By jaminhubner on Sep 5, 2010 in Atheism, Critique of "New Science of Morality", Ethics, Law, and Foreign Policy | 0 Comments
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 [...]
By jaminhubner on Sep 1, 2010 in Atheism, Critique of "New Science of Morality", 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 29, 2010 in Ethics, Law, and Foreign Policy | 13 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 chrisbolt on Jul 8, 2010 in Ethics, Law, and Foreign Policy, Philosophy | 0 Comments
“Ethics deals with what is morally right and wrong. Christian Ethics deals with what is morally right and wrong for a Christian.” Norman Geisler. Christian Ethics: Options and Issues. Grand Rapids, MI. Baker Academic, 1989. Pg. 17. (All quotations and paraphrases in this post are from this source.) Let’s step carefully through Dr. Geisler’s statements. [...]
By dfroth on Jun 29, 2010 in Ethics, Law, and Foreign Policy | 2 Comments
I promised a lot of you that I would let you know as soon as I did how the case came out. Well, on a whim, I checked into the case today and it turns out that the decision was handed down this morning. In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court sided with UC Hastings, [...]
By dfroth on Apr 24, 2010 in Ethics, Law, and Foreign Policy | 0 Comments
This is a link to a story PBS did on the case of CLS v. Martinez, which will be argued before the Supreme Court tomorrow. It involves the Christian Legal Society chapter at UC Hastings (near San Fransisco), which had its student organization status revoked by the school because the group requires that voting members [...]
By jaminhubner on Nov 24, 2009 in American Evangelicalism, Ethics, Law, and Foreign Policy | 0 Comments
Breakfast never tasted this good. I could smell that the traditional spinach, cheese, and egg omelet was in the works. I sat in my chair, downed some fresh carrot juice, and began rubbing the sleepers out of my eyes before lifting up the first piece of fresh avocado. The familiar voice of Dobson came on [...]