Episodes
Sunday Jun 26, 2011
61: Impermanence of Time
Sunday Jun 26, 2011
Sunday Jun 26, 2011
The best argument against the existence of God that I have ever heard makes a mistake you see more often in "young earth" creationism. It's the belief that time has a permanence, an importance, even a "reality" that we frankly should not trust. Ironically, tracing the philosophy of religion through an argument that has led me to question this faith in time ... well, it requires a greater number of minutes than usual. Different Drummer: Norman Kretzmann
Wednesday Jun 15, 2011
60: Ten Areas of Agreement about Abortion - part 2
Wednesday Jun 15, 2011
Wednesday Jun 15, 2011
6) America could not provide adoptive homes for more than a million children per year over limitless successive years. 7) After agreeing to pay a clinic several hundred dollars, a woman does not need an extra day of waiting to decide if she is doing the right thing. 8 ) Most Americans do not know the names and telephone numbers of more than 30,000 women, and certainly none can name that many new acquaintances for each calendar year. 9) If doctors never study or practice the abortion procedure, then an emergency abortion to save the life or health of a pregnant woman is less likely to be safe and free from complications. 10) If a person threatens the life or welfare of a man's wife, most of us would understand the man's decision to kill this assailant -- even if we wouldn't take that same action ourselves for moral reasons. Different Drummer: Aristotle
Sunday Jun 12, 2011
59: Ten Areas of Agreement about Abortion - part 1
Sunday Jun 12, 2011
Sunday Jun 12, 2011
1) Abortion is not murder. 2) Abortion is a bad thing. 3) Human beings are a species in no danger of extinction. 4) You can stop abortion only by eliminating the demand, not the supply. 5) The immorality of abortion will not be reduced by making the practice stringently illegal. Different Drummer: Tony Kaye