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Thread #132816   Message #3007768
Posted By: GUEST,Steamin
15-Oct-10 - 10:13 AM
Thread Name: BS: The 'moral' Atheist?
Subject: RE: BS: The 'moral' Atheist?
Can atheists anything? You see, morality is a form of altruism.

Altruism has been shown to be genetic, or more specifically, a product of genes. We are used to the idea of pack animals, bees, termites, ants etc etc living as a community. Primates also put the community first. Is this religion?   

Is it heckers like.

It is the same phenomenon that causes orgasms. Genes want to reproduce and have situations that engender reproduction, hence lifeforms sometimes work together for the common good whether they think about it or not. Genes, it would appear, are the lifeforms. We are but the hosts.

So, can you have a moral atheist? Yes. We are wired that way. It is this fact that angers God botherers most about Dawkins. He is one of the world's leading lights on genetics, hence the rearguard action as such a learned man is such a powerful enemy of superstition.

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