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humanity

Are you (ever) embarrassed to be human?

December 21, 2016 by Randal

I am. Today, at least, I am. Many things have happened this week which would be sufficient to induce that misanthropic state of mind. But this week the straw that broke this camel’s back came with the story of Grayson Smith, a terminally ill three year old who suffers from more life-threatening medical conditions than most people […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Grayson Smith, hamartiology, humanity, internet, sin

Is the human species sufficiently unimpressive that it supports naturalism over theism?

October 29, 2016 by Randal

Yesterday Jeff Lowder posted the following tweet: I replied: But Jeff disagreed: So if you hear a new heavy album and the guitars sound like they’re being played by second year guitar students, that provides a good reason to think the album wasn’t recorded by Metallica. Sure, all things being equal, that makes sense. (Having […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, atheism, humanity, naturalism, Paul Draper, theism

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

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