The references Subboor Ahmad used in the debate:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. (Declaration of Independence)
“There are no gods in the universe, no nations, no money, no human rights, no laws, and no justice outside the common imagination of human beings.” (Yuvah Noah Harrai, Sapiens)
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men evolved differently, that they are born with certain mutable characteristics, and that among these are life and the pursuit of pleasure.” (Yuvah Noah Harrai, Sapiens)
“Again (Natural selection), it does not prove to disprove moral ontology, it says nothing about it.” Alex O’Connor’s ‘Cosmic Skeptic’ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnOsG…
“Our core morality isn’t true, right, correct, and neither is any other. Nature just seduced us into thinking it’s right. It did that because that made core morality work better; our “believing in its truth increases our individual genetic fitness.”
Excerpt From: Rosenberg, Alex. “The Atheist’s Guide to Reality: Enjoying Life without Illusions.” iBooks.
“Is natural selection so smart that it was able to filter out all the wrong, incorrect, false core moralities and end up with the only one that just happens to be true? Or is it the other way around: Natural selection filtered out all but one core morality, and winning the race is what made the last surviving core morality the right, correct, true one.
Which is it? It can’t be either one. The only way out of the puzzle is nihilism.”
Excerpt From: Rosenberg, Alex. “The Atheist’s Guide to Reality: Enjoying Life without Illusions.” iBooks.
Replay the tape a million times … and I doubt that anything like Homo sapiens would ever evolve again. (Stephen J Gould)
Alister McGrath & Bret Weinstein • Religion: Useful fiction or ultimate truth?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRx2u…
If, for instance, to take an extreme case, men were reared under precisely the same conditions as hive-bees, there can hardly be a doubt that our unmarried females would, like the worker-bees, think it a sacred duty to kill their brothers, and mothers would strive to kill their fertile daughters; and no one would think of interfering. (Charles Darwin)
“Brierley: Ultimately, your belief that rape is wrong is as arbitrary as the fact that we’ve evolved five fingers rather than six.
Richard Dawkins: You could say that, yeah.”
Morality is a biological adaptation no less than are hands and feet and teeth. Considered as a rationally justifiable set of claims about an objective something, ethics is illusory. (Michael Ruse)