As a deist, what is your source for maintaining proper morality?
Logic. Or do you mean something else?
Just paralleling the conversation with the Cynic re: the need for religious texts to dictate morality. Logic is all that's needed.
I'll also add that whatever we have created is made of only things that nature has produced.
Or what some other intelligent being produced...
Maybe. But I'm not ready to place total belief in that "maybe". Safer bet to go with what is known. A Creator of any kind just isn't needed in the equation.
Our monkey brains
We have human brains.
You know what I mean. Our brains are still advancing, we're still inching towards more truths. Streamlining the process by eliminating numerous "maybes" would be a good idea.
have simply re-arranged it to be shiny or do something fanciful. Also consider the mind-bending time frame since whatever kicked it all off happened. Takes a long time to evolve to the point where you want to make shiny doo-dads and watch TV.
I am not sure what your point is? Also, do we have evidence of evolution for all species on earth, like giraffes?
The evidence for evolution is tangible, even though incomplete. There simply is no evidence for intelligent design. The point is that we're still in the process of development, always will be. At the moment, we've paused to do a lot of useless practices and some major ones. As time goes on, hopefully the infatuation with making and being entertained by trinkets will pass to make way for more productive gains.
My son and I were joking about the Super Bowl and how so many people get the fever over it, but scientists and other discoverers don't even get a nod. He was wondering why there was no Super Bowl for Scientist. The best answer that I could give him was that people are just more interested in other things.. namely playtime and religion, which I didn't name, but I think that's a problem.
Ideally for me, Science, Philosophy and Art (the roots of worthy cultures) would be society's main interests. Playtime (which includes religion, even abstract religions such as pantheism) and trinkets also fit in, but just not as priorities.