re: #504 Walter L. Newton

Not if you have any understanding of science, logic and critical thinking. But that is not the issue on this thread, it’s whether an atheist can have morals, developed apart from any belief in the supernatural.

Of course an atheist can have morals developed apart from any belief in the supernatural. Why is an appeal to a higher power necessary to develop morals? Now, one could disagree with the morals developed by said atheist—or is the question really “can they develop morals that are as good as those developed by the (fill in the blank) religion”?