Philosophy Now Forum

Great intro to the concept of paradigms in science
http://chronicle.com/article/Shift-Happens/131580/

As a programmer I am quite a bit frustrated having to learn new languages all the time that all do basically the same thing. Now I am aware that new features do occur and sometimes it is better to rewrite the language for efficiency improvements and yet it all seems like same old same old - loops, l...

I suppose the main quality of a house is that people live in it. I would suggest that the answer lies in somehow proving that saying 'four walls and a roof' is sufficient to know X is a house.

How close to being certain of the truth do you think your method takes you?

I have a theory that God is nothing but a human projection, and it isn't science or intellectual advancement that will completely disprove the Bible or other religions, but simple human psychology mixed with philosophy. Humans are a race that believes itself to be not only important as a whole, but...

C:My late grandmother, my partner, my friends, the luck of having a halfway decent brain and curious outlook and questioning mind. Being born in the West, shall I go on? But that tells us nothing of why you are more enlightened than wootah. It tells us only that you "believe" that your so...

We can only tackle things from the philosophical angle - maybe tbeiter knows something from the legal angle.

I think God Parents should be taken into account as a potential home for an orphan. But I think culturally the role is becoming more symbolic.

Just wondering. Do they - should they?

I was a pretty lazy middle class brat and naturally fell on hard times once I left the safety of home. I found the hard work I did to get out of that situation freeing. I personally haven't found a job I didn't enjoy and whilst I have received welfare I do think that a person is better off working f...

I would like you to not spam the forum but participate and let us discuss your worldview.

bobevenson wrote:If it weren't for cold-blooded murder, none of us would even be here, and there wouldn't be any variety of living organisms at all. Cold-blooded murder is the very foundation of evolution.

I think theistic evolution makes God quite evil.

.Thank you Chaz for posting upon this thread. You, as usual, have added information AND valuable insight. You are correct in identifying the lowland gorilla instead of a chimp. And I like your straight-talk of the urban myth thingy. ... But will you actually take any notice and change your thoughts...

Thundril wrote:There is serious consideration being given,here in the uk, to giving chimps something like human rights, but this is only happening, AFAIK, in some moral-philosophy think tanks. Still it's a start.

The death of rational thought started a long time ago.

I don't think God condemned us to anything until we did something wrong.

What makes voting moral or not?