[jwalsh07]

Why should morality need to be more than an evolutionary advantage to coexist with evolution?

Morality can be an evolutionary advantage or disadvantage and if only the force of natural selection were in play, it should have been selected out long ago.

But it wasn't. And now morality directs change in ways that natural selection never would. Intelligently, I might add.

Bit of a conundrum there sharp.

[Right Wing Professor]

Morality can be an evolutionary advantage or disadvantage and if only the force of natural selection were in play, it should have been selected out long ago.

Biologists disagree with you. Reciprocal altruism is key to the survival of a social animal. And a moral sense is essential to reciprocal altruism.

[b_sharp]

"Morality can be an evolutionary advantage or disadvantage and if only the force of natural selection were in play, it should have been selected out long ago.

Why? We are still social animals, which is the reason it was selected for in the first place. Take a look at kin selection.

"But it wasn't. And now morality directs change in ways that natural selection never would. Intelligently, I might add.

You'll have to expand on this, I don't follow.

"Bit of a conundrum there sharp.

Not if you consider the reason morals were selected for in the first place.