Very good points, and the subject of Sam Harris' recent book, "The Moral Landscape", which gets into that idea in some detail. This Q&A provides a good overview

Very good points, and the subject of Sam Harris' recent book, "The Moral Landscape", which gets into that idea in some detail. This Q&A provides a good overview of the arguments: http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/the-moral-landscape-q-a-with-sam-harris/ http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/the-moral-landscape-...