What's the evolutionary advantage of offering your place to an old woman on a bus?
By RICHARDDAWKINS.NET
Added: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 23:00:00 UTC
Thanks to braininthevat for the suggestion.
Rhetorical questions like this are used as an attempt to poke holes in the evolutionary explanation of morality, in the same way creationists or ID-ists look for "irreducible complexity" in biology.
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