Posted on 09/28/2009 8:33:23 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
Are humans born to cheat? What do Americans think about marital infidelity? Those who oppose the practice of adultery often base their arguments on religious prohibitions. Others, confident that religion is worthless, or worse, turn to science to support their contentions that monogamy is not biologically “natural.”
The ABC News television program Nightline is currently running a series on the Ten Commandments that “explores the biblical commandments from [a] modern-day perspective.”[1] The fourth installment of the series looked at...
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Ping!
I haven’t read the article, but the title begs the question: “How can science trump morality?”
It does if the married researcher has a thing for his cute assistant.
Science can explain why we have the urge. But that’s not justification. Unless you think humans are no more evolved than paramecium.
Conceivably science alone can justify anything. The Nazis used science to justify murder. Science in the absence of morality is the Road to Hell.
Of course humans are born to cheat. And to lie. And steal. And murder. It’s called original sin. How we control those base impulses is what counts. Obviously some of us are having better success than others.
Humans are born to sin. There’s only one treatment to help with that.
Let’s see...does it fall under a “Thou shalt not”? Hmmm...looking...looking...Well! There it is! “Thou shalt not commit adultery”. Looks pretty black-and-white to me.
And the score...The Lord Almighty, 1.....assorted blasphemous fools, zippo.
No, but that won't stop people from trying (and claiming to have done so).
Science tells what the world _is_. Morality says what the world _ought to be_. Studying the first can never get you to the second, as I've seen even thoughtful atheists admit and agree.
I thought the goal was NOT to behave like animals.
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I wasn’t aware that science answered morality’s questions. One is based in fact. The other is founded on faith.
Science is itself based on faith.
It’s an excuse.
“man is merely an ape without fur” ???
You creationists kill me daily making a cartoon version what you oppose and knocking it down. Creationists that only read creationist sources, will swear this nonsense that you make up, is really in science class. Please creationists, read your kids textbooks and see if it really says “man is merely an ape without fur”
You cant be this gullible.
you nailed it!!!
I haven’t read the article, but the title begs the question: “How can science trump morality?”
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When you do read the article, you will find that there is nothing in said article to suggest that ‘science does trump morality’, there is nothing is said article to suggest that science justifies adultery, in fact, I really cannot find the point of the article at all.
Biological underpinnings to our behavior is NOT a logical precedent to adultery being a biological imperative.
Scroll to the 5:00 mark or you can watch it all!
Chimpanzees have no concept of property, and don’t live under the rule of law.
Speaking from the perspective of a seasoned, but recovered cheater, there is no justification for it, least of all some biological predisposition.
If we take it to an extreme and suggest that the emotional and social baggage could be dispensed with as society “matures,” there are logistical issues that would come into play.
If I fooled around on my wife (even with her permission) and eventually decided I liked my new partner better, my old partner because a financial burden I have no real reason to hold on to.
Inevitibly, even if the impulse to feel rejected or hurt in the case of casual sex outside the marrige was removed from the scenario, it’s unrealistic to imagine that logical consequences of this behavior would not leave emotional and financial scars in the long term.
The fact that this is even being debated blows my mind. The future these people would have for us is one where everybody is in it for himself, and the nuclear family is reduced to an anachronism.
I don’t know about you guys, but when I’m ready to shuffle loose this mortal coil, I want it to be with my devoted family at my bedside, and bathed in the satisfying glow of a life well-lived.
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