{"id":376,"date":"2005-10-20T10:14:31","date_gmt":"2005-10-20T14:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/benadida\/2005\/10\/20\/on-evolution-and-the-moral-compass\/"},"modified":"2005-10-20T10:14:31","modified_gmt":"2005-10-20T14:14:31","slug":"on-evolution-and-the-moral-compass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/2005\/10\/20\/on-evolution-and-the-moral-compass\/","title":{"rendered":"On Evolution and the Moral Compass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a414'><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;If you are nothing but an accident of nature, then nothing you do is dependent on objective truth,&#8221; he says. &#8220;You can set your own rules. There is no life after death. There are no set moral codes. If you go to bed, and if you die its OK, you&#8217;re just another piece of matter bouncing around and you&#8217;ll change into something else. That&#8217;s why, even if 100 million scientists say we are unplanned, that we&#8217;re just purposeless beings in this universe, the general population won&#8217;t buy it. And neither will I.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;What is science, and what is not science, is merely a convention,&#8221; he says. &#8220;It can be challenged and changed at will by scientists themselves. And scientists are the products of their culture, too.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If you are nothing but an accident of nature, then nothing you do is dependent on objective truth,&#8221; he says. &#8220;You can set your own rules. There is no life after death. There are no set moral codes. If you go to bed, and if you die its OK, you&#8217;re just another piece of matter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}