Is There an Objective Morality? Does it really matter?

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Scientific objectivity is a characteristic of scientific claims, methods and results. It expresses the idea that the claims, methods and results of science are not, or should not be influenced by particular perspectives, value commitments, community bias or personal interests, to name a few relevant factors. Objectivity is often considered as an ideal for scientific inquiry, as a good reason for valuing scientific knowledge, and as the basis of the authority of science in society.

Theologians have long argued for the necessity of an ultimate cause. There must be, to their way of thinking, a final link in the long and lengthening chain of causes and effects; a page where the final word is written and all debate end.

Science, at least as I understand it, does not require the universe to rest upon such an ultimate foundation. If it ever did, surely quantum mechanics and theoretical physics have nearly demolished that view by now. Regardless, as the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy definition of scientific objectivity provided above indicates, science generally does assume an absolute reality, if not an ultimate essential one, which is not only indifferent to our perception of it, but to our very existence in the universe which science strives to describe.