PBS’s The Question of God: Moral Law
Where do our concepts of right and wrong come from? Do humans share a moral law that transcends time and culture?
Michael Shermer has appeared on such shows as The Colbert Report, 20/20, Dateline, Charlie Rose, Oprah, and Larry King Live (but, proudly, never Jerry Springer!). He has been interviewed in countless documentaries aired on PBS, A&E, Discovery, The History Channel, The Science Channel, and The Learning Channel. He regularly contributes opinion editorials, essays, and reviews to: the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, Science, Nature, and other publications.
Where do our concepts of right and wrong come from? Do humans share a moral law that transcends time and culture?
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February 20th, 2008 at 4:50 am
What Garbage!!! An immaterial “mind”? Directing our behaviour? In a Universe the size which we believe it is? Is this person NUTS???? What arrogance!
February 20th, 2008 at 7:24 am
PBS is seemingly succumbing to the evangelicals that are so vociferous and running all over the place here in Texas, behind the christian fundamentalist curtain that try to filter out all progressive and free-thinkers; they missed me.
My response is simple.
As there is no god or God, there is no such thing as god’s or God’s moral laws. They evolved along with mankind simply because they worked toward the continued survival of mankind.
February 21st, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Indeed! And Kenneth Miller wants illicitly to introduce design into evolution when we only discern patterns- no intent! He therefore urges backwards causation, the future before the past, the effect befor the cause, thereby negating time[ Weisz].