How does Morality come from God

[goout]

The idea that morality flows from the random processes of evolution is a non starter, as morality is the intentional application of the human conscience in concrete situation, not some material “thing”.

If it were the product evolution, we should expect to see the current perfection of it someplace, but we don’t. In each fresh situation of responsibility, morality is again a pointed decision.

 

[Pattylt]

Evolution cannot explain heroic virtue. It cannot explain well any virtues other than those that sustain one’s own life and none that are over and against one’s own life.

Because evolution works on populations, not the individual. Evolutionary morality looks at how morality evolves within groups. If you continually look at only individuals, you will miss the forest for the trees.

 

[SeekSalvation]

To answer the OP question appropriately one must understand the difference between Theology and Philosophy. Philosophy is center around the values man can discern for himself. Theology is centered around what God has infused in one based on Divine Revelation. Take the teaching of virtue for example: Philosophy teaches man, the great philosophers of the day (Plato, Socrates, Apollo) came up with the Cardinal Virtues of Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, and Temperance. But if it wasn’t for Divine Revelations given to us by God, we would have never had an understanding, fully, in the Divine Virtues of Faith, Hope, and Charity.

 

[o_mlly]

Because evolution works on populations, not the individual.

I would think you mean to say say learned interdependence, not evolution, works on populations. One is more likely to assist another if one sees a quid pro quo in the act. That is not heroic virtue; that is not even altruism.

 

[Dan_Defender]

The idea that morality flows from the random processes of evolution is a non starter, as morality is the intentional application of the human conscience in concrete situation, not some material “thing”.

If it were the product evolution, we should expect to see the current perfection of it someplace, but we don’t. In each fresh situation of responsibility, morality is again a pointed decision.

I agree. If all is reduced to matter, then there would be no difference between crushing a rock and killing a person. They would both be dust anyway in the big picture.

 

[goout]

o_mlly:

Evolution cannot explain heroic virtue. It cannot explain well any virtues other than those that sustain one’s own life and none that are over and against one’s own life.

Because evolution works on populations, not the individual. Evolutionary morality looks at how morality evolves within groups. If you continually look at only individuals, you will miss the forest for the trees.

If you don’t recognize the unique conscience and responsibility of individuals to decide and act morally, the collective is meaningless.
It’s both/and.
In any case, it is the unique acting and decision making of individuals that construct a “moral society”.