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To: RussP
Please provide me with a reference to the specific, random genetic sequences that produced “morals that say killing is wrong.”

As already stated, it is a meme and not a gene. To process a meme all that is needed is a brain. I'm not sure what genes are responsible for brain development, but I can provide scientific evidence that brains exists.

26 posted on 04/25/2008 12:10:55 AM PDT by Soliton (McCain couldn't even win a McCain look-alike contest)
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To: Soliton

So are you claiming that morality is nothing more than a survival mechanism that evolved at random throughout history?

If so, do you also believe that no absolute standard of morality exists? So, for example, the most hideous torture of a child is wrong only because we have evolved a sense of shame for doing such things — but that sense of shame is really only some kind of psychological illusion?

If you really believe that, you would have been a fine Nazi. All you would have needed to do is to see through that annoying little cultural “illusion” of conscience.


31 posted on 04/25/2008 12:22:27 AM PDT by RussP
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