The ongoing discussion that I’ve been having (largely off the blog) about the recent entries on morality has prompted me to cover one last topic that I only mentioned in passing last time: the Euthyphro dilemma. This should be the last time I talk about morality on the blog for a while, so don’t worry: [...]

I’ve been having a number of interesting conversations recently regarding the post on secular morality, and I’d like to discuss some of the thoughts that have emerged from those exchanges.
One of my entry-level statements when discussing human morality is that no matter where it does come from, we can be fairly certain it’s not from [...]

I was out in Philly this weekend and, through the normal course of catch-up conversation, I was asked a question that is quickly rising to the top of my “inevitable” list: “As an atheist, what keeps you from doing just anything?”
Ah, yes. The moral question is a big one. It’s been addressed many times [...]

Happy Friday! Before heading out for the weekend, I’m going to throw out a couple quotes from an author I’m reading currently, Jerry Robeson, Ph.D.

Talking about how amazing God is, he comes out with this gem of mind-blowing rationality:
Read Job 26:7. It is one thing to create this huge planet out of nothing, but then [...]

The Anthropic Principle exists in over thirty different forms, and it’s an important concept for skeptics to deal with because it is used by both theists and atheists to support their differing cosmological claims. Shall we discuss its implications a little bit?
The term “Anthropic Principle” was originally coined by Brandon Carter in 1974 to [...]