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The two comments mirror discussions we've had here. That without God, wherefrom comes morality?

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Depends abit on how you define morality. If you define it as a standardized set of ethics/norms that are accepted truths within cultures and for certain individuals, then you don't need the idea of a god to explain them. It is easy to see how they can come about with the partly the evolution of humans and partly the development of culture.

Or to put it context, even within a lair of rats there are social norms for behavior even if their cognitive abilities are far below that of a human being, which can lead us to believe that simply evolution itself mammal species evolving a genepool that is 'biased' towards certain forms of behavior is much more fitted to survival than a mammal species that is not. As species evolve we can also imagine that individuals possessing certain traits have a higher probability of having offspring.

Humans superb cognitive abilities allows us to develop social orders far more advanced than that of other mammals, and since these social can be learned and passed on to the next generation, these social orders don't need genes to survice, only a fitting 'host' in the form of us and our cognitive abilities. With this in mind then cultural bias for certain trends of behavior is also easily explainable.

So there you have a much simplified explanation for morals without a god.