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Is There a God in the Animal Kingdom?
If there isn't any god, then what makes slavery and torture among human beings uniquely evil? How to these strange, non natural moral properties come to supervene upon the members and actions of our species? This question is especially pressing when we recall those two implications of naturalism, namely materialism and determinism. It's impossible that something that is essentially a puppet or a machine can have a moral dimension to its actions. Finally, on atheism, there just is no moral accountability.