You know me: It depends on the context. There are men and women who acquire a more sophisticated understanding of many aspects of the “human condition”. From biologists and physicists among the hard sciences, to psychologists and sociologists among the soft sciences. So depending on what you think you know is true they are more or less able to set you straight if your own understanding does not comport with facts that can be demonstrated.
My point on this thread however revolves around “I” in the is/ought world. “I” able to connect the dots in his/her head to one or another God, and “I” not able to. Here there does not appear [to me] to be the sort of expertise among the theologians, we come to expect from the scientists. They have faith in God. And the closest they come to demonstrating His existence revolves more around intellectual contraptions of this sort: edge.org/conversation/rebec … nce-of-god
Here, a mind-boggling 36 arguments!
Over and again: we need a particular context in which to compare and contrast that which precipitates conflicting assessments of, say, moral duty, and then examines the extent to which advocates are able to demonstrate their own point of view. Then we could address to them the point you raise here. Sans that, it’s just another intellectual contraption to me.
Tell that to the hard guys who have been probing these laws now for thousands of years. And, indeed, what they have begotten is the modern industrial world bursting at the seams with simply extraordinary technological achievements.
In contrast, human society and its laws are still all over the map in regard to any number of behaviors. The laws of nature followed by doctors in performing abortions encompass a precision that social laws permitting or prohibiting abortion don’t even come close to. Genes meet memes because the human species is the only one around [on this planet] where that actually has to be taken into consideration. But: what happens when that is taken all the way back to God. Among other things, moral closure, right?
Unless of course I am completely misunderstanding your point.
Sure, maybe. But how exactly would one go about demonstrating that distinction in regard to a particular context? One embedded in a God world, one embedded in a No God world.