To speak specifically of human beings for the moment: any change that can affect a change in human consciousness would lead to a translation across the moral landscape. So changes to our genome, and changes to our economic systems — and changes occurring on any level in between that can affect human well-being for good [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

As all Christians should know, the atheist has no real grounds for objective morals. Without an objective standard there can be no objective “right” or “wrong.” Ethics can be nothing more than personal preference or the success of evolution to create a clever (and still subjective) mechanism for furthering our species. Alonzo Fyfe and his [...]

This is a quick refutation of Philadelphia’s Atheist examiner on presuppositional apologetics, Staks Rosch, as I read it for the first time: Various forms of Presupposition Theology Well, it’s not even five words into the essay and I’m already a bit confused. Doesn’t he mean “presuppositional apologetics”? Granted, presuppositional apologetics is based off of biblical [...]

The first hour of the James White vs. Daniel Barker debate entitled “Was Jesus a Myth?” was recently released. The debate took place on September 26th, 2009 in Newberg, Oregon. Dan Barker went to college at Azuza Pacific University and is the founder and President of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. He plays Jazz piano [...]