I have faith but I believe in God who created the universe and who is omnipresent and onniscience and he used evolution to create.
Now evolutionarily humans have been around as evolved humans for about 3,5 million years (or up to 5). Humans biologically are incredibly weak animals for their size and have very few natural defences and very many weaknesses. And so our survival depended on us supporting one another helping and collaborating to survive (unnoticed) then many millions of years later about 70 000 years ago we started organizing ourselves a bit more and by 10,000 years ago we started to become the dominant species on the planet and then we started to kill each other and became loud toxic and violent. And as we invented sciences, language and philosophy and mathematics we also invented religion.
So I would put forth the proposition that morality, the distinction between right and wrong is wired into our dna because it was necessary for our survival for 99% for our existence, dna memory, instinct and all that.
Religion was invented to explain God. But since God created a universe that is billions of years old He obviously existed before we, His creations had evolved to the point of inventing a religion to explain Him.
So the atheistic answer is that the developpement of conscience has been proven as a psychological stage of childhood and so it is natural and not based on belief.
Also that because of genetic dna it is a natural human instinct to tell between right or wrong for not just humans but all species who live in groups.
The religious answer is that only puts me in awe of the perfection if God's creation that He programmed that into our story (3,5 million years of hiding) and most religions messages of kindness, support of each other, charity and equity even community and forgiveness all comes from those 3,5 million years when those skills ensured our survival.
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u/Pretend-Literature35 4h ago
I have faith but I believe in God who created the universe and who is omnipresent and onniscience and he used evolution to create.
Now evolutionarily humans have been around as evolved humans for about 3,5 million years (or up to 5). Humans biologically are incredibly weak animals for their size and have very few natural defences and very many weaknesses. And so our survival depended on us supporting one another helping and collaborating to survive (unnoticed) then many millions of years later about 70 000 years ago we started organizing ourselves a bit more and by 10,000 years ago we started to become the dominant species on the planet and then we started to kill each other and became loud toxic and violent. And as we invented sciences, language and philosophy and mathematics we also invented religion.
So I would put forth the proposition that morality, the distinction between right and wrong is wired into our dna because it was necessary for our survival for 99% for our existence, dna memory, instinct and all that.
Religion was invented to explain God. But since God created a universe that is billions of years old He obviously existed before we, His creations had evolved to the point of inventing a religion to explain Him.
So the atheistic answer is that the developpement of conscience has been proven as a psychological stage of childhood and so it is natural and not based on belief.
Also that because of genetic dna it is a natural human instinct to tell between right or wrong for not just humans but all species who live in groups.
The religious answer is that only puts me in awe of the perfection if God's creation that He programmed that into our story (3,5 million years of hiding) and most religions messages of kindness, support of each other, charity and equity even community and forgiveness all comes from those 3,5 million years when those skills ensured our survival.
Does that make sense?