In a recent episode of the popular American network show The Mentalist, the primary "bad guy" is out to eliminate all witnesses to a crime he's committed.  One of these witnesses is an eight year old boy.  But this doesn't seem to bother the bad guy.  Not so for his helpers, however.  After bringing an accomplice (the "hit" man) to the boy's house, the bad guy tells him to go inside and dispatch him.  The hit man hesitates.  When the bad guy presses him, he tells him, "I can't kill a kid."
     It should not surprise us that even a hit man has morals, a sense of right and wrong, boundaries which even he will not cross.  We are moral animals.  Morality is part of us.  It's who we are.
     But why are we moral?  Science tells us that over millions of years we have learned that doing good is better than doing evil.  The latter ensures our survival, the former does not.
     Yet this doesn't tell us why we make moral choices.  It doesn't tell us why we are moral creatures, why, millions of years ago, one of our ancestors decided that there was such a thing as right and wrong.  It doesn't tell us why we have a conscience.  Bundles of neurons may make us work, but bundles of neurons do not make us moral.  We look in vain for the origin of something transcendent in the immanent.
     The material will never be moral unless something immaterial is moral first.