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June 22, 2010 21

Is Philosophy An Opinion?

By Gil S in Philosophy, Science, Worldview
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This question has been answered with an affirmative yes by some of this blog’s recent commenters, who have epic experience in critical thought. Their objections are rather amusing to say the least. Loud atheists like these are known for their deification of “truth” and “reason” while they proclaim the superiority of their intelligence over any [...]

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May 16, 2010 7

Cruel Logic

By Tim H. in Atheism, Culture, Debate, Internet, Morality, Science
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Here’s a cinematic presentation of the debate between moral relativism and objectivism that I found posted over at Frank Turek’s blog.  A serial killer kidnaps a professor who espouses a form of moral relativism and challenges him to give him one good reason why he ought not kill him. From what I’ve heard, they’re making [...]

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April 8, 2010 20

Veritas48′s Defense of the Kalam

By Tim H. in Atheism, Debate, Internet, Philosophy, Science, theism
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YouTube apologist Veritas48 has produced a comprehensive fifty-one minute presentation of the kalam cosmological argument.  He also covers several “pop” objections to the argument usually employed by laymen.

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March 8, 2010 8

Aliens and Christians

By Isaac F. in Christianity, Musings, Science, Theology
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Much in line with my last post, I’d like to present a thought I’ve had (but may not be original to myself) on a different sort of topic. The belief in extraterrestrial beings goes back a long ways and has drawn many into its black hole of thought. Every year dozens of pictures and videos [...]

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December 12, 2009 0

Laws of Nature are Descriptive

By Tim H in Musings, Philosophy, Science

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 [...]

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