Morals - explanatory

Connections List
 * For Christianity
 * Good people
 * Problem of Good
 * Christianity Explains
 * Ethics
 * Aquinas 5 ways

Two semi-distinct arguments thus far:

1) We all agree murder is wrong, even if evolutionarily is might be the most expedient. Where did this come from? This is an explanatory argument

2) Absolute moral law can only come from a being greater than us, and greater than society. This is an argument by definition. If we deny lawgivers, and therefore laws, there must be some other source to determine correct behavior. Either there is nothing, and ethical/evolutionary/behavioral science simply helps us predict what people will do, or else we all for some reason ascribe to "progress" which is futile.

3) Aquinas 4. If it can be said objectively that something is "good" to some degree, then how did it aquire this quality? There must be something it is compared to. I think in common speech this is not a good argument. We may define "good" relative to some objective, not absolute moral stuff.