Listened to this on the way to work on Monday - had to stop listening when I arrived at 9.15, but listening to it again now.
Well worth a listen as they touch on this topic.

Start the Week on Radio 4

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006r9xr



Aside: Loved it when one of the contributors mentioned women in burkas:  Women who live their lives in a cloth bag under coercion.


SAM HARRIS
Science can tell us how people ought to behave and address moral questions, according to the neuroscientist and philosopher Sam Harris. In his book The Moral Landscape, he argues that ?Just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim algebra, we will see that that there is no such thing as Christian or Muslim morality. Indeed, I will argue that morality should be considered an undeveloped branch of science.?

The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values is published by Bantam Press.