Does evolution have a affect on morality or society?

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varelse1
trump2020maga1 wrote:

I would say yes. If we evolved from monkeys and are just part of a natural process  then why have morals at all? I mean lots of animals eat there babies and eat each other so what makes us better? This has nothing to do with whether evolution is true or not, it's just to talk about what it would mean for our moral systems if it was.

There is an entire branch of science called "Evolutionary Psychology."

We can look to Nature, and often  find acts of morality, or even altruism.

A wolf will bring a small kill back to its pack, to share with the pups. 

I have seen a cat risk its life, to draw of a pack of pit bulls attacking an old lady.

And a bee will not think twice about laying down it's life, to defend its hive.

hundreds of examples like this, go to answer "why do?"

If your question is more "why should?" then there is an answer for that as well. 

Because there is nothing in Evolution which precludes a Heaven. Or a Hell.

If fact, some say Evolution literally requires such things.

Elroch

The best answer to this question is that morality and society are the result of evolution, and as such are likely to be beneficial to the fitness of the species. To be more precise about that, if there was ever a divergence where ancestors differed in their morality or their society, the versions of these complex phenotypic effects that were most beneficial to fitness would have survived.

This is not as simple as I suggest, but it is certainly true about any genes that are related to the development of this phenomena (in other species as well as in humans - the societies of ants and bees are in some ways more highly evolved than ours, with their specialised epigenetically differentiated variants.

PetecantbeatmeSLFL
varelse1 wrote:
trump2020maga1 wrote:

I would say yes. If we evolved from monkeys and are just part of a natural process  then why have morals at all? I mean lots of animals eat there babies and eat each other so what makes us better? This has nothing to do with whether evolution is true or not, it's just to talk about what it would mean for our moral systems if it was.

There is an entire branch of science called "Evolutionary Psychology."

We can look to Nature, and often  find acts of morality, or even altruism.

A wolf will bring a small kill back to its pack, to share with the pups. 

I have seen a cat risk its life, to draw of a pack of pit bulls attacking an old lady.

And a bee will not think twice about laying down it's life, to defend its hive.

hundreds of examples like this, go to answer "why do?"

If your question is more "why should?" then there is an answer for that as well. 

Because there is nothing in Evolution which precludes a Heaven. Or a Hell.

If fact, some say Evolution literally requires such things.

Good point. Still do not believe in evolution but even a soulless animal can be "moral"

varelse1

MAGA

Your question would be better posed, not as "If Evolution is true--", but rather as "If Atheism is true--".

Because the whole Evolution thing, does absolutely zero, to take a (possibly punishing) Creator off the table.

PetecantbeatmeSLFL

Yeah that's true 

Ziryab

Believing and perpetuating lies, promoting religious dogma over open inquiry, …

These lapses of judgement have an impact on morality. If we understood the science of evolution better, we might do a better job of taking responsibility for our actions. That would improve the general morality.

tbwp10

Interesting. I'm not sure we would. Morality would still be subjective. 

What "lies" are you referring to?