If we accept evolution, then where will we get our morality?

[Loudmouth]

If my memory escapes me correctly, I was asked to provide a non-scientific answer for these meandering streams found here, there, and elsewhere.

You were asked for an explanation, and you gave us a made up story instead.

 

[bhsmte]

If we accept the theory of evolution, then how will we be able to live as a peaceful society of people? Obviously, once evolution is accepted, bibles will be seized and taken from us. Then after that happens, people won't be able to read the bible to know how to behave properly, because the bible is the book that taught us it's not good to live in a society where all court cases are settled via gladiatorial combat.

Breaking news!

The majority of the world accepts evolution.

 

[AV1611VET]

You were asked for an explanation, and you gave us a made up story instead.

You were given a hypothesis, a pet theory, an assumption.

And again, if my memory escapes me correctly, it satisfied the requirements in the OP.

What was your answer to the OP, by the way?

 

[Loudmouth]

You were given a hypothesis, a pet theory, an assumption.

And again, if my memory escapes me correctly, it satisfied the requirements in the OP.

What was your answer to the OP, by the way?

We were given a made up story, not an explanation.

 

[AV1611VET]

We were given a made up story, not an explanation.

Given that some think Jesus walking on water was a made-up story, I think I'll try not to lose any sleep over it.

 

[Gottservant]

Get with the program!

I said Grand Canyon Erosion, generalizing it to a law that has non-specific applications is irrelevant!

 

[justlookinla]

Breaking news!

The majority of the world accepts evolution.

What kind?

 

[crjmurray]

What kind?

The biological kind

 

[justlookinla]

The biological kind

There's lots of varying sects within evolution of the biological kind.

 

[sandybay]

I am open and respectful to all beliefs and ideas. That's why, if someone genuinely wants to live in a world where every morning you need to dodge Molotov cocktails on the way to work while a band of mutants with Mohawks chase you in a jeep with the intention of capturing you and selling you on the human slave market, then that is their right, and I respect their opinion.

But what about the rest of us? What about those of us who still want to live in a society where murder, theft, and jaywalking is illegal?

If we accept the theory of evolution, then how will we be able to live as a peaceful society of people? Obviously, once evolution is accepted, bibles will be seized and taken from us. Then after that happens, people won't be able to read the bible to know how to behave properly, because the bible is the book that taught us it's not good to live in a society where all court cases are settled via gladiatorial combat.

How do evolutionists plan to live in such a Godless world?

Is it really worth the cost? If so, then I hope you know how to wield an axe or a broadsword, because that's exactly the kind of thing you'll need after the atheists rediscover the use of black magic and create an army of unicorn pirates.

Three quarters of the world do not seem to have any problem finding morality without the Bible.

Would you say that the Christian USA was a good country to hold up as an example of morality?

 

[justlookinla]

Three quarters of the world do not seem to have any problem finding morality without the Bible.

Would you say that the Christian USA was a good country to hold up as an example of morality?

Is the killing of the unborn moral? How about the killing of the born?

 

[PsychoSarah]

Maybe the Grand Canyon wasn't formed by erosion?

Issue with the flood idea: if the Grand Canyon was formed by a flood, shouldn't there be far more areas just like it?

 

[AV1611VET]

Issue with the flood idea: if the Grand Canyon was formed by a flood, shouldn't there be far more areas just like it?

I would assume so.

The Grand Canyon, however, was not formed by the Flood.

 

[PsychoSarah]

I would assume so.

The Grand Canyon, however, was not formed by the Flood.

Ok, so you don't think the flood made it, and you don't think that erosion made it... so you think an earthquake or something made it?

 

[PsychoSarah]

Is the killing of the unborn moral? How about the killing of the born?

The bible doesn't suggest that it is immoral to kill them, with god even killing the newborn child of someone to punish them, and that was a believer. If anything, the bible values the lives of children and the unborn far less than the lives of adults.

 

[AV1611VET]

Ok, so you don't think the flood made it, and you don't think that erosion made it... so you think an earthquake or something made it?

It was created when God pulled that single landmass apart, created in Genesis 1 and called "Eden" by God and "Pangaea" by Bible-sterilizing scientists.

Genesis 1:9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

Genesis 10:25a And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided;

 

[PsychoSarah]

It was created when God pulled that single landmass apart, created in Genesis 1 and called "Eden" by God and "Pangaea" by Bible-sterilizing scientists.

Genesis 1:9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

Genesis 10:25a And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided;

If that pulling caused it, there still should be more Grand Canyons.

I don't think divided means cracked like an egg in that context.

 

[AV1611VET]

If that pulling caused it, there still should be more Grand Canyons.

Not necessarily.

I don't think divided means cracked like an egg in that context.

Then you tell me, in your opinion, when Eden was split into five continents.

 

[dad]

Issue with the flood idea: if the Grand Canyon was formed by a flood, shouldn't there be far more areas just like it?

I would suspect it is a post flood lake suddenly released for whatever reason, such as an ice dam broken or whatever.
The same sort of thing is likely seen with formations such as some badlands. One in Canada, for example where a swath of land was cut out, leaving a big area called the badlands..where the dino fossils are.

 

[dad]

I don't think divided means cracked like an egg in that context.

Yet some scholars do. Some include that in the events of things split or divided in that time. It also fits the fossil record and other evidences. Some things just had to happen post flood to make sense.