Atheism can not account for moral truth

The burden of proof is on me, and I will prove that atheism can provide information as to why there is morality in our world. First of all, I would like to point out that Christianity if very utilitarian, as it promotes community building qualities such as sharing, loving, forgiving etc. Why love, share, and forgive I ask? According to Christianity, it is because this is what God demands of us. The 10 commandments are written on our hearts, as a Christian would say. The 10 commandments are the morality which we follow. They provide us with what’s right and what’s wrong. The more people who are happy and who are good the better, and this is what Christianity strives to accomplish. Let’s look at the opposite side of this. If the most people are mad and are bad people, what will this cause on society? There will be more fights, more arguments, probably more wars, and ultimately less peace. Without peace, it is hard to survive in a world and succeed and this is what my argument will revolve around. Now Atheists don’t follow the 10 commandments, so how can they have morality? Let’s think about this and you can realize that inside all of us we have a need to avoid pain and experience pleasure. A baby who is not aware of god, will also want to avoid pain and experience pleasure. A deer that is afraid of a human will run away to avoid any pain it thinks the human will inflict on him. Humans are progressive beings who want to survive. Bad qualities, like murder, and not sharing, damage this basic quality all humans all animals have. Atheists can easily explain morality like this. We all want to survive, and we all seek happiness, and qualities start to form to provide this. A long time ago for example, humans would realize that the best way to create food would be to work together on a crop farm. They want the food to survive and seek happiness, which brings them to do moral things. Basically an atheist will say this; anything that helps human happiness and the need for survival, becomes a moral law in our brain. You see this with animals all of the time. Do animals have a god? No. However they are capable to work together to strive for survival and to avoid pain. They have laws which they follow. Not written laws, but that is not needed. Read this article: . http://www.telegraph.co.uk... Now if animals who do not have gods and can tell right from wrong, why can’t humans do the same, who have much more developed brains? “But Prof Marc Bekoff, an ecologist at University of Colorado, Boulder, believes that morals are "hard-wired" into the brains of all mammals and provide the "social glue" that allow often aggressive and competitive animals to live together in groups. ” This says that at first animals are agressive and competative but there is some kind of social glue that makes animals live together in groups. Why is this? This is simply because they seek survival techniques and to avoid pain. “He has compiled evidence from around the world that shows how different species of animals appear to have an innate sense of fairness, display empathy and help other animals that are in distress. ” This article is interesting as it shows examples of how wolves, coyotes, elephants, diana monkeys, chimpanzees, rodents, bats, and whales all have some kind of moral rules. According to the article these moral rules are formed by: “He claims that these rules help to control fighting within the group and encourage co-operative behaviour. ” Why control fighting? Simple, it contributes to survival. Why encourage co-operative behaviour? Simple, it provides a way to work together to avoid pain. morality: conformity to the rules of right conduct. I am not an atheist, but I have just provided a reason why humans who don't believe in god can conform to the rules of right conduct. What is right, promotes survival and happiness, and what is wrong harms survival and happiness. If my opponent doesn't believe every human seeks survival and happiness, we can have another debate some other time, but this is quite obvious and I dare him to reject it. Rebuttals"Atheism's worldview is composed of the notion that humans are nothing more than matter and motion; and there is no God to establish moral truths"Even if atheists believe that humans are nothing more than matter and motion, everything that exists seek survival, which creates morality. This is why a god does not have to exist for morality to exist. "Atheists can do good things such as donate money to a school. But what an atheist may not do, is claim it was morally right for to donate the money. "This is incorrect. Do unto others as you would like them do unto you wouldn't be a moral law if it didn't provide survival. An atheist can claim it was morally write because it provides the school more potential to survive, and it provides happiness. An atheist may even do this just because he seeks the happiness of being a good person. What is a good person in an atheistic world? A good person is someone who contributes to to basic needs such as survival and happiness. "On one hand atheists will claim that everything is merely matter and motion but on the other hand claim that murder is wrong. These claims do not comport with one another. "They have a good reason to, as murder slows down progression and humans like all animals have a need to progress in order to survive. Yes these claims comport with one another, because all matter seeks survival. "Hitchens claims that "God does not exist. Therefore all people have a fixed moral obligation not to poison everything because. .. " What comes after 'because'? "BECAUSE, they seek survival and happiness. All people, at least most people, have a fixed moral obligation not to poision eveything because they want to survive and if they harm society they will be hurt and slow down the progression, survival and happiness. (jail, death penelty etc. etc. )For example, some kids don't want to get in trouble because they are afraid of their parents. This provides them morality. They know if they punch another kid, they are going to get "a spanking". They want to avoid pain. "Again, in order for an atheist to claim a moral truth he must rely on the Christian worldview where moral truths can be accounted for. "Are animals christian? No. Do they have a moral code? Yes. Why? They seek survival and happiness. ConclusionI have easily refuted the resolution that "atheism can not account for moral truth. "I have easily refuted his arguments. The burden of proof is on my opponent now. He must prove either that humans don't seek survival and happiness, or he must prove that seeking survival and happiness does not create moral rules. If he cannot do any of these two properly my arguments stands and I win this debate. Good Luck!