For sure, and I apologize for not being clear if I implied that evolution or evolutionary history was somehow not reflective of reality. What I meant ...
Thank you, I really appreciate your insight. I agree with what you’re saying about the militant neo-darwinians like Harris, Dawkins, etc. To me, their...
Yeah thats what I think as well. Whether it’s natural interest or some combination of that and social conditioning it’s unsure. But also like you said...
No I’m saying I feel like I’ve been indoctrinated into this idea of the separation of church and state being a “good” thing because I live in the US. ...
I'm curious what the difference between a Theocracy is and a country that has a "national church" such as Finland or Denmark. Because some of the happ...
This is actually why I'm for teaching about religion or using religious texts in public schools. It is important for people to understand what others ...
That's why I said "our," as in each person's interpretation of what is right and wrong. The interesting thing about that that situation is it could go...
The interesting thing is, the way we currently have it, some religious and non-religious people feel slighted. Some religious people are afraid that r...
Excellent, well said. I think there can be a good balance between allowing the discussion of religious ideas (even explicitly) without having a theocr...
Sorry I was probably unclear. I think any moral system that claims life has any cosmic value is making a claim about what is worthy of reverence, sacr...
I totally agree. But people wanting their morality to be objective (or claiming it is objective) does not necessarily make it true. To me, this is a h...
I think you are misrepresenting the design argument. The design argument simply states that the universe seems to be governed by simple consistent law...
Proof of God is very interesting thing. I don't think we will ever find it except in the case of something like defining "God" like the Kalam Cosmolog...
To me, this would imply morality is subjective. If we take objective to mean it does not depend on the mind for existence, then if it depends on who y...
Great topic. One particular challenge when it comes to morality is establishing a basis for which to judge moral codes and statements. For instance, w...
Very good point, I think logic would have been a better way to say it. For instance, I was taking the 2nd definition of reason (not the noun one) that...
I don't think so. The definitions of reason in the google dictionary are Note that this has nothing to do with truth necessarily. For instance, mathem...
In this case, the idea of “reason” I had in mind were things like modus ponens, avoiding what are defined as local fallacies, drawing conclusions from...
Very interesting point; I never thought about this before. I actually think it does, but to a different extent. You say but I’d disagree. If a woman i...
that’s actually an interesting concept, I’ve been reading a few articles on it now that you brought it up. Often when we use “reason” to find an answe...
That’s a good point. Imagine if people could kill their children after they were born, and then claim it was their right to choose. Maybe there are op...
I will say as with any set of academic fields, they tend to be delineated based on the research that people who self-identify in the field (or who are...
I read in an economics textbook that the average predicted value of a human life in the US is around $50,000, despite the fact that we like to think o...
This is something that bothers me about the stance of (some) conservatives. It doesn’t make sense to me to campaign for anti-abortion/pro-life and als...
This is why I am sympathetic to the conviction of pro life. These people literally believe the government allowing access to abortion is them legally ...
I actually see this as a good thing. From what I understand, the legality of Roe v Wade was always a bit sketchy. Even RBG said “the court ventured to...
Hmmm maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean when you say For instance, if we said that all parts of the house were made of wood, or that all parts o...
Bringing this back to the OPs original point, in my city there’s a secular humanist “church” that I’ve been meaning to go to and check out. They meet ...
One potential challenge to your objection is that you differentiate However, the "universe" is defined as Meaning if you accept that matter and energy...
Agreed. I think what convinced me of this was a version of Plantinga’s free will defense, which follows in the lines of Augustine and Aquinas. In fact...
Epicurus's quote does nothing to suggest an omnipotent, omni benevolent god (or a God as in the Abrahamic religions) couldn't logically exist. Especia...
I actually think the argument that mathematics is somehow rooted in "white supremacist culture" (as the article claims) falls apart when you realize t...
LOL, now that’s a good point It’s interesting, because in some ways I think the progressive left would actually consider (Neo)-Nazis to be an oppresse...
It’s an interesting question. Here are some ways I’ve thought about it. When the question was traditionally asked, I think it was implied that the que...
Did the article always make such broad claims without citing sources? I like the beginning but I quickly got annoyed with statements like with a citat...
To go back to your original point, which is a good point, say I am a white male. Then I can say that I have the epistemological experience of a white ...
I think your idea of objective knowledge is too strict. We could also say philosophers have been arguing about the existence of the external world, ot...
Thanks for your insight. What bothers me is that metaphysical naturalism seems to imply that all (not just some or many) of our thoughts and actions a...
Yeah, and I didn’t mean to imply that there aren’t Christian biblical literalists out there (as there certainly are). It is more that the version of C...
I thought I'd step in and say I don't think I know any Christian or Jewish believers who literally think the Bible fell out of the sky, literally tran...
Would prayer and meditation necessarily have different origins? Studies suggest both reduce stress, increase forgiveness, increase self-control, etc. ...
Yep, this is a documented disorder and it's not just for legs (although legs may be the most common). It's called body integrity identity disorder (BI...
I think you are missing the point. The value of Holy Books or religion isn't only tied to the reliability of their supernatural claims. Like I said, I...
I couldn't disagree more. Most religions have some canonical figure or text(s) that forms the basis of their religion. Take Christianity-I'd say with ...
Yes, I was actually going off of some of the ideas in these threads. In particular you say Which I do very much agree with. Anything to associate it w...
Exactly. Under the assumption that God exists he can bend/break the laws of physics at will. One analogy that comes to mind is a programmer for a simu...
In this case, would you also hold that religious fundamentalists who believe that those they are preaching to could spend eternity in hell are also ac...
To me, there is a very clear distinction between (as you say) God existing and someone having free will to "piss in your milk and steal your honey." I...
This is a good point, and there seems (to me) to be tension around whether the definition of athiesm is a denial of the existence of gods or an assert...
If you believe the universe was created by God, then I think it is pretty easy to believe It/He/They are fair. In particular, the same causal, natural...
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