1. Scientist Finds the Beginnings of Morality in Primate Behavior

Comment #30804 by yehadut on April 9, 2007 at 10:48 pm

If children and the retarded show altruism, why are we surprised when chimpanzees do? Only due to the irrational bigotry by which we lump chimps and snails together as "animals" but imagine a large gap between all of them and humans. Chimps show intelligence surpassing that of children and the severely retarded. They can learn language, solve complex problems, invent and use tools, create culture and pass it from generation to generation. The should be afforded all the rights and regard that we afford humans of similar intellectual ability. If God is responsible for moral sense in humans, God can be responsible for moral sense in other species.