Scientific Morality and Ethics

New Christianity provides an entryway into truly scientific morality and intelligent rational ethics. Gone is the criticism of many atheists that Christians come armed with supersoakers filled with moralic acid.

ATHEISM, GOD, ETHICS AND MORALITY

This group of linked subjects is the nut, the core, the raison d'etré, the very mission of scripture. Atheists call moral principle moralic acid because it implies the existence of God and the corrosive guilt that allegedly causes so much purported mental illness. Atheists do not understand Christianity because if they did they would acknowledge that it is a religion offering an antidote to guilt that would arise anyway, even in an unchurched naive individual. We have evolved to experience guilt. Ethics may or may not imply God, but a uniform, compelling and satisfying ethic that has no reference to God is unlikely and cannot be relied upon through experience with it to influence behavior on a large enough scale to be effective. The key word is "uniform".

Christian evolutionary ethics

Strong Love

This kind of philosophy has as its focus an ideal morality that must be far outside the realm of everyday human boredom. It must grab attention. Christianity satisfies this requirement and by doing so provides a satisfying north star distant enough so that all can use it to orient themselves to each other and achieve equalization. Christianity also promotes maximal prosperous equilibria by faithfully endorsing the strongest possible principle of Love in God's Spirit.

Weak love is biological, narrowly evolutionary altruism in the sociobiological sense. It affects small groups within the same species in a way that might promote speciation by natural selection. It is the mission of Christianity to avoid speciation and to stop random evolution by natural selection. Christians want to stop random human evolution by natural selection because it leads to war, genocide and extinction among other reasons.

If we are to continue to evolve, we must do so by means other than by natural selection. Evolution may not have had any direction prior to Mankind, but it has acquired direction with nature's invention of Us and our invention of tools that allow us to control it. This means that, if we are to avoid chaos and extinction by violent overturn of the global human equilibrium we have no choice but to use artificial selection. This cannot mean eugenics because to avoid turbulence and promote smooth democratic global progress, as progress would be defined evolutionarily, expectations must remain roughly equal, changing globally only incrementally and preferably reversibly. No-one's rights may be abbrogated.

Synvolution must replace evolution by natural selection as the primary agent of change not only in human evolution but in all evolution on Earth. Synvolution is the slow and deliberate induction of change in whole genomes according to a master plan, even if that plan is a fractal blueprint that depends on what has gone before. Before human guided genetic evolution is allowed on a massive and global scale, there must be such a democratically agreed upon humane plan that is guided by the north star of a God. That is, it must respect our own responsibility and authority. That responsibility under such an Authority has dynamic perspectives beyond static natural law. In other words, genetic engineering must never become rogue and it must fit into an appropriate Master Plan. If God can do it, we can do it.