By jaminhubner on Sep 2, 2010 in Atheism, Neurophilosophy: Consciousness, Cognition, and Self-ID | 0 Comments
Sam Harris, author of The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values (forthcoming) continues describing “the New Science of Morality” in Edge 325: And yet, on the subject of morality, we seem to think that the possibility of differing opinions, the fact that someone can come forward and say that his morality has nothing [...]
By jaminhubner on Sep 1, 2010 in Atheism, Ethics, Law, and Foreign Policy | 0 Comments
Edge 325 (August 31st, 2010) essentially brought to the table a more sophisticated version of the relativistic view of morality promoted by Silverman at the debate this past Monday. The well-known atheist Sam Harris recently attempted to capture “the New Science of Morality.” We can look at the world, witnessing all of the diverse behaviors, [...]
By jaminhubner on Aug 30, 2010 in Atheism, Event Review | 0 Comments
Don’t tell Dr. White this, but I totally forgot that the Is the New Testament Evil? debate was going on tonight. (It’s amazing how fast the summer evolves into fall! Lame excuse, I know.) But by God’s grace I had the time and happened to be online to listen to it live when I popped [...]
By jaminhubner on Aug 29, 2010 in Ethics, Law, and Foreign Policy | 9 Comments
Got an interesting email the other week: With the current issue of marriage being pushed into the fore front of social and political debate, I find myself struggling with what the Christian position should be with regard to how the State/Government should be involved in this. It seems like the social issue of homosexual marriage [...]
By jaminhubner on Aug 26, 2010 in Creation; Evolution; Intelligent Design | 2 Comments
Came across some prophetic words by Kuyper (rectorial address of 1899) this morning, words that also fly in the face of all who are involved with the BioLogos Forum: We can hardly be sufficiently serious in warning all who worship Christ as their realized Ideal to be on guard against every wanton relation with evolution. [...]
By jaminhubner on Aug 25, 2010 in American Evangelicalism, RealApologetics Recommended | 0 Comments
Long story, but I’m home for a week working on the farm. So I listened to several lectures while cutting down a field of hay in the new windrower. Other than the free OT lectures by Belcher on iTunesU, I felt greatly blessed by the sermon series on Romans by Chuck Swindoll. He preached true [...]
By jaminhubner on Aug 24, 2010 in Philosophy, Theology | 0 Comments
Some of us Christians have the tendency to teach doctrine and theology like fast-food. We respond to the market; people don’t have time for something too deep and tasty, so we squirt a little ketchup on the bun, do a quick-wrap, and pass it forward before moving on to another skeptic, critic, or friend. Difficulties [...]