secular based morals are superior to religious faith based morals

Pro made good points, Con will add empirical perspective to those points. For the debate, Con will embrace the “religious” side of this argument. Con takes the position of a deists. That is, a deists believes that God set off the Big Bang but has since remained indifferent to the universe, as God's Laws of Nature is the instructions, or program, defining the evolutionary process of the universe both inanimate and animate. Con uses the scientific method to read God's handwriting--the physical Laws of Nature.Pro made reference to the Bible--man's written scriptures. For atheists and those of us of faith, including preachers, prophets etc, should be careful when studying man's written scripture about God. We must remember man is fallible, and those who study or write such scriptures may misinterpret of what God wants; therefore, God gets--and, in some cases, God help us all (“72 virgins” upon a suicide-killing of infidels, etc.).Getting back to God's handwriting, Morality (the fingerprint of God) is an outgrowth of Unalienable Rights, which is an outgrowth of the Constructal Law, which is an outgrowth of the Laws of Thermodynamics. Therefore, Morality is part of the physical Laws of Nature, not man-made. http://www.amazon.com... http://www.amazon.com... Please bear with me as we take a journey following the traceability path from Thermodynamics (moments after the Big Bang) to Morality. The Laws of Thermodynamics deals with the direction of energy flow. Constructal Law deals with patterns and systems generated by this energy flow as a function of optimization relative to resistance, in the evolution of biology, physics, technology and social organization. At the biological level once alive, “Life,” must have the freedom (“Liberty” in the optimization relative to resistance), in “the pursuit (energy flow) of ” survival; otherwise, there is no life. Since we have life, survival is a form of positive-feedback and a prerequisite for human “Happiness.” Hence, Thomas Jefferson's discovery, which he declared “self-evident” and used the labeled Unalienable Rights representing a polished version of this biological energy flow in his following celebrated statement, “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” The following is a video overview of the Constructal Law:http://www.youtube.com...Continuing with our journey, morality is an outgrowth of life's Unalienable Rights in group formation. The binary values of morality is Right (moral) or Wrong (immoral). The objective of morality is doing Right keeping a group alive. That is, when two or more humans form a group, the group becomes alive. The life of the group is sustained through goodwill and kindness leads to a mutual moral respect for embracing the Unalienable Rights of the members within the group. Goodwill promotes order, stability, and harmony through the pursuit of group-wide positive feedback. Over time, group-wide positive feedback is the genesis of traditions, social values, beliefs (“religious”), language, etc, the norms of society. These norms are tried and tested, and conservatively pass down from one generation to the next establishing its culture. A moral order guides an individual in the prudent exercise of judgment relative to those norms, going with the social flow minimizing civil resistance (Constructal Law). A moral individual in a civil society strives, albeit imperfectly, to be virtuous; that is, restrained, ethical, and honorable, respecting and embracing the Unalienable Rights of others relative to those tested norms. The empirical evidence of the diversity of language, “religious,” and social norms throughout history and today demonstrates morality is the thread that runs through the tapestry in group formation. By the way, throughout the ages, the historical record found not one isolated human culture to be atheistic. This non-atheistic phenomena suggests “religious faith based” norms are associated with life having higher cerebral faculties during the evolution of life. Again, morality simply refers to the binary state of Right or Wrong. These states generate mutual positive- or negative-feedback, relative to the Unalienable Rights of another. Mutual positive-feedback, in group creation, is found throughout the symphony of life, to name a few, in the beneficial formation in schools of fish, flocks of birds, packs of wolves, tribes of humans, and in addition, inter-specie relationships, such as those between humans and their pets. Jefferson's discovery of Unalienable Rights found its way in the design of the US Constitution. This event set off a social experiment, where in a short period of 200-years, changed the world like no other society in recorded history, through the fruits of technology, food production, and medicine, the stables of human existence throughout the world today. A compelling example, of what happens when our Unalienable Rights are morally free to flow, having minimal resistance (Constructal Law), within the awesome machinery of God's nature, the “invisible hand.”The following youtube presentation gives an overview of the US form of governance relative to other forms, and highlights the Constitutional dependency on the populous' “faith based” foundation. http://www.youtube.com...One may see the incarnation of such a Constitution, having the sole purpose of protecting and embracing Unalienable Rights, was the first form of governance to “claw its way out of darkness” (http://www.youtube.com...). The importance of “faith based,” by the wisdom of John Adams, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, stated:“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other” (http://www.john-adams-heritage.com...). Over the last century, the US progressive movement subtly supported “secular based” in favor of “faith based,” relative to public institutions and throughout the government controlled educational system. As pointed out in the youtube presentation our ruling-class no longer follows the US Constitution; fulfilling Adams prediction. Using the US as an example of social evolution mixing science (Unalienable Rights) with a “faith based” foundation, presents a working example of how governance could “claw its way out of darkness.” However, the progression towards “secular based” in the US, appears to have more darkness than the “faith based” light it once had. This next example is a short youtube presentation taking all those “faith based” cultures throughout the world, starting with the familiar tree pattern (Constructal Law), concluding with the “invisible hand” representing the Laws of Nature---the handwriting of God; stressing the absence of human “masterminds,” in the creation of something so simple we all use. http://www.youtube.com...One day “secular based” may be more superior, however, secularism on a cultural level has not yet been achieved or evolved. There were a number of state atheism examples imposed by government to abruptly change the cultural fabric from “faith based” to “secular based,” leaving a trail of blood in its wake, for example, the former USSR (https://www.hawaii.edu...). When the “secular based” stops criticizing the “faith based” and morally learn from it, may advance humanity to the next level. That is, the gradual migration from the power of myth, to the power of science (God's handwriting, “invisible hand”). Until then, “faith based” is “superior” to “secular based.”