I think that overall our moral sense provides more for altruism and empathy than for those bad activities.. Everyday most people help each other, whilst few engage in those bad activities.
I agree with Paul Kurtz in " Forbidden Fruit' and Quentin Smith in his book on ethics and religion that the common decencies are universal.
To concentrate on those bad activities is what the immoral ethicists do. We are not evil by nature as Ellis Albert in " The Myth of Self -Esteem," notes but rather more good than bad.
As Sam Harris in " The Moral Landscape" and Alonzo note, science can inform us about how to proceed with our choices
Theists beg the question that God gave us the moral sense. over the millennia, humanity has refined the sense with better ethics, and putative God did not give an evolving ethic!
Why, as S.T. Joshi in " God's Defenders" notes, even the religious don't favor all their God's commands!
My covenant morality for humanity -the presumption of morality is similar to Richard Carrier's in his " Sense and Goodness without God: a Defense of Metaphysical Naturalism."
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Friday, February 1, 2013
That big soul-man!
God is that big soul-man, and like souls, science finds no evidence for His soul: it finds that all minds depend on brains, so that notion of disembodied mind of God instantiates the argument from physical mind and [Matt] McCormick's why God cannot think or act.
Theologians then are using the argument from ignorance for their belief that He's have a disembodied one; they and most atheists know that to claim an embodied one would affirm what only a very few atheists think that, as the Soviet cosmonauts claimed, that they didn't find Him- no physical body- no God!
McCormick's argument carries the notion that His omniconsciousness and omnipresence preclude His thinking and His doings and why, He'd not have any kind of mind at all! To be able to think and act, beings must be aware of themselves as distinct from the rest of the world.This if omnipresent, He would not be distinct to do either.
He states:" [A]being must be limited in time and place in order to be conscious of objects and itself, being aware of their representations as representations, and form judgments about them.
.... The impossibility of omniconsciousness also has some serious implications for omniscience."
How then could one have a relationship with a being not able to respond?
This and the one from physical mind affirm perforce ignosticism/igtheism, theological non-cognitivism!
Theologians then are using the argument from ignorance for their belief that He's have a disembodied one; they and most atheists know that to claim an embodied one would affirm what only a very few atheists think that, as the Soviet cosmonauts claimed, that they didn't find Him- no physical body- no God!
McCormick's argument carries the notion that His omniconsciousness and omnipresence preclude His thinking and His doings and why, He'd not have any kind of mind at all! To be able to think and act, beings must be aware of themselves as distinct from the rest of the world.This if omnipresent, He would not be distinct to do either.
He states:" [A]being must be limited in time and place in order to be conscious of objects and itself, being aware of their representations as representations, and form judgments about them.
.... The impossibility of omniconsciousness also has some serious implications for omniscience."
How then could one have a relationship with a being not able to respond?
This and the one from physical mind affirm perforce ignosticism/igtheism, theological non-cognitivism!
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Evolution
And please read Clinton Richard Dawkins' " The Greatest Show on Earth," Jerry Coyne's " Why Evolution Is True," Neil Shubin's " Your Inner Fish and Donald Prothero's " What the Fossils Say and Why They Are Important" and Ernst Mayr's "What Evolution I " to understand evolution even better!
Talk Origins is a superb site!
Talk Origins is a superb site!
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