Posts Tagged ‘philosophy’

Everyone’s Entitled

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

“Everyone’s entitled to their opinion.”
“I disagree, but that’s just my opinion.”
I don’t really disagree, but isn’t the person who says “everyone’s entitled to their own opinion” asserting that this maxim is true for everyone, when based on their thinking, only they should be entitled to their own opinion because that’s their opinion.
How much easier it [...]

Keep That To Yourself

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

Relativism is really only a good idea at most and untenable and contranatural at least. One can claim that another can believe whatever he likes, but the moment that freedom granted to another is used to impinge on what the one is comfortable with, feelings of what’s right and wrong come out. In other words, [...]

Alvin Plantinga 2007 Norton Lectures at SBTS MP3s

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

Science and Religion: Why Does the Debate Continue? (October 23, 2007)
Divine Action in the World (October 24, 2007)
Ph.D. Graduate Club luncheon (October 24, 2007)
Evolution vs. Atheism (October 25, 2007)

(I have added ID3 tags to make them mp3 player-friendly and hosted them here because of the slow download speeds on the SBTS server and hat tip [...]

Creed for Modern Thinkers

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

[Food for thought from Steve Turner:]
Here is the creed for the modern thinker. We believe in Marx, Freud and Darwin. We believe everything is okay, as long as you don’t hurt anyone to the best of your definition of hurt and to your best definition of knowledge. We believe in sex before, during and after [...]