'Live Evolution' Not Witnessed After All

ICR ^ | March 23, 2009 | Brian Thomas, M.S.

[count-your-change]

My own view, bias if you will, is that we are the product of an intelligent Creator. A Creator that sets the standard of what constitutes “good” and “evil”, and while we can explore the reasons for the standards or how the application of the standards might be made, it is still the perogative of God to issue moral dictates, “you must not murder”, etc.

But a society consisting soley of atheists might arrive at the conclusion that murder must not be allowed for a number of reasons, perhaps on the basis of property rights or something.
But on what moral basis would this society call it wrong? Or anything else wrong or inately “evil” or “good”?

Science has tried to find an answer to that question by looking to a biological evolutionary narative. Perhaps there’s some genetic imperitive in humans and whatever tends to fulfill that imperitive is “good” and vice versa.

Or maybe some sort of wired into the brain concept of right and wrong behavior can be discovered if the workings of the brain can sufficiently elucidated by modern science.
And so on.

The philosophers will...will provide insights into the obvious and employment for university professors.

but as I said my owm bias is toward humans having a Creator that endowed man with attributes He himself posesses, Love, Justice, Etc.,