Monday, August 27, 2007

Objective Morality

So I noticed this post about Dr Craig's argument for god by Goosing the Antithesis today and it got me thinking so i wanted to jot down some things that popped in my head..
first here is the statement he lays out..

  1. If God does not exist, then there are no objective moral values and duties.
  2. There are objective moral values and duties.
  3. Therefore God exists.

My first thought was the term god could easily be replaced with societies.
  1. If Societies do not exist, then there are no objective moral values and duties.
  2. There are objective moral values and duties.
  3. Therefore Societies exist.
but then I got to thinking some more.. and with this new statement I think it is much easier to see how/where our moral values come from.

I think we could take it a step further and say:

  1. If diversity within society does not exist then there are no objective moral values and duties
  2. Objective moral values and duties do exist.
  3. Therefore diversity within society exists.

It is my opinion that morality is based on society, in addition Objectivity increases as Diversity increases. I'm glad I watched that video it seemed to open my mind as to where our morals come from.

If we look through history we know that when societies began moral values were very different than they are today. But as cultures began to intermingle, and society became more diversified, our "Objectivity" to moral values has also increased due to the increase in diversity.

What a fun little exercise :)

Monday, August 20, 2007

Crazy busy...

I've been quite busy for the past few months with some other priorities... And i must say it is quite difficult to just keep up with all post. (Planet Atheism jumping from 39 to 103 blogs! wow) However, things have somewhat slowed down. After I play catchup for the next few days attempting to read some posts, I'll be posting some new stuff. Also, you might have to bear with me but I'm planning on migrating another blog to this one. It's just too much trying to maintain 2 blogs :)