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The “God doesn’t exist” brownies were delicious!

Here is an interesting article by the very impressive Mary Eberrstadt on Food and Sex.  She argues that food has become what sex was a generation ago.  Food is now charged with moral significance (framed in particular in terms of Kant’s universal law CI), while sex really isn’t.  

Whatever one thinks of the article, one has to praise any paper that has a section subtitle called: ‘Broccoli, Pornography, and Kant’.

The USU chapter of SHAFT (secular humanist atheist free thinkers) is hosting a bake sale – Thursday from 11-2 on the TSC patio.  Come by and show your support!  

(As a theist, I don’t want to vouch for what they will be putting in the brownies …)

Discovered here at Strange Doctrines. The post links to another blog, featuring a blow-by-blow account of a stiff debate between Alvin Plantinga and Daniel Dennett at the Central APA last week. I started reading through it, but then lost interest. I’m disappointed that the reporter came away with the very strong feeling that Dennett behaved jerkishly. I’ve never gotten that impression when I’ve seen Dennett, but then again I’m a convert, I suppose. I’ve also seen Plantinga on occasion, and have always found his demeanor quite kind (pastoral, almost), but his arguments absolutely uncompelling — to the point of being … well, obtuse. Oops! Am I being jerkish?

Here is an nice summary of the Catholic view of the relation between science and faith.  The author (Robert Royal) nicely frames the issue, and then suggests how Catholic philosophy is leading the synthetic charge.