[caption id="attachment_36419" align="alignright" width="225" caption="Photo by Marco Bellucci"][/caption] When we claim to know that torturing toddlers for sport is morally wrong because of our direct awareness of the injustice of the behavior, we are justified or warranted in our claim to knowledge, unless or until a defeater of our belief arises. I...... >Read More

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Photo by nostalgic-minds Last time I claimed that our experience of the moral order through our moral sense is on a similar footing as our experience of physical objects through our physical senses. They are both a direct experience or awareness of reality. Now clearly, there is also a difference. Our physical senses all work with empirical data....... >Read More

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Here are the lecture notes given at the Apologetics Canada Conference, March 10, 2012 in Surrey, B.C. Evidence for God from Morality                     "Is There Any Real Right or Wrong" article (free download)                        ...... >Read More

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[caption id="attachment_36136" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Photo by Jeremy M Farmer"][/caption] How do you know objective moral values and obligations exist? You haven’t proved it. You are just manipulating people’s emotions with these examples, and this conclusion is based on nothing more than feelings, not evidence!” Last...... >Read More

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Can't people who don't believe in God be just as moral as those who do? Why   say that the existence of human morality points to the existence of a "Higher Power"? Track with the live debates and get more info at ultimatequestions.org If God does not exist then objective moral principles and obligations do not exist. Morality would... >Read More

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Is sex wrong? Why are all the things that are fun and exciting wrong according to Christians? Why would a God who loved say that you can not do things that are fun? Why would he make the people that he loved live boring lives? watch video by Michael Horner Consider this, is driving a car wrong? No. Is driving... >Read More

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watch video by philosopher Michael Horner Morals and ethics are best learned as it is observed in the life of another. It's best learned in relationship with one who is an impeccable model of morals and ethics. We suggest Jesus Christ. No, not the Christian religious system . . . the man Jesus Christ. The essence of Christianity is not...... >Read More

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