# Morality is natural **URL:** \ **Category:** Religion and Secularism\ **Created:** [June 21, 2024, 12:24pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/morality-is-natural/10925 "2024-06-21T12:24:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 73
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Another way to look at it > [@Naturalism actually is moral](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/naturalism-actually-is-moral/3581): > > So, I’m taking this online course with Richard Carrier, which is mostly reading things that are available anyway, but you get to interact with him too. We’re working through his book, “Sense and Goodness”, where he develops a philosophy for life, including morals. I now see something that’s so obvious, usually that means I’ve just been missing it, but I really don’t remember ever hearing this. That is, when people say, “science doesn’t provide any answers for moral questions”, what they really … And this one, about how centuries of study led us to conclude that everything is natural. It’s not a belief that we begin with as an axiom. > [@We don't say everything is anything](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/we-dont-say-everything-is-anything/10686): > > My old buddy nails it again. His blogs can be long and sometimes hard to follow, but always full of gems. In this one he is addressing “Thomism” but I don’t think that is important to understanding the message, what’s important is how he addresses the fallacies. [Holm Tetens, Dinesh D’Souza, and the Crazy Idea of the Mind Radio • Richard Carrier Blogs](https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/26917) For example, the fallacy that non-believers and scientific thinkers take as a first principle that everything is natural and then build their log… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/morality-is-natural/10925)._