Now I am completely confused by your position. If you are an Atheist and you do not believe in Darwinian evolution, then how do you explain man?
If I understand your position, whatever is beneficial to you is right, and whatever causes death or misery is wrong? Is that your basis for determining what is right and wrong?
“The term, naked ape, comes from ...”
Yes, I’m very much aware of where the term comes from.
“If you are an Atheist and you do not believe in Darwinian evolution, then how do you explain man?”
Why would I have to explain man? I have little or no interest in origins, and neither I nor anyone else knows what they are, and I have no interest in all the pseudo-scientist’s guesses and fairy tales, anymore than I have in the religious fairy tales. I am not plagued, as most men are, by some crying need to “know where everything came from.” All that is important to me is what is here, and what it’s nature is, which will be the same however it got here.
“If I understand your position, whatever is beneficial to you is right, and whatever causes death or misery is wrong? Is that your basis for determining what is right and wrong?”
Certainly not. That is much more like hedonism than ethical principles. The basis of my ethical principles is the nature of reality and the nature of man. The most important aspect of human nature is volition, the ability and necessity to consciously choose all one does, which means he is responsible for all he does, a responsibility reality does not allow one to evade. That is the basis, but ethics is a very broad philosophical field, impossible to delineate in a few words.
Hank