The Problem of Good vs. Evil

What is evil?  What is good?

If I took away the objective standards of the Bible, to me, good and evil would no longer have relevance.  They would cease to exist.  I only have an understanding of "good" and "evil" because I was raised a Christian from birth.  Mom and dad told me good and evil were real, and I believed them.  I still do.

But what if I did not believe in God or the Bible?  Say I was completely non-religious.  Those standards of good and evil would be gone, wouldn't they?  Yet the majority of the human population will say they believe in a good/evil, or at least a right/wrong.  But why?  If there is no objective standard for either, how then can people say good and evil exist?

Science is man's observation of the physical world.  Science cannot explain thought or human behavior.  Any honest scientist will say the origin of our universe is pseudo-scientific  because no one was around to observe it.  Detectives aren't scientists, but many scientists play detective when trying to explain how we got here.

It's amazing how important the origin of everything is to people.  What does it matter, in the long run?  Are we so passionate about proving the other side wrong that we will go to such lengths to determine whether the universe exploded into existence or spoken into being?  It shouldn't matter, should it?  Somehow, we got here, and we are here now, and we'll never stop arguing.  God vs. No God, Good/Evil vs. No Good/Evil, Science vs. Religion.

Can one put science and religion in the same arena?

One is a method of observation and explanation.  The other is a method of practice and belief.  One is fact-based.  The other is faith-based.  The two are completely separate, no matter how much we try to say God is scientific.

If God could be proven scientifically, we would have done it already.  The circumstantial evidence IS there, but after however many thousands of years, we're STILL arguing over who's right.  Are we so completely stubborn that we can't accept that no matter who's right, NOTHING WILL CHANGE?  We'll STILL be here, sharing the planet, and TRUTH will STILL apply to everyone.

Truth is the same for all people.  I can say that because that's the definition of truth.  If you say truth is different depending on what you believe, you aren't talking about truth.  You are arguing not with me, but with the entity of semantics--the very MEANING of the word "truth".

How the universe got here is a millenia-old argument.  It's bigger than any of us, yet we somehow think we're going to come up with the magic bullet that will put the whole debate to rest.  It staggers the mind how passionate some people get about it.  I still wonder, What does it matter?  Why focus so much on a past even that no one witnessed, and instead prepare for the future our descendants will witness?  How could that possibly determine what's "good", and what's "evil" when both standards need to be objective anyway?

I say there is no good or evil if and only if there is no deity.