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Featuring on Richard-Dawkins-loving atheist blogs around the web, the “Jesus and Mo” atheist cartoons are doubly lazy1. Because actually doing art and actually engaging with an issue is just too time-consuming… Continue reading jesus & mo
The phrase ‘follow your heart’1 is one of many popular un-wisdoms. Phrases that sound nice entering and leaving your consciousness. The heart, Hebrew prophet Jeremiah (and many an atheist) reminds us, is desperately wicked and is not to be trusted as a guide for one’s life. I know my own ‘heart’ well enough to know not to follow it wherever it . . . → Read More: change of heart A quick thought about the is-ought distinction. I still hold that you cannot derive an ethical ‘ought’ from a scientific ‘is’. I also think we cannot derive oughts from philosophical kinds of is. Here’s what I mean. It could be suggested that an ought can simply be inferred directly from what something is. For example, it could be argued that if someone . . . → Read More: ought thought “Darwinists are not necessarily hoofed and horned monsters, but are occasionally of pacific habits, and may even be detected in the act of going to church.” (Leslie Stephen, ‘Darwinism and Divinity’ in Essays on Freethinking and . . . → Read More: hoof it to church The following classically monotheistic text makes it clear that the ‘who made God’ question is not new. “Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me.” . . . → Read More: unmade A – Hitler was yet another example of religion poisoning everything. B – What!? Hitler was no real Christian. He’s an example of how destructive the theory of evolution really is. C – What are the chances that Hitler’s understanding of evolution (eugenistic) and Christianity (militaristic) were both . . . → Read More: blaming hitler 2 A – “Hitler did what he did because he was influenced by his religion.” B – “Oh no, Hitler actually did what he did because he was influenced by evil-ution.” C – (sighs and . . . → Read More: blaming hitler I knew I’d have to blog about this one. I just got back from the latest TANSA (Theology and the Natural Sciences in Aotearoa) meeting at Laidlaw College. The Speaker was Dr. Peter Wills, who, it turns out, is a naturalist (I also met and had a nice talk with a lady who shared that she no longer professed faith, so this was no Christians-only affair). Nicola, the chairperson for TANSA, opened with a lovely quote from theologian Michael Welker to give expression to the ‘T’ in TANSA, as Peter would handle the ‘N’ (couldn’t help but smile to myself seeing boxes of ‘Hell’ pizza behind this ‘godless’ scientist ;D ). Continue reading naturalistic dualist? Some scattered, quick thoughts about miracles, in passing reflection (all I’ve got time for at the moment) on some recent posts by Damian and Glenn. I, too, am sceptical (US friends, this is the NZ spelling of skeptical) of most miracle reports I hear. Wait, no, I’m actually sceptical of all miracle reports I hear. Not because I think ‘miracles just don’t . . . → Read More: miracles The ‘proper’ basis for the personal identity of any given human is a hard thing to derive… if you’re limited to the tools of, say, science. Science wonderfully (and tragically in the case of murder, hate, discrimination, etc.) describes what humans ‘do’ (human doings), but not what/who humans ‘are’ (human beings). I’d want to affirm that ‘doing’ (as well as ‘knowing’ and ‘feeling’) is a necessary component of what a human ‘being’ is, but not the whole composition. Any identity based on only feelings, actions and intelligence alone is incomplete and leaves out something. Continue reading sex & identity |
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