a lot of religious people would make the argument that you need religion in order
to be moral religion teaches morality but now some other researchers at UC
Santa Barbara trying to see if there is a link
between science and morality so they decided to study it
and here's what their hypothesis was the association between science and morality
is so ingrained
that merely thinking about it can trigger more moral behavior
so up in order to study this they first had to see if there was a correlation
and in order to determine the correlation at the found people who are
scientifically minded people who believe in science who like science
and then the show them a scenario or two gave them a hypothetical up a date rape
to see whether they judged the date rape more harshly
than people who are not scientifically minded and what they found was yes that
actually is the case in fact according to the UC
Santa Barbara researchers participants read a vignette
the date rape Edward asked to rate the wrongness up the offense before answered
a questionnaire measuring their belief in science
indeed those reporting greater belief in science condemn the act
more harshly so boom you got a correlation
yeah but does that mean that there is causation
they proceeded to conduct four different studies that found that there actually
is causation
so I they said that showing you words like logical hypothesis laboratory in
theory
should make you think about science and any affect
the presentation at these words has on subsequent behavior can be attributed to
the association's you make
with that category so basically what that means is they primed
the respondents with scientific words and you know
scientific phrases so they're thinking about science and then they're giving
these different scenarios
and based on those scenarios the make decisions as to
whether they're moral or immoral and in most cases the respondents that were
primes
made moral decisions okay so %uh being prime with science related thoughts
increased adherence to moral norms real-life future altruistic intentions
and altruistic behavior
toward end anonymous other so some other person that they don't know
arm I think they're little virus though cuz the people who did the study
are yeah and got a problem with scientific study are usually that by
side
yeah that that is an issue yes so look I think that
you know who I'm bias in this case I I didn't do
a factual study on it but my perspective is I'm agnostic and I'm a huge believer
in sciences
Richard Dawkins was recently saying science is what makes a ship's rock band
spaceships codes would make goods in your medicine it works it works it works
science it works bitches yeah you Richard Dawkins said that you did
examine the case is a former club yes it's true
I gonna buy YouTube I so
I'm worried that and look for for religious folks
there's a lot of great religious people who'd are
deeply moral the help the poor the needy it said I talked about her my heroes
Martin Luther King
earlier in the program even use a referendum the deeply care about these
you could use crisis center
but some religious people do it because they feel like what you've got
isn't gonna punish me for years and eventual God why would I be more
well because your moral like is your decent human being you care about others
and so I feel that if you if your logic
and decency in and science you're more likely to be more 0
then if you only do it because at the sky goddess looking over your shoulder
and will you know burn you in hell forever anything about the you morality
that religion pushes for I mean when you look at some Middle Eastern countries
and some other
penis things they do to women like honor killings they do that in the name of
their religion
I mean is that really moral I mean an example here in the United States is the
Westboro Baptist Church
our date more when they go to the funerals love you know fallen
soldiers and namesake God hates fags and things like that
I mean is that morality so I i do I don't think that you need a religion to
be a moral person I totally agree with you it's about logic
it's about just being a good person you don't need to
will have a faith in order to you know how I mean I think I'm pretty freakin
moral
and I'm not religious somebody for Kenmore I think so that every row D okay
what a quick note on the logic if your logical
it be moral actually gets you more advantages anyway like more people like
you
humans are social animals innopran
in it helps in that process any get so much more back
if you give it's true I mean it's just a matter but if you're not logical and
your
worry about the sky gotta know what he's gonna react to what you're doing or
thinking
well the the problem is that you're not you're not fundamentally reacting to the
sky god you're reacting to the religious authority figure that's over you
so religion doesn't teach you to be moral or immoral it teaches you to
follow the authority figure that's interpreting whatever religious text or
aural tradition they have so in some cases religion can read
roughly two very moral behavior they're the real Christian churches in America
that do great things
you know that sometimes it can cause a guess such a good point
that's why Jesus Christ he did the roads yeah the villages at the time after
about you know whether was a money changer be thrown out temple other
the rabbis in the time that he was against its era because organized
religion just became
listen to the authority figure you say no you have to listen to a higher source
in his case yeah you know we could look at something as simple as the ten
commandments which
probably most device at least for a sitting here I think
we probably do use
most those 10 you know we don't kill anybody you're not no no no I I once
fucked my neighbor's
you for our that no I was really one out I
basic what you're reading too much we proudly say we have around said the
net10
but the question is are we doing it for religious reasons or
reason to believe rather than what you're talking about which
is that we want to live our lives as people that have thinking brains and
there's a lot of good reasons to go ahead and do that
son so if there are couple problems with this one problem though wanna go into is
that unfortunately and look i've was
in poli sci I conducted priming studies like this that talked about morality
religion things like that
fully a problem with studies like this is that scientific studies like this
rarely convince people who don't respect or care about science
a pretty much anything like the likelihood it's like a preseason like
guys sorry
turns out this I
ok it's not mention anything when you really think about it but at least it
reinforces what we are ready new
yeah right and at least there scientific evidence indicating that you don't
necessarily need religion in order to be moral person I love that I love they're
looking into it
there were some issues with methodology here though because they didn't account
for political affiliation
so there is some it you know there's some issue with us the most obvious
thing to include women studies I simply couldn't do that well
China it is always some you can always the biggest I look at the question is
there is there a giant keeping all other political affiliation is a giant gaping
on the site you know I thought
the phrase is OK oh yeah cool thing about my neighbors there there is
up with this custom and human rights to be fair in fact where
for the purpose of Science yeah I did not have sex with my neighbour as well
as I said in my native
I she wasn't anybody's what okay