RP: Let's be blunt about Kant's moral philosophy. Ultimately it is no less predicated on God than all of the old metaphysical contraptions he...
Originally Posted by Randall Patrick: The only thing I presume is that you presume this question can, in fact, be answered by science...
Originally Posted by Randall Patrick: I'll do that John. Just as soon as science Objectively answers the questions I raised above. Just as soon as...
Originally Posted by Randall Patrick To presume that a woman agonizing over whether or not to abort an unwanted fetus is on the same mechanistic...
John: The theory of God is not based on science. Determinism always has been. RP: I agree. But there are many, many things that...
RP: This may well be true. Or it might not be. But, in my view, the crucial point is that all it really provides is a plausable scaffolding---a...
In an essentially absurd and meaningless world---one sans God---all renditions of morality or of acting out one's deontological duty are...
RP: So, whether it is a mother caressing a new born baby or Hitler ordering the extermination of an entire race it is all just a mechanical...
John Connellan: Yes, Hitler too is just another (biological) reaction but also it was very right to try and dispose of Hitler because he WAS still...
RP: So, what is all the fuss about Hitler and the Houlocaust? Why do people hold him in such contempt when he could no more have not ordered the...
The black anticipation of green is not the most recent unicorn to land on the roof of the White House---at least since the birth Abraham Lincoln's...
RP: This all sounds very, very abstract to me. Why don't you situate his points by encompassing them in an actual human political or moral...
No, you are not awesome. Instead, you are an Objectivist, aren't you? Ethics are not only Rational or Irrational...they are also Good or Evil? Rand...
In a world without God meaning more or less revolves around whatever we think it does. At least respecting the most important chunks of human...
There is no possibility, of course, for anyone to answer that question objectively. And that is because no one has a clue as why anything even exist...
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