What is morality?
The other day, my online friend Phillip wrote a short article titled “Refuting Scientism.” We have a lot in common, ranging from our Catholic upbringing to our mutual admiration for the greatest cell phone ever created. But despite that, we do disagree. This is one of those times when I really disagree, and we have decided to turn that disagreement into something positive: an open conversation. Rather than a never ending stream of comments, we will discuss his argument on our respective blogs until we reach a mutual understanding or just get tired of the whole thing. The best part, of course, is that I will be forced to use this darn blog at least once a week! Phillip’s goal is to show that atheists who demand empirical evidence for God are being less picky when it comes to things like morality, which he calls a non-empirical concept. Atheists, then, involve themselves in an “operational self-contradiction,” denying one non-empirical concept and affirming another. My objection, however
