Tag Archives: Ethics

Riots in England: Spiritual Collapse and a Prediction Tragically Fulfilled

Thirty-two years ago Josh McDowell addressed students at Campus Crusade for Christ’s Institute for Biblical Studies with a sobering message. Obviously humans have been inflicting violence on one another for as long as we’ve been around, but Josh had a prediction to add to that shared knowledge: that the nature of that violence was about …

August 15, 2011 – 12:51 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics, Life and Choices, The Faith, Thinking Christianly | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (10)

“Cerebration » Blog Archive » Crises in Somalia and Kenya”

“The United Nations estimates it will take $1.4 billion to save the lives of some 12 million people across the horn of Africa in Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya and Djibouti. The emergency is expected to persist for at least three to four months, possibly peaking in August and September.” [From Cerebration » Blog Archive » Crises …

August 15, 2011 – 9:12 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Deep Social Change, Ethics | Tagged | Comments Off

Jerry Coyne: Either Culpable Ignorance, Or Else … ?

Update again, 10/20/11: I bid a hearty welcome to visitors from Dr. Coyne’s website. (I appreciate the link, Dr. Coyne.) He seems to have a policy of not allowing my comments to remain on his site, except for those that he can twist to suit his own purposes, as I have indicated in my earlier …

August 4, 2011 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics, New Atheism | Tagged , , | Comments (134)

But Corrective Punishment Makes Perfect Sense, Right?

I was listening to Reasonable Doubts on the way to work this morning. Reasonable Doubts is a strictly atheistic blog with an associated weekly podcast it, and this episode was to have Tom Clark, of the Center for Naturalism, as a special guest. Tom and I have our strong disagreements, yet I would regard him …

July 13, 2009 – 11:52 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics, Origins and Science | Tagged , | Comments (107)

Tom Clark, Empiricism, and Ethics, Part Two

This entry is part 5 of 5 in the series Tom Clark and Naturalism

I’m certainly more than overdue to respond to Tom Clark here, and now finally there is opportunity to do so. It has been so long since the last post on this topic, and this answer will run so long, that I’m publishing it as a new blog post. First, I want to state my agreement …

April 17, 2009 – 4:51 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics, Origins and Science | Tagged , , | Comments (41)

An Open Letter to the Atheist Ethicist

An open letter to Alonze Fyfe, “The Atheist Ethicist.” CC: Any atheistic, agnostic, or skeptical reader with an interest in ethics Greetings, Alonzo, You have remained strangely silent on the matter of reading opposing views, after I have asked you several times (starting here; also here and here) whether that is something you have made …

April 10, 2009 – 5:57 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics | Tagged | Comments (207)

“Did Evangelicals Curb the Housing Bubble? – NYTimes.com”

From the New York Times: A new study by Christopher W. Crowe, an economist for the International Monetary Fund, found that during the last two housing booms in the United States, regions with high concentrations of evangelicals saw lower gains in home prices and less volatility than similar regions with fewer evangelical residents. The reason …

March 30, 2009 – 10:06 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Deep Social Change, Ethics | Tagged | Comments (4)

Tom Clark, Empiricism, and Ethics

This entry is part 4 of 5 in the series Tom Clark and Naturalism

After a two-month hiatus, it’s my pleasure once again to take up conversation with Tom Clark, director of the Center for Naturalism, who also runs the website Naturalism.org and the Memeing Naturalism blog. Our first three rounds on this were interesting and productive, in my opinion, and apparently also Tom’s. Previously we discussed whether his approach …

March 26, 2009 – 11:11 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics, Origins and Science | Tagged , , , | Comments (4)

Mary Midgley’s Moral System: Not The Answer I Was Looking For

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Mary Midgley and Ethics

In my previous posts on Mary Midgley’s view of morality, I noted my appreciation for her unwillingness to accept reductionist explanations (especially for human experience), and her nearly answering a lifelong question of mine: is there really no way to ground a solid sense of morality apart from God? At the end of each post …

March 24, 2009 – 6:00 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics, Origins and Science | Tagged , , , | Comments (37)

“Edward Feser: Scruton on the New Atheism”

Edward Feser’s prediction: And things are only going to get worse. Much much worse. Brace yourselves. Read why he thinks so. I’m afraid he’s probably right.

March 22, 2009 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics, New Atheism | Tagged | Comments (4)