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Your argument is argued from the assumption that your moral framework is correct. Your argument is essentially nothing more than "If morality is defined by God then without a God there is no morality". This is trivial.
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Exactly right.
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Some moral philsophies state morality is a social construct. Not all of them do. Atheists can believe in an objective and absolute moral framework.
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At some stage in any moral framework created by humans, assumptions and value judgements have to be made surely? Hmm, I might need to read a few of those links, got any ones specific to this issue?
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also, "unique species" is a tautology. pedantry.
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Agreed, but necessary in this thread wouldn't you agree?