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How do you construct a moral framework with science and statistics? I'm not saying it can't be done, but I would like to hear how you think it is possible to do so, and how you think we ought to go about it. I have thought about it a little, but I don't see an obvious way to go about it. That is to say that how you would go about it is not obvious to me. I don't very well understand what you are imagining.
The following are just ideas you might use as a jumping off point or an example. I don't expect you to answer all of the questions or anything like that, that would be unreasonable. I don't have a problem if you don't touch any of these examples. Just explain how you think we ought to approach this. How would you change the law with respect to murder or assault? How would you change the tax code? How would you change law with respect to financial institutions? How would you resolve the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians? Why is religion impeding us from making these changes?
I'm concerned you seem to imply here that we require some abstract deity to determine what our moral guidelines should be. Take the following hypothetical: if it was proven tomorrow beyond any reasonable doubt that no deity exists or has ever existed and all religious texts were hogwash written by crazed lunatics, would it be ok then to go out and do whatever you felt like, whether that was murder, robbery, or something else?
In other words, is it solely a belief in a deity that is keeping you from going out and committing extremely immoral acts?
To answer your question though, you would use philosophy, of which science and statistics play a role, and common sense. It doesn't take a genius philosopher to figure out that maybe we shouldn't randomly kill other people.
No. That was not my intention. I'm trying to better understand where and why you (or anyone) think religion is holding us back and how we can move forward.