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And for me, that starts with one question:  is it wrong to rip the hearts out of living babies?  Is anything actually wrong?

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An observation and a question.

1. Morality is an adaptive trait.

So morality is just part of the evolutionary struggle for survival.  Morality can be explained by natural selection.  Those humans who treated each other well survived, and those who did not figured out it does not work because they did not survive.

I offered a refutation to the "morality as instinct" alternative earlier, but quickly, think of instincts or human traits as musical notes, and morality as the sheet music.  Morality tells us how and when to play the notes;  it is not the notes themselves.  Further, instincts often contradict each other, and treating other humans badly often betters the ones who behave badly.

2. I agree that god has filled the world with evidence of his existence but not his presence, assuming there's a god.  But then why did he bother with all the prophets and sending Jesus and performing miracles?  If you don't need evidence for faith, why did God give evidence to some and not others?  In your view, the apostles were the least faithful christians that have ever existed.  By definition they had no true faith.

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I have tried to stay away from arguments about particular religions, but as to why God would reveal Himself to some people spectacularly and refuse to speak to some who loved Him dearly (Mother Teresa)...our finite minds cannot grasp infinite intelligence.  But the amount of evidence out there is astounding.  Some events are witnessed by large numbers of people (the miracle of the sun), and many others are experienced personally.  Some can be subjected to scientific study (medical miracles, the tilma from Guadalupe), others are hidden within the moments of death.  But all bits of evidence serve the purpose of allowing us to decide whether or not to believe the evidence.[/quote]

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