Taking a short break from homework, I’d just like to bring forth a thought that I’ve had recently regarding the historicity of Adam and Eve. This is not going to be a historical argument like one may infer from the title. so be warned that this is an argument from Biblical inspiration. Recall that I’m [...]
Tags: Adam and Eve, Creation, evolution
(This is a revised version of a blogpost that I wrote around a year ago) In his 1970 paper “A Disproof of God’s Existence,” atheologian Michael Martin argues: If God exists, God has not had the feelings of lust or envy. If God exists, God exists as a being who knows at least everything man [...]
There are many passionate debates over the issue of abortion because it shakes the core of our moral foundation. If abortion is truly immoral, then abortionists will have essentially murdered an innocent person; but the opposition contends that it is not yet a person and so abortion is morally justified. It’s safe to say that [...]
Tags: Abortion, Pragmatism, Sex
The test of whether or not one can conceive of something is usually employed in philosophy to distinguish contingency and necessity. It’s said that if something is impossible (It cannot exist in any scenario), then we can’t conceive of its being instantiated. For example, a square circle is inconceivable because it’s self-contradictory. On the [...]
Tags: Conceivability, Modal logic, Possibility
Not sure if I’m reinventing the wheel here, but recently I used a variation of David Hume’s is-ought problem in response to a debate opponent who claimed that the laws of nature were prescriptive, as opposed to descriptive. In ethics, the is-ought problem states that we cannot derive a moral prescription out of a description [...]
