at best. Once the party is over, it’s over forever . In John’s opinion, would real moral rig hts and wrongs exist? “No.” According to his naturalistic, materialistic beliefs, if man is merely an advanced life-form in the animal kingdom, John would likely view society’s teaching about right and wrong as cultural, or as the result of some self-preservation genes. John would probably look upon truth as relative ; in other words, always subject to change. “What’s true for you may not be true for me.” There would be no such thing as absolute truth, no definite right or wrong. How could mere atoms stuck together by random chance care about truth? The one exception might be when it comes to science. People like John tend to treat science as sacred. However, John must watch how he expresses his belief that there are no absolutes . If he says, “There are no absolutes,” he just made an absolute statement! If John
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