Disagreed, depending on your definition of “morality”. A sufficiently totalitarian God can easily not only decide what is moral but force us to find the proper morality morally compelling.
(There is at least one religion that actually believes something along these lines, though I don’t follow it.)
Ok, that definition is not nonsense. But in that case, it could happen without God too. Maybe the universe’s laws cause people to converge on some morality, either due to the logic of evolutionary cooperation or another principle. It could even be an extra feature of physics that forces this convergence.
Perhaps Eli and you are talking past each other a bit. A certain kind of god would be strong evidence for moral realism, but moral realism wouldn’t be strong evidence for a god of any kind.
Disagreed, depending on your definition of “morality”. A sufficiently totalitarian God can easily not only decide what is moral but force us to find the proper morality morally compelling.
(There is at least one religion that actually believes something along these lines, though I don’t follow it.)
Ok, that definition is not nonsense. But in that case, it could happen without God too. Maybe the universe’s laws cause people to converge on some morality, either due to the logic of evolutionary cooperation or another principle. It could even be an extra feature of physics that forces this convergence.
Perhaps Eli and you are talking past each other a bit. A certain kind of god would be strong evidence for moral realism, but moral realism wouldn’t be strong evidence for a god of any kind.
Well sure, but if you’re claiming physics enforces a moral order, you’ve reinvented non-theistic religion.