Toggle the Morals

I've been grappling with evolution for a while, figuring out its ins and outs, so that I know where to hit it in the weak spot and smack it for a six. One thought crossed my mind today: if evolution is true, we are living a delusion. It's a well known fact that evolution and materialism eliminate any real morality. With evolution, certain character traits enhance the survival of a species or individual. So as an evolutionist, you would argue that morality and conscience have evolved to preserve a species. Even so, morality would be non-existent. So for instance, blowing up the world with a gigantic atomic bomb would not be good for species preservation, but that doesn't make it wrong, because there is no such thing as wrong. And yet we have this sense of morality that would define it as wrong to hurt somebody's feelings, let alone blow them up with an atomic bomb. So according to evolution, the sense of morality that we feel is actually a delusion. As it turns out, our sense of morality is one of the strongest arguments against evolution really.