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agency

Can animals sin?

July 14, 2014 by Randal

For centuries, theologians and philosophers alike have maintained an absolute categorical distinction between human beings and other animals. According to this assumption human beings are moral agents who are capable of both moral virtue and moral vice. They are also linguistic agents who are capable of speech. Animals, by contrast, are neither moral nor linguistic. No […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: agency, chimpanzee, evolution, humanity, moral nature, morality, personhood

Finding Divine Signs: A response to Jonathan Pearce

July 14, 2013 by Randal

In chapter 17 of God or Godless I argue “God best explains the miracles in people’s lives.” It should be stressed by “miracle” I don’t mean “a violation of natural law” or “an event with no secondary cause” or anything else of that sort. Rather, I mean something like this: that for a subset of […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: agency, explanation, Jonathan Pearce, miracle, naturalism

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