“Can We Be Good without God?”
William Lane Craig from the Reasonable Faith website
Having proposed the argument that God is the necessary component enabling mere mortals to embrace objective morality, he next moves on to atheists.
And, as an atheist myself – “here and now” – this seems to be a perfectly reasonable assessment of human morality in a No God world.
Which is not to say that this makes it true objectively.
I am still forced to acknowledge that…
1] objective morality is possible in a No God world but the argument and the evidence demonstrating its existence have not come to my attention
2] the arguments and the evidence have come to my attention but I am not able to grasp them
Here I can only fall back on the assumption that if the argument and the evidence does exist, it would be all that everyone was talking about.
Just as if the argument and the evidence for God’s existence itself were available, that in turn would be all that everyone was talking about.
So, I am in the same boat that you are in: left to base my beliefs on the accumulation of actual experiences that I have had inclining me to go in one direction rather than another. And with no particular font around that is able to settle it all once and for all.
Again, this in turn seems entirely reasonable to me. Morality revolves around biological imperatives that are, in complex and convoluted ways, able to be shaped and molded memetically as human interactions evolve historically, culturally and interpersonally over time in particular contexts understood from particular points of view.
And, thus, our only recourse then is to devise methods – science in particular – that allows us to best differentiate things able to be demonstrated as true for all of us from things that are not.