"To what should we attribute this moral progress? Understandably, most
people point to religion as the primary driver, given its long
association with all matters moral. But the evidence shows that most of
the moral development of the last several centuries has been the result
of secular forces, and that the most important of these are reason and
science, which emerged from the Enlightenment."
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-shermer-bending-moral-arc-20150127-story.html
A look at the biology of good and evil. After listening to this podcast, do you still accept that humans have "free will" regarding morality?
https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/the-biology-of-good-and-evil
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