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  1. I have never seen any convincing case for a "Universal Moral Law" and the fact that people disagree about pretty much everything, minus a few basic ideas, seems to me to suggest that morality is largely impressed on us by society, for better or worse. That said, clearly there are physical laws in the Universe that have constructed an environment for us to live in which we can thrive, pursue creative projects, experience health, happiness, and joy, revel in the relationships with our fellow humans, etc...and then there is the other end of the spectrum, where people live in constant fear and paranoia, of their safety, their reputations, their ability to trust their closest friends, etc...and it's pretty obvious which scenario most people would prefer. Hence, in that sense, morality is universal.
  2. Science is a method of gathering facts, formulating theories that make sense of the facts, and then testing them to determine whether or not the theory holds true or needs to be modified. Recently there was a major discovery in cosmology that confirmed a previous prediction made under the Big Bang model thirty years ago. The Big Bang theory is one of the surest ideas in science because everything we observe now about the Universe points to an original starting point 13.8 billion years ago, when all mass and energy was compounded into a small point about the size of a marble. I'm not a physicist so I can only refer you to qualified writers on the subject, but every physics book I have ever read seems pretty confident, in the evidence before us, that the Big Bang occurred. If any counter evidence exists, it belongs in a peer reviewed scientific research paper.
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