The Forbidden Fruit
I am not a Christian, I am a philosopher. That being said, it strikes me that to understand what morality is, it helps to begin with the story of the Garden of Eden. First of all, the story of Eden is a myth of origin; and to understand something complex like morality we could start by using our imagination instead of analysing it to death, as we philosophers have done for two and a half thousand years. Interestingly, no one knows where morality came from or how it came about. Many, many philosophers since Plato, and he lived and wrote 2400 years ago, have been fascinated by the topic of morality. They have many theories about what it is, but they have never come to an agreement. In contrast, science is younger than philosophy; it is only 500 years old; but the thing about science is that even if scientists have disagreements, they eventually come around to agreeing on the main subjects. This has not happened with the concept o...