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Amoral Atheism Part 2

Jeffery Jay Lowder | May 29, 2014

Physics cannot justify why anything is morally right or wrong. No one says that is a defect of physics because that’s not what physics is about.

Like physics, atheism is also not about morality. So why should it be a defect of atheism that it cannot justify why anything is morally right or wrong?

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