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Thanks for the links, the book is called 'what is justice?' and was edited by Robert Solomon and Mark Murphy. A few comments on those sources: - Many people seem to cite cultural context in dealing with the 'the 2 female witnesses = 1 male witness thing', claiming that women did not normally...

Hey, I was recently reading a book of excerpts on the concept of justice which included a part of the Quran which describes how one should act regarding monetary obligations (Baqarah 2:282 I think). I came across a passage which seemed to imply that women were inferior, or at least less capable...

Careful with that one, that kind of doubting is equally damaging to science - you would at least have to throw studies involving self reporting of experiences in the same basket as that which T-mac01 describes.

Perhaps I missed this proof when you provided it. Could you either type the proof up or direct me to it - using modal logical as well if you can (I assume you're trying to show that god is a necessary truth). EDIT: Assuming that this quote plays I part in your argument I feel that I...

I disagree. I would argue that to disregard the experiences of god's presence as brain chemistry does not show a lack of understanding of how such an experience could lead someone to believe in god. One can understand another's reasoning while disagreeing with it. The existence of god is a...

His initial 50/50 assumption is extremely dodgy - I could take the 50/50 'neutral' perspective on any rediculous proposition such as 'Free will was created by extra-dimensional dragons', 'after death we exist as beings of energy in a hyperbolic sphere', 'we are brains in vats, fed experiences by...

I have serious doubts that you have this 'proper understanding' or that a person could ever calculate the odds of gods existence. You might come to a statement like "it is unlikely/likely" but do you really think you would be able to quantify such a statement? On the other hand, I may simply be...

Beautiful quote, but why should the elation that a person can feel necessarily be the granduer of god. You can replace such a phrase with the beauty of nature, the awe-inspiring nature of the universe or the blissful harmony of a peaceful mind. I believe that transcendence can be reached in a...

Tres amusing slidey, how goes it?

Humans are animals. If you also take no issue with humans killing each on the grounds of it being a 'natural process' then that's fine, otherwise it seems a tad anthrocentric. I'm using right to life and right to exist in the same sense. If someone has a right to freedom and you restrict...

Certainly, if the path of questioning and skepticism is followed as far as one can follow it a kind of absurdity is reached where one finds the self-cannibalization of reason itself (perhaps the dominant problem of much of western philosophy). I have no issue with belief per se, it is more the...

While there is the matter of what beliefs make you happy one still cannot deny that inner beliefs have an effect on the outside world. This brief parable by William Clifford helps to illustrate the danger of false beliefs: "A shipowner was about to send to sea an emigrant-ship. He knew that...

Haha, you did it justice dude. It's good to find out that I'm speaking english here.

I never said we were inferior to animals because we kill them. I was pointing out that we take issue when it comes to killing humans and turn a blind eye when animals die. I was wanting to know why some individuals are fine with killing animals but are totally against killing people (why do...

You have me a little confused here. A few questions: - What does this sentence mean?: "animals kill other animals does not thatmean they an notion of status?" - By laws do you mean those that are put in place to govern a country? If so, don't you think they need some form of justification...

Obviously you missed the point. You can approach the 'right to life' in both ways, why someone has the right not to have their life taken away or why someone shouldn't kill. It's an important question and you haven't provided an argument for or against it. Another approach to get at the same...

Women perform stronger when it comes to certain verbal skills. In any case the differences are pretty negligible and there's nothing stopping a woman from being a great mathematician (except perhaps society) or a man from being a great writer. Fewer women have 'contributed to human knowledge'...

- Contraceptives have a natural failure rate, they are not perfect. Your statistic is wrong. - The 'unborn victims of violence act' in no way acts as a proof that everyone is of the view that an embryo/fetus is human. Consider this: the president's council on bioethics is made of of...

If you had ever seen images of a conceptus at two weeks you should realise that it's incorrect to assert that you kill a breathing human infant. It's very much still a mass of cells by that point. A child has little chance of breathing at 20 weeks, let alone 2 (lungs are something of a...

Let us know what the qualities of your god are and then we'll be able to debate on the grounds of your god. e.g. are they omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient? Do they possess a human form? Do they possess free will? etc... What makes your god who they are?