One of my favorite benefits of being a Christian, as opposed to an atheist, is having an abundance of clear, gutsy, and thoughtful summaries of our faith. There are about 13 major confessions in the Reformed faith alone, and countless other creeds and statements for more “generic” orthodox Christianity. Christians, as early as the second [...]

In Romans 1 the Apostle Paul says that people who “knew God” “did not honor him nor give thanks to him” and “became futile in their thinking.” Other translations have “vain speculation.” Is this true? Because if it is, and these are universal claims regarding the condition of man in general, then we should expect [...]

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 [...]