[Stone Mountain]

Btw, just where does an Atheist derive their moral compass of what's "right" and "wrong"?

The rule of reciprocity, or in Christianity, the "Golden Rule" is generally a good moral compass. This precept predates Christianity and can generally be found in one way or another in just about every moral code, religious or secular.

More links, info about this at:

http://patriot.net/~bmcgin/underlyingrule.html

[Liberator]

"The rule of reciprocity, or in Christianity, the 'Golden Rule' is generally a good moral compass. This precept predates Christianity and can generally be found in one way or another in just about every moral code, religious or secular."

I don't doubt or question the existence of a "Golden Rule," or "moral code," -- but from whence did it fount?

And from what source?

If we accept that a "moral code" has been inately implanted into our psyche, does that then preclude a creator of the principle of creative design?

This is why every metaphysical characteristic of man -- and explanation thereof -- invariably leads back the Creationism.

Without a Creator, how can the immaterial world of "good-bad"; "right-wrong"; "beauty-ugliness" exist without "programming" from a Creator?