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 Idealism was the position that C. S. Lewis adopted (not Christian theism) when he was persuaded by the argument from reason.  Here.  As for...

Obama: “Like if I tweet or hashtag about how you didn’t do something right or used the wrong verb, then I can sit back and feel pretty good...

Apparently there is a split in the pro-choice camp. Some reject the idea that they are pro-abortion, others embrace it.  Apparently to be ...

  Causal and sorting processes seem to me to be qualitatively different processes from reasoning. Reasoning involves the knowledge of logica...

 This is from atheist Taner Edis:  Physical explanations combine rules and randomness, both of which are mindless…Hence quantum mechanics ha...

  Here's an exercise for people. Provide definitions of liberalism and conservatism, or definitions of socialism and capitalism, in such...

  Some states—including South Dakota—consider homicide justifiable when it is an act of self-defense or in defense of another person. But HB...

  What do you mean by murder? There are malicious acts of murder, there are justifiable homicides, but then are there homicides that are not...

 The central miracle of Christianity isn't the Resurrection. It's the Incarnation , according to C. S. Lewis.  Merry Christmas. 

    I think it is a fallacy to think that in order to fit the crime, a punishment has to resemble the crime. People think that way about mur...

 Well, if a fetus is aborted, it goes to heaven. If it is not aborted, it might live long enough to commit a damnable sin.  But that isn...

 I once knew someone who was such a utilitarian that he thought human life was not a value at all. A friend of mine once asked him "Wel...

 I n the 2005 article “ Most Abortions Are Morally Legitimate , ” Bonnie Steinbock puts forward an argument stating that abortion is in fact...

 An interesting sidebar to the abortion issue would be this. People who are pro-choice often say that  the intent of getting an abortion is ...

  Here.   For those who are just interested in the abortion stuff, it's around 13 minutes in. Apparently he had a discussion with Pope B...

  There are certainly things that most of us regard as immoral that we wouldn’t want criminal laws against. For example, I think most of us ...

  I think you can make pragmatic and tentative choices of party as a Christian, but Christian ought to be, in an important sense, independen...

Determinism is determinism. There is only one kind of determinism. It is not the case that hards believe in outside forces and softs believe...

  If determinism is true, if one person is a murderer and another person is a law-abiding citizen, the ultimate reason goes back before the ...

It might seem counterintuitive to some people that punishing an innocent person can satisfy the demands of justice against a guilty person. ...