The Distant Collegian and I have been discussing the following question from the WorldView quiz I posted a while back:

Our ethical nature is pre-programmed.

In the comments to that post I argued that the correct answer is agreed because of the following passage of Romans:

Rom. 2:14-15 For when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively ( Read more... )

In response to Wrathius and Jim Anderson's comments regarding my previous post:
However, when posts like Witt's are framed in terms of accused censorship (we're a minority of anti-darwinists and we're persecuted for disagreeing!") - Wrathius

I am afraid I do not see complaints of censorship in regard to this post, although he has made such ( Read more... )

Over on Wrathius's blog, Ratiocination, he recently posted on an Intelligent Design controversy saying this:

Supporters of intelligent design only look bad when tomfoolery like this takes place.

To this, I have several comments:

Assuming that the Tomfoolery is the track back deleting accusation on decorabilia, I am not convinced that the ( Read more... )

I don't normally do online quizzes, but I noticed that Cameron and Wendy had taken the World View quiz and thought that one might be interesting. Here is what I got:


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The last couple days have been pretty good/interesting.

Yesterday evening was wrap up for our church camp (usually Washington Youth Camp, but due to lack of youth, it became Evergreen @ the Dunes this year), so I got to talk to some friends I hadn't seen for a while.  At the after wrap up pizza party we always do at Alfy's I learned that Jody is ( Read more... )

Tanus has posted a follow up article to my response on the bombing of Japan here. He makes some good points which I will be responding to in this article.

Conventional War would have Killed More People

-Deontological vs. Utilitarian Argument-

In response to it, I would first like to refer you back to some analysis I made earlier, which attacks ( Read more... )

MisterLarry replied to my previous response and here is my reply to that. To clarify, MisterLarry is a Xanga reader, not a reader of my LiveJournal mirror.

The Tragedy of Death

Death is
tragedy. Every death, every time. It is especially tragic when it is
caused by a willful and knowingly murderous act as with the bombing
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Yesterday, misterlarry commented on my article about the atomic bombing of Japan.  He had the following to say:

so then, arthenor, in the case of the US' support of Israel as well as the exploitation of third-world persons by US corporations, the complacence of Americans to this, and support of the institutions that do this are thus in some way ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I was listening to Mark Taylor filling in for Hugh Hewitt and he had Dr. "Fuz" Rana as a guest on the show for the last hour and he made several points which disturbed me.

First, he tried to divorce science from nature, arguing that science is really an approach to determining truth, not a method of observing and understanding nature.  ( Read more... )

In response to Tanus's blog opposing the dropping of atomic weapons in Japan at:

Tanus on the Atomic Bombings on Japan

I happen to be on the other side of this opinion.  As for the idea that the Japanese wouldn't surrender to conventional warfare, I think you are straw manning to position on this point.  The position, as I pointed out above, is ( Read more... )