because primates demonstrate social consideration, therefore God need not be the source of morality (because once again, the primates were about this before "religion" existed), but unless of course God also created the primates, which I believe he did, whether that's with or without the process of evolution.
However, here's a little segment from near the end:
It is impossible to know what morality would look like without religion. It would require a visit to a human culture that is not now and never was religious. That such cultures do not exist should give us pause.