appeal to the moral prophets, with a differentiation between the proper norms of higher morality and the experience of utilitarian biological values, between moral values and biological desires.2 If all this is correct, then conscience cannot have its locus in the life that God has given us. Adam and Eve before the fall had no conscience to the extent that the ethical question was very simply posed by the command of life itself, not by a judicial voice in themselves which is in fact to be distinguished