Scientists Draw Link Between Morality And Brain's Wiring

A provocative medical experiment conducted recently by neuroscientists at Harvard, Caltech and the University of Southern California strongly suggests these impulsive convictions come not from conscious principles but from the brain trying to make its emotional judgment felt.

In his book, The God Delusion, Dawkins points out other examples of morality being biologically based. The fact that people from all over the world with different belief systems all answer questions of morality in similar ways is a pretty good indication that are concept of good and evil have a biological underpinning. Sort of like our ideas of what taste good and what taste bad. Fatty foods, sweet foods, salty foods are all important to survival and it's not surprising we like those things. Dung beetles on the otherhand surviving on a different diet not doubt have tastes in snacks.





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