In this clip from my talk with philosopher Dr. Michael Huemer, he explains why he thinks morality cannot be reduced to evolution. He argues evolution does not account well for the moral progress which has occurred in the history of humanity during the past two thousand years and, specially, in modernity.
Michael Huemer is a philosopher who has made significant contributions to epistemology, ethics, metaethics and political philosophy. He is well-known for his defense of ethical intuitionism, the view that there are objective moral truths and that we can know them through intuition. Huemer argues that moral principles can be known with a level of certainty similar to that of our knowledge of basic facts about the external world. He has also written extensively on political philosophy, advocating for libertarian principles and critiquing common justifications for state authority.