Naturalism
On Quora I was invited to help answer the question “Is God the only possible foundation for objective morality?”. The following is my contribution. Yes, without an objective moral lawgiver the notion of an objective moral law is absurd. The fundamental question when it comes to the establishment of any moral system is where obligation [...]
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I’ve weighed the evidence, listened to the best debaters, and carefully examined the scriptures. And I’ve reluctantly come to the conclusion that I simply can’t believe in it anymore. The most articulate priests and prophets were unable to persuade me of the validity of their position. And they were wholly unable to answer the serious [...]
Materialists are fond of claiming that all of our knowledge comes to us through our 5 senses. Supernatural is above or beyond nature. Any belief in a realm that isn’t knowable though our 5 senses. Or al least able to use a provable method of advanced conceptualizing that ties back to our senses and is [...]
If you suppose that you are nothing more than the molecules that make you up, then the only thing you can own are molecules. However that poses a problem since our bodies are constantly changing out molecules. In fact, 98% of the molecules in our bodies are replaced yearly. There is not a core of [...]
Here is a 3 part video set that shows what naturalists think the fate of philosophy will be in the “age of neuroscience” Our biological similarities with animals should serve as evidence that our real cognitive differences do not lie in our biological/physical make-up. However, neuroscientists like the ones above are quite happy to paint [...]
A report from The Economist on the use of biometrics in security systems concludes with the line And everyone would be better served if a good deal more was known about what it is, biologically, that makes each and everyone of us a unique human being. This, after the report outlines how biometric systems can [...]
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This is a long video but well worth it if you want to understand the secular left’s position on animals and their relationship with humans. The key point, in my estimation, comes in during the Q&A at the end where one of the audience members makes the point that we have to come up with [...]
Can atheists Trust the truth detecting ability of their own minds? By that I mean; In a theistic universe we are given reason to trust that our senses are capable of accurately detecting the world around us because we hold to the notion that they were properly designed to operate in the environment in which we employ [...]
If by secularism we mean philosophical naturalism in the sense that the only reality is the physical reality of atoms, particles, and “laws of nature” to the exclusion of metaphysical constructs such as a soul then our biggest hurdle to overcome, long before we deal with the grounds of any objective morality, is to answer where we get the notion of “ought to” from.
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