Archive for January, 2008
Liberals and Conservatives
Liberals and conservatives differ in many ways but three of most significant and the easiest to see differences are in how they view themselves, how they view each other and how they see freedom and equality. Conservatives for the most part see themselves as conservatives. They are one part of a spectrum of ideas all [...]
Read More..>>A Review of Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion Part XIV
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In this part of my review of Richard Dawkins’, “The God Delusion” I will continue my look at Dawkins’ speculations on the roots of morality. Dawkins rejection of God and acceptance of evolution forces him to find an evolutionary basis of morality. He admits that “On the face of it, the Darwinian [...]
Age of Emotion
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We live in an age of emotion. Society is always in flux, changing, moving, and it is the same with emotion, and its counterpart reason. The last few hundred years have been called the age of reason as until very recently, reason was the dominate of the two. But over the last [...]
The Grand Experiment
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One of the main ongoing debates between Christians and Atheists is over the foundation for morality. Christians believe that morality in inherently tied to God. To reject God, is to reject the foundation for morality. Atheist often distort this into a claim that atheist are immoral. This however is not the case. [...]
A Review of Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion Part XIII
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In the last part of my review of Richard Dawkins’, “The God Delusion” I discussed Dawkin’s speculations on the origin of religion. In Chapter six Dawkins continues his speculations or the Roots of morality with all the same faults and some new ones. I looked forward to this chapter with great interest, [...]