LINK: Is Moral Autonomy Incompatible with the Existence of God?

[This post was originally published on The Secular Outpost on October 26, 2011. It was republished here on November 8, 2021 with the date manually adjusted to reflect its original publication date. The link was also updated to its current location.]

The late James Rachels wrotes an essay, "God and Moral Autonomy," in which he defends an argument for the nonexistence of God based on the impossibility of a being worthy of worship. Peter Lupu and Bill Vallicella have an interesting exchange about the argument on the latter's Maverick Philosopher blog (see here).

LINK: Two Sites Related to Darwinian Ethics

[This post was originally published on The Secular Outpost on October 9, 2011. It was republished here on November 7, 2021 with the date manually adjusted to reflect its original publication date. The link was also updated to its current location.]

While web browsing, I stumbled across two sites related to nontheistic and/or Darwinian ethics. Pretty much anyone interested in The Secular Outpost will probably be interested in both of these sites and for the same reasons.

1. The website for the late James Rachels. For those of you who do not know who James Rachels was, he was an important moral philosopher. Among his many publications were an interesting argument for atheism (republished on the Secular Web) and his book, Created from Animals: The Moral Implications of Darwinism. The entire text of that book, along with several other books and articles, are available for free on that site.

2. Larry Arnhart's blog, "Darwinian Conservatism." Arnhart is the author of Darwinian Natural Right: The Biological Ethics of Human Nature, a magisterial defense of a secular approach to ethics that is Aristotelian, Humean, and Darwinian.