And that is that God provides the best explanation for objective moral values in the world . If God does not exist, then objective moral values do not exist. Many theists and atheists alike concur on this point. Without God, there is no absolute good which imposes itself on our conscience. Professor Michael Ruse, a philosopher of science and an atheist at the University of Guelph, explains, The position of the modern evolutionist is that humans have an awareness of morality because such an awareness of biological worth.
Morality is a biological adaptation no less than are hands and feet and teeth.
Considered as a rationally justifiable set of claims about an objective something, ethics is illusory. I appreciate when someone says, Love thy neighbor as thyself, they think they are referring above and beyond themselves. Nevertheless, such reference is truly without foundation. Morality is just an aid to survival and reproduction, . . . Or consider the late J. L. Mackie, professor of philosophy at Oxford University and one of the most influential atheists of our time.