Michael Shermer - The Science of Good and Evil (2004)

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People believe in God because we are pattern-seeking, storytelling, mythmaking, religious, moral animals.

Michael Shermer

My thesis is that morality exists outside the human mind in the sense of being not just a trait of individual humans, but a human trait; that is, a human universal.

Michael Shermer

To be a fully functioning moral agent, one cannot passively accept moral principles handed down by fiat. Moral principles require moral reasoning.

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