Weikart’s new book on Darwinian racism drops February 1, free webinar February 3
L&FP, 48n: The Fair Havens/Malta model for community change
The events recorded in Ac 27 (a ship getting caught in an early winter storm due to imprudence and defiance of counsel) are a historical micro case study on how key changes too often have to happen in a community: Ac 27:8 Coasting along it [the south coast of Crete, in the second ship for the voyage] with difficulty, we came to a place called Fair Havens, near which was the city of Lasea. 9 Since much time had passed, and the voyage was now dangerous because even the Fast [Yom Kippur] was already over, Paul advised them, 10 saying, “Sirs, I perceive that the voyage will be with injury and much loss, not only of the cargo and the Read More ›
Materialists Know What They Say is False. They Say it Anyway
Otherwise, they would have to give up their materialism. Recently I posted about a woman who was charged with attempted murder when she put a newborn baby in a garbage bag and tossed him in a dumpster to die. Here is an exchange I had with Seversky regarding that post: Barry: Is it objectively evil to put a baby in a garbage bag and throw him in a dumpster or is it just your subjective preference not to do so? Seversky: the overwhelming majority regard dumping newborns in dumpsters as being evil Barry: Suppose the overwhelming majority regarded dumping newborns in dumpsters as good. Would it then be good? Seversky: Presumably, it would be good in the minds of the Read More ›
Today is the 49th annual March for Life in Washington DC, USA.
To be monitored, here is the web site. Live video feed: Let us reflect on the ongoing killing of our living posterity in the womb, 800+ million and rising at about another million per week globally. Developing . . .
Light carbon another faint hope for past life on Mars?
Michael Ruse lecture makes interesting admission re Darwinism and atheists, agnostics
At The Scientist: Giving jumping genes their due
Commentator Vox Day has some harsh words for E.O’ Wilson’s detractors at Scientific American
L&FP, 48m: The legitimate authority of knowable moral truth in service to justice, thriving and prudence
In the current thread on an unfortunate event with a newborn, there is an exchange of comments: BA, 45: Suppose the overwhelming majority regarded dumping newborns in dumpsters as good. Would it then be good? Sev, 56: Presumably, it would be good in the minds of the majority who approved of it. It would not be a good thing from my perspective. This, of course reflects the core relativist thesis that rejects objective, warranted, generally knowable moral truth, and so I commented, 57: “thereby hangs the fatal error of relativising and undermining knowable, warranted, objective moral truth reducing it to clash of opinions backed by power. Justice evaporates.” Such brings us back to a core issue, legitimate, morally anchored authority Read More ›
Cambrian Explosion appears even more explosive now
A good idea: Teach philosophy of science in high school
At Mind Matters News: Prof: Fine-tuning in nature is due to the mind of the universe
New discovery: Insect larvae can jump
L&FP, 48L: Can we restore confident knowledge of moral truth?
Yes. But it will be contested. As Dallas Willard highlighted: Human life has an inescapable moral dimension. That is, it essentially involves choices with reference to what is good and evil, right and wrong, duty and failure to do what ought to be done . . . . What characterizes life in so-called Western societies today, however, is the absence, or presumed absence, of knowledge of good and evil, right and wrong, virtue and vice: knowledge that might serve as a rational basis for moral decisions, for policy enactments, and for rational critique of established patterns of response to moral issues. In short, we are up against a culture-dominating, institutionally entrenched narrative that even though lacking warrant, is backed by Read More ›