{"id":12545,"date":"2011-04-11T12:25:27","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T16:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=12545"},"modified":"2011-04-11T12:25:27","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T16:25:27","slug":"the-foundation-for-objective-moral-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-foundation-for-objective-moral-values\/","title":{"rendered":"The foundation for objective moral values"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A debate between Sam Harris and William Lane Craig on where moral values come from and whether atheists have grounds for believing in objective moral values.<br \/>\nThe whole series is well worth watching. I am, of course, biased but it seems fairly clear that Sam Harris didn\u2019t fare too well. He never came to grips with the problem of his tautological definitions of \u201cgood\u201d and \u201cevil\u201d, preferring, instead, to eschew logic and employ the decoy of making emotionally indignant appeals to examples of our or God\u2019s \u2013 the God he claims isn\u2019t there &#8211; moral failures, along with other randomly selected red-herrings.<br \/>\nWilliam Lane Craig, on the other hand, pounds his points home with remorseless logic.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7UigeMSZ-KQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rh8FU2UlHp4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L2CJgPTOHSY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lmeSjF6CSQA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ljXCHgPaZO4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wAcdg2RlUJY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pa2fHkpOfoA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A debate between Sam Harris and William Lane Craig on where moral values come from and whether atheists have grounds for believing in objective moral values. The whole series is well worth watching. I am, of course, biased but it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-foundation-for-objective-moral-values\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[2049,1385,1628],"class_list":["post-12545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism","tag-atheism","tag-sam-harris","tag-william-lane-craig"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}