Our Conscience is our Moral Compass

The thinking mind is a moral mind and since all men have a thinking mind then man is a moral being. Animals are not moral. They cannot act in either a good or evil way. They act instinctively. Animals have no free will. They cannot act other then from instinct. The thinking mind has free will. He can choose his acts. Free will is free choice. Our conscience is our moral compass. It is the thinking minds power of direction. Our conscience is not a map. If we didn’t use our conscience we would have to use a map. A map is a representation of the territory. You can still get lost with a map, because it is a poor representation of the territory. A compass is different. It points the way. You do not need a map if you have a compass.  A compass must be correctly calibrated to true north to function correctly, to point the right way.  If our internal moral compass is not correctly calibrated on the principles of moral behaviour, it too will not point the true right way. The conscience, the internal moral compass, was placed in man by God. If there was no God there would be no right and wrong because there would be no moral law. But there is a moral law, there is right and wrong, and there is an obligation on man to act morally because he is a moral being. The theory of evolution says that man evolved from apes, and apes from matter. Conscience, the right and wrong detector cannot evolve from matter. Matter is neither right or wrong, neither does it know right or wrong but man knows right from wrong. Man in all of creation only knows right from wrong. This knowing cannot evolve from matter that does not know.