If what you say is 'truth'.......?

Question

we evolved from animals, well then how did 'WE' and not they come about having a 'moral compass'...Shouldn't they have had it first thus passing it to us?
We know animals do not- because of certain behaviors they exhibit without sorrow or remorse for what they have done ..
Example- one animal will eat another and the only thing it feels is 'full'..
A dog will chew up it's masters couch quite happily without remorse...
A crocodile will eat a human child and care not for the devastation it has wrought...so on and so forth...
We all know animals can be taught things and they can learn..From us - not vice / versa..
They have no remorse, sorrow or regret for thier actions , but we do...
And if you're going to say ' Well we developed that over time"
Rubbish - Men indeed would have gone extinct....
Legit , sound answeres accepted , trash will be kicked to the curb.

Paulo - way to go ! Funny no one answered me ..
All I see is rubbish ....And I never claimed to be religious...Duh - ...lol....

I know God created everything.....
Is this all you got ?

" Sigh "......

Answer 1

This scripture in the Bible disproves the theory of evolution....it's interesting....it will knock the theory off its feet!

"But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.
There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory." (1 Corinthians 15: 38 - 41 KJV)

You can read the NIV, NASB & RSV for greater clarification.

Our all-wise God has put this passage in His Word to discount all the lies of evolution, more than a thousand years before Darwin's lies took shape! Hallelujah! Glory to our Creator God!

Answer 2

Who is to say that animals don't have a "moral compass"? The examples that you give mean nothing.

"one animal will eat another and the only thing it feels is 'full'.."
So do you after eating a hamburger. You do know that you are eating a cow, right?

"A dog will chew up it's masters couch quite happily without remorse..."
The same as you would chew on a piece of gum. The dog is chewing on the furniture out of boredom, not malice.

"A crocodile will eat a human child and care not for the devastation it has wrought...so on and so forth..."
Have you ever heard of veal or lamb. Those are baby animals and you don't seem to have a problem with that. I mean c'mon, eggs.

You do not know what is in that animals mind anymore than you know what is in mine. I have never seen an animal rape another animal, or vandalize, loot or show bigotry and hate like man does.

Answer 3

How do you know that what we call morality isn't really based on our instincts for individual and communal survival? Those are instincts that animals have but would have been enhanced in humans due to our superior intellect. Remorse is tied to guilt and is a learned behavior. Society through family and religion teaches us what to feel guilty about and it varies from culture to culture, evolving over time. It also requires abstract thought, something not present in animals.

EDIT - If you're going to be closed minded and dismiss any answer you get as "rubbish" that disagrees with your preconceptions, then why come here and ask questions? It seems like a waste of time.

Answer 4

1) There is evidence of morality and altruism all the way to the insect world, so I have no idea what you're on about. (1) Especially in chimps we see social structure, tool use, remorse, ethics. How expressed any of these are is directly related to cognitive ability, so it's not surprising we see it most clearly in humans.
2) We learn from animals all the time. Apparently you've never had to survive in the wilderness for extended periods. The animals will show you where water is, when predators are about, and how to find shelter, among other things.
3) None of the scenarios you list are inherently ethical in nature. Should I be sorry for killing broccoli to eat? What about the animals that die during planting and harvesting? Your line of reasoning is what is rubbish.

Answer 5

I eat animals and all I feel is full. I'm sure many of us have eaten animal offspring before and not cared about the devastation it caused. Hyper children will chew up their couches quite happily without remorse. None, not one, of your arguments are relevant, therefore I'll just say that morals came about due to survival instinct and leave it at that.

Hell, we keep and abuse animals before we eat them. Where is our moral compass?

Paulo, what's the theist doctrine? An intelligent being was created from nothing by random chance, and that being created us. You're just needlessly adding a ridiculous term to the equation.

Answer 6

We didn't just evolve from animals, we are and have always been animals. The ability to have morality comes with having developed the most intellectuality advanced brains in the animal kingdom.

Do most people have remorse when animals are shot, skinned, chopped up, wrapped and put into grocery stores?

Answer 7

Something else that man does but no animal, and that is the need to worship!
Animals have never shown the urge to build shrines, or offer something to another object for some mystical sake.
Only man will automatically spend their entire existence adoring something that makes him feel better, or bigger, or more perfect than what he really is.

For the record I'm actually giving that as an example as to why man was put here by God and not to be mixed in with the animals.

Answer 8

God said, "Let us make man in our image and in our likeness. And God done so, He created us perfect, complete, powerful, having dominion and authority over all that He had made and gave unto Adam one command, "Thou shalt not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil for in the day you do, you shall die!" Adam transgressed and brought the curse of sin and death upon the entire human race and now instead of being perfect, righteous and pure in nature, mankind became sinful, devilish and full of evil to where He had to destroy mankind by the flood. Yet God saved the righteous man Noah and His family and the righteous lineage would bring about the birth of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the whole world. And as Christ gave His life a Ransom. through His death, those who call on His name would be given the perfection, the pure and eternal life that was once stolen from Adam! But those who reject Christ, also reject the life that Christ died to give them..

Answer 9

Other species have the same kind of self-imposed codes of behaviour as we do. They co-operate, they care for each other, they display affection and compassion and so on. Read the research. The *only* way morality can exist is that it comes from evolution.

Answer 10

animals are ANIMALS! God create us in His image, thus why we have a 'moral compass' and we feel remorse, sorrow, guilt, happiness....among others.
I also agree with the poster before me. Animals do have a sense of guilt, sorrow, remorse...especially if they are very close to humans.

God Bless