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 […]
Entries from March 23rd, 2009
Tooley, The Euthyphro Objection and Divine Commands: Part I
March 23rd, 2009 12 Comments
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
“Tweet This” for Blogger with no Log In and Shortened URL!
March 21st, 2009 5 Comments
I finally found a Tweet This add-on for blogger that does everything I want it to including automatically shortening the page URL. I had looked all over and tried several options but they either required tweeters to log in even if they were already logged in or they did not include any text or they […]
Tags: Tech-Tips
Alexander Pruss on Marquis’s Transitivity of Identity Argument
March 20th, 2009 5 Comments
Matt gave an overview of his scepticism here that moral status is attained at conception, citing Don Marquis’ transitivity of identity argument placing moral status beginning at segmentation (14-21 days post-conception). Matt is agnostic as to whether moral status is acquired at conception but argues that unless there are good reasons for thinking the pre-segmentation […]
Tags: Abortion · Embryocide · Ethics · Feticide · 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.
Baby Abandoned in Airport Rubbish Bin, Sexist Responses Already Underway
March 20th, 2009 8 Comments
Imagine if someone uttered the following statement “Women are irrational creatures. Due to their propensity to be emotional, they are not responsible for their actions.” I suspect people would think I was quoting from a popular elizabethan or medieval discussion of women and most would write this statement off as sexist, misogynist and old fashioned. […]
Tags: Feminism · Infanticide