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While natural selection is not random, the guiding force of natural selection IS random, e.g. changes in the environment.
Not truly random, you're still weaseling in a false dichotomy that tries to insinuate your position is better without evidencing the thing you claim exists
It is more rational for morality to have come from a preexisting moral standard rather than amoral processes.
You're free to think that, it doesn't make it so without an argument, which you haven't made, so maybe start with that. The "amoral" processes don't have the capacity to think about morality, you're still asserting teleology without a basis beyond your "common sense"
There is much more evidence for dualism than that. In fact, a purely materialistic mind is self refuting.
No it isn't, it's called supervenience and emergent properties. It's experiential, it's not supposed to be purely material in an absolute empirical sense, there's always going to be some foundational elements that we assert for practicality, you're still expecting absolute certainty in any position, which is highly irrational and unrealistic
But if the origin of your brain chemicals is the same as the origin of Hitler's then how do you know that your view of caring about most humans is better than his view of just caring about people he called Aryans?
Because the origin of the brain chemicals is not the same as the result made by thinking about morality, you're engaging in a fallacy of composition now, same as I've already brought up, and others have as well. The ontology of something does not follow to the capacity it has in a holistic sense versus the reductionist angle you're going with (and taking a reductio ad Hitlerum no less)
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The mind of the creator of His image bearers and the universe in which they live certainly would know what is best for us.
Only if you could actually demonstrate it, you're just asserting it, which is pointless, because I could just assert something and justify it by the same nebulous faith basis and anthropocentric presuppositions. Weaseling in intention without evidence is dishonest
What I want is irrelevant, there is strong evidence that there is a perfect moral standard whether you or I want it or not, the objective character of the Creator of the Universe. The moral law of God would say that what you did was justified.
A perfect moral standard could not take variation into account, it would apply universally with no variations or changes possible, in order to actually be perfect. Would that law say so, or are you just happening to agree and that doesn't actually justify your claim of this law existing beyond your assertion and confidence (neither of which are evidence)?
God's moral law is context sensitive both to the temporal context and the ultimate context.
If it is perfect, as you described, it cannot be context sensitive or it is therefore relative and not necessary and thus perfect. If you're just making this up, it's not helping your case at all, it's only showing that you keep grasping at straws with presup nonsense that is circular and question begging about something that isn't evidenced (God), usually because of a false dichotomy or misunderstanding about logic
No, see above. God and His law has our absolute best interests in mind.
Except that's just authoritarian and totalitarian, it demands obedience above thinking, which is morally repugnant because it doesn't care about agency or autonomy in any meaningful sense. You can't simultaneously say you care about free will and then throw it out as essentially evil except in a very particular execution
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Where does this value come from? Why does just having a moral capacity make homo sapiens more valuable than other animals? Sounds like something humans made up just because of their own feelings for other humans.
Wow, more strawman, because I never said that: the mere feeling or capacity to think about morality doesn't make us more special, it allows us to conceive of the idea of value in the first place, which is not necessarily unique to us in the entire universe, it's only assumed with a great deal of arrogance by people who then conveniently posit a creator that is much like them in its general thought process, just "perfect"
It is a social obligation for us to care about each other because it benefits us to have that concern in order for society to continue flourishing as best it can, rather than bending to the will of theocratic sycophants who think they know what's best by appealing to something they rationalize rather than demonstrate with any consistent valid and sound arguments
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