A Flawed Analogy to Morality

October 25, 2012 By 76 Comments
Harlequin dexterity puzzle, R.J. Journet (London)

Leah Libresco has hit the ball back over the net in our conversation on morality. I respond to her comments, including a challenge that I am actually appealing to an external standard.

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Ten Commandments have no Role in Public

May 25, 2012 By 7 Comments

Few Americans can list the Ten Commandments, but so what? What is their relevance in modern society?

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MS-DOS and Objective Truth

April 26, 2012 By 76 Comments

IBM-compatible MS-DOS PCs used to start up displaying a C-prompt (the “C:>” with a blinking cursor). We don’t conclude anything transcendental from this. Similarly, most humans have an innate sense of morality, but we can’t conclude anything transcendent from this either.

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Understanding Morality—It’s Really Not that Hard

December 19, 2011 By 22 Comments

When apologist Greg Kokul critiques atheist morality, it’s hard to imagine that he’ll get so many things wrong.

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An Inept Attempt to Defang the Problem of Evil

November 9, 2011 By 61 Comments

Christian apologist Greg Kokul tries to turn the tables on the atheist who proposes the Problem of Evil, but his argument collapses into cogently-argued rubble.

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Confused Thinking About Homosexuality

October 3, 2011 By 13 Comments

An online Christian ministry has a long argument against homosexuality and same-sex marriage that needs dismantling.

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