Reg the Fronkey Farmer

Quixotic, eh? – If we had candidates who did not have us tilting at windmills then they would merit a vote 🙂

Would Kant have had much to say on the “duty” of humans who send killer robots to war if they were programed never to kill civilians…..i.e. robots acting with “good intentions”?

I do have a black sense of humor at times. The word I had in mind was Schadenfreude 🙂

I am currently living in Dublin, Ireland. I do spend about a month a year in the USA and a few weeks in Europe. Where are you living Rodrigo?

I don’t really see the Categorical Imperative as a set of rules or laws. Rather it is just a method for deciding how moral a particular action is to be considered in the sense that is deemed universal. If we consider the “Golden Rule” to be applicable to all of humankind then the CI helps to informs us how we should evaluate any action that we ca…[Read more]

Can anyone fill me in on why the Categorical Imperative isn’t a waste of time? Apart from what we learn by pulling it to pieces..

Think of how much you needed to learn and understand in order to be able to do that. 🙂

@ BrightSky  – This is a great post. There is a book called “The Quest for a Moral Compass” by Kenan Malik (a global search for ethics and moral truths) that you might like to check out. I think you have it Simon? I think it is a great book but not everyone does.

For anyone that reads my Sunday School posts you will have seen me writing about how Christians see “The Religious Freedom Act” as the “Religious Privilege Act” that gives them the legal right to discriminate against other citizens. It does not matter if it is the “right” to discriminate against LGBT citizens or the “right” to discriminate against…[Read more]

At the end of the day, one can be an atheist or agnostic or whatever. But one can’t rationally point to evolution as the “science” behind their belief. The science is clearly and critically lacking due to advances in science since 1840 and every day brings more. If one does try to point to Darwinian evolution as to why they are an atheist or agnos…[Read more]

I will be purchasing the book soon – as soon as I finish Faith vs Fact by Jerry Coyne. Too many books on the go!!

I can tell you did not write it over a long Easter weekend 🙂 Do you get much hassle from apologists or those that think you are trying to take something away from them? Dan Barker (FFRF) once told me he did when he published “Godless”.

@rationalrevolution. Congrats on the book. I have read Richard Carrier’s books and Bart Ehrman’s Misquoting Jesus

The books are better than the videos!!

Even Paul who wrote 13 of the 27 NT books only ever met Jesus in a vision!! People have been doubting the existence of Jesus for over 2000 years. The “evidence” is very poor, the similarities…[Read more]

Earle, you do not understand what atheism is. Almost 1 billion atheists in China never even heard of your god. They would have no idea what you are talking about. I asked you yesterday to open your own post to explain the evidence you have for your god. We will take this very seriously if you will show us what it is. I mean it is a very profound…[Read more]

So a bad theory – evolution- which many even evolutionary scientist admit now days has real problems due to the advancement in scientific knowledge in the past 200 years…

Please list some of those scientists names please.

…modern science clearly shows there was a beginning to the physical world– radio isotopes and decaying mat…[Read more]