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At 11:51 PM 2/1/99 -0500, Jason Carter wrote:

>>TILL

>>An interesting study for you would be to take an unabridged dictionary and

>>run through the words that are derived from adding the Greek prefix "a" to

>>root words.  You would find "amoral" for example.  An amoral person is one

>>who is "not concerned with moral standards" or "not to be judged by criteria

>>of morality," but such a person would have to be rather stupid to argue that

>>morals simply do not exist, because obviously they do. 

>

>CARTER

>Since you have made the assertion Till, please show me your evidence that

>morals obviously exist. Are you speaking of an objective morality, or

>subjective? Are these morals Platonic, or are they simply "feelings?" Who

>judges right and wrong? 

>Please "TROT OUT" this morality you refer to.

>


TILL
That's easy to do.  Morality is simply shared concepts of right or wrong, so
find any society in which X is considered right or wrong, and you have your
proof that morals exist.  (You can let X be anything you want it to be.)  As
for whether I am speaking of objective morality or subjective morality, all
morality is subjective.  Even if objective morality existed, it would be
impossible to determine what it is. 

Now would you try to address problems of biblical inerrancy that you have
been tiptoeing around ever since you came onto the list?  Or have you tucked
your tail and "ran"?

Farrell Till
Skepticism, Inc.
jftill@midwest.net

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