You might wonder what this article has to do with zebras. Spoiler: they
teach us how pain is not necessary for soul building, even if we allow
for the baseless metaphysical projection of souls from the merely
physical psychology of learning. Unlike Bruce
Springsteen, Zebras are literally born to run.
In his blog post entitled My
Paper on Morality without God is finished of March 1, 2025, John W.
Loftus mentions his visit to Notre Dame
University to meet James Sterba. A
photo accompanying his post shows a reprint of Sterba’s article An Ethics without God
That Is Compatible with Darwinian Evolution (Religions2024, 15(7), 781;
doi.org/10.3390/rel15070781). Religions is an Open Access
journal, so Sterba’s paper is free to read online. (Read it now! I’ll
wait.) The paper overlaps considerably with Sterba’s recent book:
