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Is God Necessary for Morality?

In the Arena: The Debates and Lectures of William Lane Craig

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Is There a Basis for Morality?

An objective basis for morality would be a fact about the world that is true independently of what human beings believe about the world, and that is true universally across the planeto. Ase: If robots velope sentience a then we would have an obligation not to cause them pain. Any rational creature on the planet is a creature to whom we have certain kinds of responsibilities. And then finally, the capacity of a the rational capacity that we have to understand these facts about each other. But if god didn't exist, none of those facts would make any difference. He says they could have evolved different they could have turned out differently. So i'm not a specis. I think that

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