Wednesday, 08 July 2009

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  In regards to existential philosophy, there are two types of people in the world. There are those who believe in Divine Creationism and there are those who Don’t.  With the exception of possibly Brandon Flowers, everyone fits into one of these two categories.  Both of these schools of thought are based on theories that have yet to be proven.  Those who Don’t generally subscribe to the theory of evolution, which is a theory based on the strong biological model of natural selection.  Religious people believe in Creationism, a theory which is based on a simple, yet hard-line, mathematical equation:  1 Cross + 3 Nails = 4given.  Both of these theories seem valid (one more than the other, though), but no one in the history of the world has yet to prove that one is the absolute truth.
  

  The truth is that no one knows why we exist, but the larger truth is that our morality has nothing to do with the basis of our existence.  If pious people were to somehow prove that God exists, we still would not be able to prove what her morality would be.  Religions only assume to know what the morality of their deity is.  Have you ever had someone assume something about you without really knowing who you are?  Perhaps they assumed something obnoxious like you were a thug because you have numerous tattoos, or that you liked Nickelback because you were Canadian.  I suspect that things like these may have happened to you, and I also suspect that you felt that these occurrences were rude.  If God exists, who are we to know what she wants or what her intentions are?  She might be Slipknot’s number one fan or think Relient K is full of shit.  It’s disrespectful and arrogant to assume that we know what she likes or what her morality is.  By that same token, if scientists were to somehow prove that evolution was as infallible a truth as Kevin James being unfunny, that wouldn’t automatically default the human species to be an amoral race.  No one has ever been able to prove our existence, but nevertheless, societies have been governed by morality ever since the beginning of civilization. 

  The only thing that is proven is that morality has always been defined by modern society and the contexts of being alive.  This is why we consider homicide for personal reasons to be despicable and warfare for national security to be patriotic.  This is why slavery was a moral economic institution in the seventeenth century and this is why dorks like Oprah Winfrey are considered heroes in 2009.  Smart people and philosophy majors like to ask irrelevant questions like:  Are we products of evolution or Creation?  Is Jesus Christ the Son of God or was he just another black civil rights leader who died from capital punishment?  Are we Human or are we Dancer?  These are all questions that are unimportant to everyday living.  They have no bearing on what morality is.

  But I can’t prove that.

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