@RexRed,
I just watched this video I posted, I posted it before I viewed it because I knew Christopher Hitchens is always a good show.
Frank Turek made some completely erroneous assumptions.
He has earnestly attempted to dumb down the physical world so he can inflate his imaginary God.
How does he know the earth is in itself not capable of evolution all on its own (with the aid of the sun)?
He wants to promote his own Christian deity while robbing the living universe of any power. This is also a sign of religious arrogance.
He says almost like a mantra, like he has spread this idea all over college campuses of "how dumb chemicals are"...
How does he know chemicals are dumb? How does he know the sun is not a living breathing entity? Did the Bible tell him this or is this a hunch?
He insults the sun, earth, chemicals, the big bang, the innate morality of humans, and any other religion that does not conform to his so he can exalt his God and thus deceptively push his brand of morality on the world.
Are chemicals 'smart'?
Yes...
How so? Well it has to do with justice. What is the rudiment of justice?
The answer is 'weight'... Do chemicals and elements have weight? They certainly do. Do ethical matters have weight? They do also.
The same way the human heart, both sides of the brain, weigh and perceive morality, chemicals weigh and create life as a result of their owe interactions .
All because of gravity, like the scales of Libra that long predate Christ and Christianity, they have played an evolutionary part in human development. Chemical are in a realm and gravity is their scale of physical matter. Scales would not work without gravity.
Elements and chemicals have weight and long before humans, chemicals were making judgments and out of those judgments, suns, earths and humans were over time, the product of the "morality of chemical processes".
Gravity and weight had less effect on the lighter elements and consolidated the heavier particles 'til they coalesced into what theologians then usurped and called heaven and earth.
No God was needed to form these particles into planets and stars, only gravity. Gravity was also able to align DNA up using magnetism and selective survival.
Do atheists have morality? All life and matter has the potential for morality because we are made of chemicals and these chemicals pass on their unique ability to weigh matter and detect if one matter is heavier than another. Our brains are also made of these very chemicals.
The problem comes when one tips the scale by adding God to one side of scale. This then creates an unfair advantage and imbalance where sin can masquerade as morality with divine endorsement. This travesty is not only present in Islam but also equally present in Christianity and any other religions that try to dictate human behavior through a fearful and vengeful God.
So it is the addition of God that creates a false judgment and leads to erroneous conclusions. Religion impedes true judgment.
Also Frank Turek (not to be confused with Aspia) asked Christopher Hitchens how he knows his morality is right? I suppose Frank Turek assumes his morality is right, 'because he read it in the Bible'.
The answer is, society. There are many kinds of societies. Chemicals and elements are a society unto themselves. So are bacteria and other lesser forms of life also societies. As the human society we have our own social consensus and for a couple hundred years our society has been built upon secular principles. Each society uses weights and nature to evolve in morality.
This is why our laws have evolved away from crude biblical "morality" that was bred by the religion of antiquities .
Our earth evolved out of the morality of the sun and the elements. We are stardust and this is why we have morality not because of a religion. Our morality is still evolving.
Religions are more likely to de-evolve morality rather than improve on it. Just look at the militant Tea Party's brand of religion, radical Islam and some sects of Judaism and my point and case are made.
This is because religions impose weights where there is no justifiable weight and remove rights on command of their master deity where rights are inalienable and need no justification. As with the story of the kind Samaritan the priests overvalued traditions and used that justification to bypass the inalienable virtue of human kindness.
Religion destroys morality and it is the 'social consensus' of those who are not tainted by this religion that are able to see justice and morality as it truly is.
If you want know morality do not ask a religious person, ask one who does not add religion to the scale to weigh and judge the matters of the heart.
