@@> "THE BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF MORALITY" ?
 
 As with much that science is peering into, we seem become so much
 more a hard-ish wired sequence, than masters of destiny (maybe!).
 
 This month a magazine article (Atlantic Monthly April/98) worded it
 better than I could- (Grossly oversimplified .....SORRY!)
 
 Reduced here to an eclectic essence, the views of "E.O. Wilson" covered
 a great deal more than just morality, examining the entire range of
 "transcendentalism (God/philosophy) vs empiricism (Science/biology)"
 Much of historical inquiry, conclusions and presented views is/are
 examined
 
 FRAGMENTS:
 IS    = natural law (empiricism [of mind]),
 OUGHT = public will (God/philosophy/transcendental [of heart]
 
 ..Theory of Everything, Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Moore, Rawls , Darwin,
 Weinberg, Einstein, Stephen Hawkins, man biologically predisposed to make
 choices, many earlier philosophers did not have the benefit of modern
 science to aid their views, theories, conclusions, .....etc.etc
 
   MAJOR ARTICLE BREAKDOWN:
 * Transcendentalism Verses Empiricism
 * Origins of Moral Instinct,
 * Scientific Approach to Moral Reasoning
 * Origins of Religion
 * Ethics and Animal Life
 * Theology Moves Toward Abstraction
 * A Hunger for Spirituality
 
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 SAMPLE PARAGRAPH:
      "Modern human beings are unlikely to have erased the old mammalian
 genetic programs and devised other means of distributing power.  All the
 evidence suggests that they have not. True to their primate heritage,
 people are easily seduced by confident, charismatic leaders, especially
 males.  That predisposition is strong in religious organizations. Cults
 form around such leaders. Their power grows if they can persuasively
 claim special access to the supremely dominant, typically male figure
 of God. As cults evolve into religions the image of the Supreme Being is
 reenforced by myth and liturgy. In time the authority of the founders
 and their successors, is graven into sacred texts. Unruly subordinates,
 known as 'blasphemers' are squashed."
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 ESSENTIAL CONCLUSION by Mr. Wilson...
    "Ethics and religion are still too complex for present-day science to
 explain in depth. They are, however, far more a product of autonomous
 evolution than has hitherto been conceded by most theologians."
 
 I cannot vouch for Mr Wilson or the magazine, just an article (if I got
 it just right) that sort of agrees with me (novel) and a media willing
 to let him say it in print..... I'm not recommending it. It just seemed
 interesting at my present level of learning and might be of meaning to
 some.
 
                              @@>--- Dave
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