Why People Can Be, and Are, Good without God
If you have come this far, you are probably a sincere searcher after the causes of human morality. You want to know if people really can be “good for goodness’ sake.” So, to help you find out what has been learned on the subject, we herewith provide the following list of helpful resources to get you started.
Online Articles
“The Human Basis of Laws and Ethics” by Fred Edwords
http://www.americanhumanist.org/humanism/morality.html
"Cross-National Correlations of Quantifiable Societal Health with Popular Religiosity and Secularism in the Prosperous Democracies" by Gregory S. Paul
http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/2005/2005-11.html
Brains Are Hardwired to Act According to the Golden Rule
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080321131055.htm
We Help Friends Due to Empathy; Relatives Due to Expectation of Reciprocity
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080321114214.htm
Consideration For Others Stimulates Positive Behavior
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080321113541.htm
Money Buys Happiness When You Spend on Others, Study Shows
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080320150034.htm
Good Behavior, Religiousness May Be Genetic
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070405170133.htm
"Emory Brain Imaging Studies Reveal Biological Basis For Human Cooperation," Science Daily, July 18, 2002
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/07/020718075131.htm
"If It Feels Good to Be Good, It Might Be Only Natural" by Shankar Vedantam, Washington Post, May 28, 2007
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/27/AR2007052701056.html
"Rats influenced by the kindness of strangers," NewScientist.com, July 6, 2007
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19526115.100-rats-influenced-by-the-kindness-of-strangers.html
"Societies worse off 'when they have God on their side'" by Ruth Gledhill, UK Times Online, September 27, 2005
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1798944,00.html
"Religious Belief & Societal Health - New Study Reveals that Religion Does Not Lead to a Healthier Society" by Matthew Provonsha, Skeptic, September 2005
http://www.skeptic.com/the_magazine/featured_articles/v12n03_are_religious_societies_healthier.html
"U.S. divorce rates for various faith groups, age groups, & geographic areas," ReligiousTolerance.org
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_dira.htm
"Baptists have highest divorce rate," The Associated Press, December 30, 1999
http://www.sullivan-county.com/bush/divorce.htm
Books
The Neuroscience of Fair Play: Why We (Usually) Follow the Golden Rule
Mirroring People: The New Science of How We Connect with Others
Mirrors in the Brain: How Our Minds Share Actions, Emotions, and Experience
Moral Minds: The Nature of Right and Wrong
Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved
The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule
The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
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