{"id":291,"date":"2010-11-27T09:56:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-27T09:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2010\/11\/coming-up-this-week\/"},"modified":"2012-09-04T16:19:01","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T20:19:01","slug":"coming-up-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2010\/11\/coming-up-this-week.html","title":{"rendered":"Coming up this week&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>I\u2019m taking the weekend off as part of my Thanksgiving holiday (i.e. making time to do all the work that I was supposed to have tackled during the Thanksgiving holiday). \u00a0I\u2019m going to set myself the more modest goal of getting caught up on replying to recent comments (so if you\u2019ve been waiting for a response to a question, check back on the thread on Monday, and hassle me if I haven\u2019t gotten to it.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, I\u2019ll be starting two posts that will be crossover posted to both the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unequally-yoked.com\/2010\/10\/eight-questions-for-atheists.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Eight Questions series<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unequally-yoked.com\/2010\/10\/sin-and-immorality-index-post.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sin and Immorality series<\/a> when I tackle the last two questions of Egnor\u2019s eight:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Does Moral Law exist in itself, or is it an artifact of nature (natural selection, etc.)?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why is there evil?<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have a couple more posts planned out to follow and flesh out my discussion of immoral acts, and then I\u2019ll have to find a new series topic. \u00a0Perhaps the next book on my list, Sam Harris\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1439171211?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=unequyoked-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1439171211\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values<\/em><\/a>. 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