Friday, January 15, 2010

Why Not Ask God For Moral Guidance?

In my previous blogessay I claimed that we can make moral judgments on which religions are really better or worse, and that the source of this moral judgment is transcendent but not supernatural. How can this be? Before I disclose my answer (if you've read my book The Science of Good and Evil you already know the answer), what's wrong with the supernatural answer? That is, why can't we just ask God? Virtually every believer you know believes that "without God anything goes." There are three problems with this source of moral judgment: (1) Euthyphro's dilemma, (2) Silence, (3) No longer applicable.

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