The Human Animal (Humans)

by David Turell , Saturday, August 15, 2009, 01:48 (5371 days ago) @ dhw

I would link it to my earlier question, which I will now modify: why do some people care about their fellow creatures, even sometimes acting against self-interest, while others don't? - > again if it is not intuitive to everyone, it can't be integral to our humanity. And there are plenty of cases where even people from the same family have different moral attitudes, so it's not just a question of upbringing either. - 
Think about this. Either we are designed or we are the result of contingent chances. In either case evil appeared. On one side we can blame God, and study theodicy, looking for excuses; on the other side evolution brought the evil. So why are the newly arrived neo-atheists saying we must blame religion for most of the evil in the world, as one religion fights with another. If evil is here either way, it is due to freedom of choice, and some folks feel free and unconstrained and are evil and perform evil events. We can blame religion or evolution equally.