Chimpanzees
France de Val
Hello Rabbi,
I was recently exposed to Professor Frans de Waal’s books, Chimpanzee Politics and Our Inner Monkey – where he proves that chimpanzees/animals also have natural morality.
Don’t these facts weaken the evidence for the existence of God – from morality?
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On the contrary, if anything I would say it is strengthening. God caused even creatures without choice to act morally.
Perfect answer!
In one fell swoop you managed to:
– challenge the fact that moral behavior requires some connection to ”choice”,
– show that evolution has sufficient explanatory power for the existence of morality, which completely eliminates the need for divine morality or any metaphysical source for morality in general, and also
– create a situation in which it is impossible to distinguish between a creature that has “choice” and one that lacks it, which casts serious doubt on the existence of such a thing at all.
Bravo. What more can I add.
🙂
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