In your worldview, pain and suffering are simply chemical reactions taking place in a bag of chemicals. Why would that be wrong?
- Simple. You are denying that people are sentient, can feel emotions and pain resulting in suffering. This has nothing to do with your precious. In fact, using the Bible like this makes it into a book of damnation.
When baking soda reacts with vinegar do you get upset? Do you say that it is morally wrong?
- Since when are sentient human beings to be equated with a bag of chemicals unless the hold to the Bible. It's thinking like this that perverts conscience and permits horrors like 'religious' wars. Any religion that encourages or permits killing is perverted and evil.
Your view of morality does not comport with your view on origins.
- The bible is not the sole arbiter of morality. In fact, it is easy to show the immorality of some Biblical tenets. Except that there are idiots who cannot/will not face up to the truth about the Bible and it's use as an intrument of, and justification for torture and murder. The Bible means what people WANT it to mean. Objectivity doesn't enter into the case.
In my worldview, people have intrinsic and objective value, since they are made in the image of God. It is because the Bible is true that we can call pain and suffering "bad."
- Just as easy to argue that the Bible has been used to justify causing pain and suffering - things that you call bad.
In the evolutionary view, they can never be more than chemistry.
- This is utter stupidity. How about Descarte's proposition: Cogito, ergo sum (I think, therfore I am) and the implied, 'I don't think, therfore I am not'? Clearly you are not doing much thinking.
