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Saturday, February 22, 2020

Were the apostles really martyred? And what difference does it make?

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Repeal and Replace the Second Amendment???

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Here's a defense of that , from the Leftist Nation.
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Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Against the blind watchmaker

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The title of one of Richard Dawkins’s books is entitled The Blind Watchmaker , but its subtitle is How the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a...
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Sunday, February 16, 2020

Hard Determinism

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The hard  determinist   doesn't say we don't make choices, but they just say that we don't know the causes of our actions, and i...
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Sunday, February 09, 2020

No more punting to impeachment!

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Unfortunately, the Justice Department punts to impeachment as a reason why a President can't be indicted. Given the partisan nature of t...
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The autonomy objection to religious morality

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The autonomy objection to religious morality puzzles me.  If you think there is a perfect being who loves you, and who has some clues as to ...
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On hypocrisy

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If there are high moral expectations on people, and people think they can benefit from appearing to others as if they meet those high expec...
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Saturday, February 08, 2020

Nonconsequentialist moral theories

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I think there is some connection to consequences in many  nonconsequentialist   ethical theories. For example, people who look to God's ...
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Wednesday, February 05, 2020

Support for Trump: The Conservative Shibboleth

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Nowadays, the shibboleth for conservatism is support for Trump. Judges 12: 1-15 12, 4 Then Jephthah gathered together all the men ...
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Thursday, January 30, 2020

Any real convictions?

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Does anyone doubt that Trump would support abortion on demand, open borders, and socialism if it benefited him personally to do so? The si...
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Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Are morals objective?

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The question is whether, if you are asking whether something is right or wrong, whether claims about that can be correct or incorrect. It i...
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Wednesday, January 22, 2020

The writings of Josephus

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Monday, January 20, 2020

How would you answer someone who questions the heart of ethics?

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  According to the   BBC guide to ethics , "At the heart of ethics is a concern about something or someone other than ourselves and our...
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Thursday, January 09, 2020

Explaining reasoning away

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People rightly fear that we will interpose a God-explanation where a scientific explanation might be provided which would provide us with mo...
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Tuesday, January 07, 2020

Need to impeach

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The Democrats want impeachment, but the Republicans need it.
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Thursday, January 02, 2020

The paradox of Dawkins' title

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The title of one of Richard Dawkins’ books is entitled The Blind Watchmaker , but its subtitle is How the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a ...
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Monday, December 30, 2019

Trump and the Seven Deadly Sins

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I think some of Trump's statements make virtues out of what Christians describe as sins. I recently told me class that I used to think R...
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Saturday, December 28, 2019

Dualism persists in the science of mind

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According to this study. Though people like Dennett dismiss people like that as "mind creationists."
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Wednesday, December 25, 2019

Politically Correct Scrooge

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One of my daughters went to the customer service counter of a local grocery store and said "Merry Christmas." The woman at the des...
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Sunday, December 22, 2019

On Hunter Biden

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How are board members selected in most companies. Do they need experience in the field? Is it wrong for them to be chosen because of their k...
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Victor Reppert
I am the author of C. S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea: In Defense of the Argument from Reason, published by Inter-Varsity Press. I received a Ph.D in philosophy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989.
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