Reply To: Spiritual atheist.

[PopeBeanie]

– are you saying that values are artificial? Values are human. We take value from physical flourishing, we value a healthy baby, for example. We don’t like to see our house go up in a fire.

Some things have inherent value (at least to life on the planet), like water, food, environmental stability. So perhaps I could have found a better word. By artificial I meant more like man-made, in a social construct context, like one might say the meaning of “race” within a species depends more on local perception and discourse than on empirical discovery.