Seerak, does your admission that you got the only thing that you excerpted from Mr. Kimball’s article wrong, and that you were actually arguing against Dinesh D’Souza, leave anything of worth in your response? It seems to me that until you offer some sort of proof that pure reason produces a morality that is no less humane than the morality taught by Jesus 2000 years ago, it would be wise to hold off trashing Christian morality in favor of the biodetermined version until we can be sure we are doing no harm.

The proof that a morality derived from scientism (by which I mean the ideological belief system that is to science what criticismism is to criticism) has terrible effects is clear and irrefutable (see the Black Book of Communism). The Marxist elevation of Darwinism (likewise a parody of Darwin’s thought) and the Lamarckian/Darwinist “survival of the fittest” to top billing in the morality parade of Communism and other 20th century totalitarian movements also proves that the old saying is right, the best of intentions point straight to hell.

My steering wheel may not be the optimal way to steer my car, but don’t rip it out and replace it while I’m doing the speed limit on the freeway. Why would anyone want to abandon a working morality, which is of critical importance to civilization as we know it, for another purely on speculation?

On another tangent, I find it more useful to respond to the likes of Rorty with a summary of their blather, a loud raspberry.