I was glancing at this post from the Diary of a Teenage Atheist.  The combox discussion had what amounts as an admission that nature is designed rather than evolved.

Matt Svoboda posed the following question to TA: “. . . ‘Where does the moral code come from?’ Why do our moral codes automatically tell us it is wrong for a person to kill another person in cold blood?”

Dave, who I assume is an atheist, answers the question this way:

Because humans are designed to be social creatures that thrive when arranged in communities. Those communities break down when murder in cold blood is allowed. Our “moral code” comes from our natural instinct to encourage behavior which leads to orderly societies. (emphasis added)

Dave is on the right track.  Remember Psalm 40:6 and Jeremiah 31:33?  The law of God, our moral code, is written within us by God.  We are, therefore, designed by God to be social creatures, and we thrive best within a society.

I really don’t see another answer to the question of morality’s source other than someone greater than ourselves who places it into our hearts.  He then becomes the standard by which we judge ourselves.  He cannot also be a part of creation; you can’t judge someone by his own standards, for that is not judging.  When you judge, you necessarily use someone else’s standard.

Dave said it himself.  Humans are “designed.”  Designed by whom?  I submit that we are designed by God.