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, [...]

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 [...]

From the mailbag: 3. Do you have any recommended resources that could help me better understand how presuppositionalists have responded to the specific criticism of their position?  I’m thinking of questions like these:     –How would presuppositionalism say we are to respond to a Muslim, JW, or other theist?  In the encounters I’ve witnessed, these [...]

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 [...]