Summary

An absolute morality can actually be defined scientifically (it is just really difficult).    When a grounds-up, scientifically based approach to defining morality is taken (based solely on the underlying driver of natural selection – maximizing the number of grandchildren), a moral framework emerges that is robust, internally consistent, and (importantly) matches our feelings and intuition about what is right and wrong.   Furthermore, this absolute moral framework doesn’t require the intellectual sloppiness (and cultural ambiguity) of invoking a divine being to be the judge of whether something is moral or not.

Process

Underlying axioms and provisional beliefs:

• Evolutionary Psychology
  • Evolutionary psychology underpins the concept of primal beliefs
  • It can also be used as the basis for an absolute morality