Here is a New York Times story about how scientists view morality. Scientists view morality differently from the way ordinary people and philosophers view it. There’s nothing wrong with that, so long as we remember the following: Everything that exists, including human institutions such as law, morality, religion, commerce, medicine, etiquette, and art—even science itself—has a naturalistic explanation. Unless you are prepared to say that all of these institutions are thereby discredited, you should not say that any one of them (such as religion) is. We might call this “Dennett‘s Mistake.”