We are the same as animals, size, that's why we see morality in animals. The philosophical approach to our existence as the top of the food chain is superior to the scientific. You have this incredible gap between the smartest animal and the smartest human. We feel bad if a kitten is thrown out a window in the middle of an intersection. This happened to my wife in our town and she burst into tears and felt the urge to hunt down and administer justice to the killer for an instant. Our morals come from the animal kingdom yes, but that's not a full explanation. It's like a 1/1000 explanation actually. Many systems of spiritualtiy have a better approach to the idea as to where our responsibility lies.
Don't you not believe that we have a choice? If we are just particles moving around and there is no director then what goes is what goes. You are as far as your strength can take you. There is one thing we may not have a choice in and that is to love. And the people who extort you and use it against you will always be out there. They don't even have to be in large numbers to get a whole populace of lovers paranoid and making irrational decisions.
Yes, the scientists do want to explain the universe because they work in the industry of hope. They tell us that things are going to get better because technology has always been on the upswing. The Democratic Left is constantly telling us that our energy needs are right around the corner with wind and solar, but what happens when the technology becomes available? China steals the manufacturing so we loose control right there. Then the equipment needs installation and is very expensive up front. So then you have to have these bureaucracies figure out ways to get them into people's homes who can't afford it. In the meantime they are telling us that we are ruining the earth because we use bottled water.
You don't think people are not putting their faith in science today? They are trying to help and they are helping, but we need to understand this universe on a spiritual level. When you have 5.5 billion people believe in God you best call that supply and demand or fear what they will do. The fact is that the atheists have made their bed and now they are sleeping in it.
Then you got the Republicans who glorify suffering through 20 jobs and giving up your life in order to "make it." For some reason they want to withhold technology from the general populace because they think it makes them lazy. It's like you can't win with these people. Who cares if they are on their iPod's they are living aren't they? Let them do what they want, but make sure they have morals and principles. The world is their oyster so the old timers just need to sit back and watch the younger generation go to work.
The law of righteousness can be applied to the sciences of politics and economics and all kinds of things. It has a legitmate place in this world it's just a lot of people misuse the term and give it a bad name. That's what the atheists should be focusing on. Find the good aspects of all the ideas about God and call that righteousness. Because it's already been mapped, we don't have to map it again.
-Sab
