Jesus, God and morality: Keith Ward vs Daniel Dennett

High profile atheist philosopher Daniel C Dennett goes head to head with Christian theologian Keith Ward in this extract from their debate on mind, consciousness and freewill.

In this excerpt Dennett and Ward debate the source of moral values.

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[barbaraannen]

Hail Lucille. After all the false starts and failed attempts. Finally, the true God.

[biggregg]

JB, you've already answered....no need to answer again. Christians out there. What is you best objective, positive evidence for the Christian God?

[mackdmara]

If you want to talk about the Christian God, that is the definition. Saying you just defined it that way, is like saying I called you what you are. If you're a horse, I would define you as such. It would be wrong to call you a cow if you were a horse. I cannot just randomly choose to redefine you as a cow. It causes confusion.

Like if you said *atheism* was not being sure if there is a God. That is not what atheism means, even if you personally modify it. Your beliefs may be more nuanced than a general title, but it modifies you, not the other way around.

[quantumgravity]

It’s been 2500 years since the death of Aristotle, are we seriously still using his method of proving things?! That kind of logic is all dead with the birth of Kant, the existence of God is not something which can be known, get over it