> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Doug Pensinger
... > Let me ask you this, Dan. If morals/ethics are purely a matter of > faith, and the "rules" as set forth by a god, why aren't they constant? > Why are slavery, human sacrifice, infanticide, child labor, the > subjugation of women etc. etc. ethical in the past, but unethical now? > We are discussing gay marriage in another thread. Is it unethical in > your opinion? They change for the same reason that the rules change for children as they grow up -- the same reason that the U.S. Constitution is different from the Magna Carta and the Code of Hammurabi. > I see our morals evolving before our very eyes, don't you? The existence of evolution, whether in biology, morality or whatever, doesn't rule out the existence of God, does it? Who is the more intelligent creator, the one who creates things that cannot evolve, or the one who creates those that can? As a programmer, I'm quite sure that writing evolutionary code is a lot harder than writing the static kind. Nick _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
