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Category Archives: Divine Essentialism
Poll: What grounds objective moral truth?
Choose one option from this poll: God wills the good in accordance with his loving nature. The good is a construct of God, man or nature. Nothing, there are only constructs which do not obligate. In other words: What grounds … Continue reading
Dear Euthyphro meme
The Humean-Platonic tripartite (Ought-Is-Belief) theory of moral knowledge May 10, 2012Answering Jerry Coyne and Jason Thibodeau on the Euthyphro Dilemma October 29, 2011God (is) the Golden Rule (ought) without offending Hume April 10, 2011Natural law, divine command and Euthyphro’s dilemma resolved March 27, 2011Hume’s is-ought, Plato’s … Continue reading
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Groothuis’ "Christian Apologetics" ch.6: Truth Defined and Defended
The apologetics study group LOVES this quote from Groothuis’ Christian Apologetics: “We may be entitled to our own opinions, but we are not entitled to our own facts.” p. 124 It’s actually a variant of a quote commonly attributed to Daniel Patrick … Continue reading
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What being is described by a without-God good?
From a discussion in a Veritas forum: If you ask: To what does a real ought correspond? …or… What does a real ought describe? …you will notice that science will have as easy a time answering that as answering: What … Continue reading
Is-ought discussion with WLC
I had a discussion with Dr. Craig in a note I posted on Facebook, but I am deleting Facebook Sunday and the discussion was never resolved, so I am moving it to here. Hopefully he can reply here or in … Continue reading
Observations on the finale of Fringe
The Observer known as “September” So tonight was the (correction: fall) finale of Fringe, named Wallflower for an invisible man, but probably also calling attention to Peter taking a less active roll in this particular multiverse by making Lincoln more attractive to Olivia … Continue reading
Answering Stephen Law’s evil god argument
This is a reply to Stephen Law’s “evil god” argument he gave in his debate with William Lane Craig in October. I first posted a version of it in a comment to my blog post here, in reply to Jason … Continue reading
Answering Jerry Coyne and Jason Thibodeau on the Euthyphro Dilemma
Maryann, Matt, Tom and Jerry (missing: Jason) I’m writing this blog post to get in on the most recent Euthyphro Dilemma dilemma between atheist biologist Jerry Coyne and my fellow Christian Apologetics bloggers Matt Flannagan of MandM and Tom Gilson … Continue reading
Good without God?
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