-Moral Standard In All of Humanity-

You are asserting that there is a single absolute moral standard.The evidence is that this is not so: different cultures have different standards, and different people within every culture have different standards.Evidence: gay rights, abortion, stem cell research, euthanasia, etc. We even have some people that think medical treatment is immoral.Conclusion: We know that such an absolute model or standard does NOT exist. Two reasons. One is the false absolutism asserted (and invalidated above), the other is an assumption that what you want to be (an absolute standard) would only come from your version of what god created.Enjoy.

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False.Any group that produces more babies than it needs will have enough to pass on the genes whether it kills some or some of the surplus die from other causes (especially ones eliminated by modern medicine)Infanticide has been practiced down through the ages, and has not stopped either the cultures of the time or the progress of human population to cover the globe.A group that produces too many young for parents to take care of will have sickly and malnourished children. When this happens in nature parents decide which child gets fed - better to have one survive than none. This behavior has been selected for ...Babies that have parents that want them will have better provisions for their future and will be better able to survive.Don't misuse evolution to support your belief on what is moral -- evolution isn't moral or immoral it just picks what works.Enjoy.

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I can agree that SOME is genetic and selected -- the fact that we are a community species shapes the way we feel about being in a community. I would expect tigers to have a rather different moral basis for behavior re killing and respecting others - if we could communicate with them.But we also have and evolved and selected behavior component - behavior that is taught and passed on that is beneficial to the community and therefor selected as well (what Dawkin's calls "memes"). We can see examples of selected behavior in other animals, particularly in the way that they learn to obtain food from their {mothers\elders}. This is part of the problem for releasing zoo animals into the wild: they don't have the learned survival skills in spite of their genetics. Again, this selected behavior is what has worked in the past to the benefit of the species for reproduction or survival.Religious cohesion could well be one of these factors. It would allow larger groups to interact, with all the non-religious groups being eliminated by the religious wars (leaving us now with wars between religious groups). The question is whether we can evolve a behavior mode that supersedes the religious ones.That comes down to showing that the moralities of the various religions are different and similar. Showing that where they are similar is NOT because religion {X} or {Y} had the answer right on the multiple guess test, but that there are compelling logical reasons for those standards -- for a community species to adopt (and obviously the differences are less consequential - if not irrelevant - to the whole community of humans).Where do genes leave of and behavior mechanisms take over is not yet well defined.Enjoy

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