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Should Armenia be considered Middle East? Poll! Armenia has historic ties to the Persian, Roman, and Greek empires. Armenia has cultural similarities to other Caucasus nations, such as Georgians and Azeris. Armenians resemble other Caucasus people, such as Georgians and Azeris. Armenia is a...

Which languages can you correctly pronounce? Which languages do you understand? Which languages do you speak fluently or at a native speaker's level?

No, let's make a distinction here between Muslims and Islam, that is often overlooked. There is no Islam without sharia or jihad. This doesn't mean that a person identifying with the religion either knows about nor cares about these passages, but they are there. And as Muslims become more...

I have read the violence of the Old Testament. I find it abhorrent. But I have a few things to say about it. The violence of the old testament is descriptive not prescriptive as it is in the Quran. Besides, a great deal of the old testament laws associated with temple worship are no longer...

Intuitive morality Some defend moral absolutism by claiming 'moral values' are a property we detect with a special faculty of moral perception. But notice this is no longer supporting divine existence as the moral argument is claimed to. And only proposing new phenomenon in need of their own...

Deontological moralityWhen William Lane Craig says that we have "absolute moral duties" is to say we have certain moral obligations regardless whether or not we think we do. This is a concept with similar empirical in-conceptual problems. If absolutely no one is aware of a duty to do X, the idea...

Morality refers to the concept of human ethics which pertains to matters of good and evil — also referred to as "right or wrong". Morality is generally discussed within three contexts: matters of individual conscience; systems of principles and judgments — sometimes called moral values —...

I agree with you that the existence of our universe requires an explanation, and origin, but what makes you think that origin or cause or reason is God? If you only answer "who created the Universe"' it may not occur to you that the true answer might not be in the form of a "who" but of a "what".

Questions for users: 1. Are you moral absolutist? 2. Are you moral relativist? 3. Do you believe in objective moral values and duties? 4. Are you cognitivist or non-cognitivist?

Absolute morality postulates that what is moral and what is immoral is independent of circumstances and unchanging. It is very popular with religion believers because it fits their use of holy texts to determine morality. The opposite view is moral relativism. Assuming absolute morality is the...

Objective morality is the idea that a certain system of ethics or set of moral judgments is not just true according to a person's subjective opinion, but factually true. Proponents of this theory would argue that a statement like "Murder is wrong" can be as objectively true as "1 + 1 = 2." Most...

Extreme skepticism is a niche philosophical position of adopting extreme doubt of all knowledge. Proponents fundamentally doubt the reliability of their senses, memory and cognition, which in turn implies the impossibility of belief in anything. This view tends towards perpetual indecision...

In western philosophy, skepticism is, broadly speaking, the attitude of systematically doubting knowledge claims. However, skepticism actually encompasses a range of views and philosophies. Skeptics have challenged the adequacy or reliability of many speculative claims, such as the existence of...

Response to Problems of Scientific Realism: The No-Miracles Argument does not rest on the assumption that the best explanation is the true one, but that it only rests on the assumption that we should accept the best explanation. It’s just that accepting the best explanation entails truth in this...

Scientific Realism makes three kinds of claims: 1. Metaphysical - There is an external world that is mind-independent. 2. Semantic – ex. “Should scientific claims be construed literally?” 3. Epistemological – Scientific theories are approximately true “The positive argument for...