In my last post, Tooley, The Euthyphro Objection and Divine Commands: Part I, I made some critical remarks on Michael Tooley’s critique of William Lane Craig’s version of the divine command theory. Tooley contends that this theory implies the conditional that if God had commanded mankind to torture one another as much as possible then […]
Entries from March 25th, 2009
Tooley, The Euthyphro Objection and Divine Commands: Part II
March 25th, 2009 8 Comments
Tags: Divine Command Theory · Ethics · Euthyphro Dilemma · God and Morality · Philosophy of Religion · Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
Barack Milks the US Treasury Dry
March 25th, 2009 1 Comment
This cartoon sums the US bailouts under Obama nicely: Hat tip: Pal2Pal
Tags: Humour
Win a Car and Speak Your Thoughts about the Human Impact on Global Warming
March 24th, 2009 18 Comments
Celebrate coming off an ice-age, win a car and get a platform to air your view to New Zealand about the junk “science” behind the global warming movement. Sound to good to be true? But wait, there is more! If you go here and enter the draw to win a brand new Toyota Prius, it […]
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Tooley, The Euthyphro Objection and Divine Commands: Part I
March 23rd, 2009 12 Comments
In a debate with William Lane Craig at the University of Colorado, Michael Tooley stated, There is a theory which has the consequence that there cannot be objective moral laws unless God exists—that’s the so-called ‘divine command theory of morality’. What it says is that an action is wrong because and only because God forbids […]
Tags: Divine Command Theory · Ethics · Euthyphro Dilemma · God and Morality · Philosophy of Religion · Selection · Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
Blackout Victory: s92a Scrapped
March 23rd, 2009 Comments Off on Blackout Victory: s92a Scrapped
The NBR reports that the controversial s92A of the Copyright Amendment Act will be scrapped. If you recall its implementation was to be “delayed a month while ISPs and copyright holders continued efforts to work out a voluntary agreement on how it would be enforced … if they could not agree, the clause would be […]
Tags: Human Rights · Justice · Liberty
Marquis, Pruss and the Twinning Argument
March 23rd, 2009 23 Comments
Augustine writes, And therefore the following question may be very carefully inquired into and discussed by learned men, though I do not know whether it is in man’s power to resolve it: At what time the infant begins to live in the womb: whether life exists in a latent form before it manifests itself in […]
Tags: Abortion · Embryocide · Ethics · Feticide · Science and Religion
South Park on Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
March 22nd, 2009 3 Comments
The flawed reasoning, commonly found in most media commentary on human embryonic stem-cell research, was not lost on the makers of South Park. I love how brutal South Park are in exposing PC rubbish; see the YouTube clips below. [There are two, fast loading, clips below; they are linked so that both will autoplay] Hat […]
Tags: Abortion · Bad Reasoning · Embryocide · Ethics · Feticide · Humour · Science and Religion
A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.
