tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708139263643046536.post8014608631965045475..comments2024-03-28T14:59:42.168-04:00Comments on Kresta In The Afternoon: Today on Kresta - June 1, 2009Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708139263643046536.post-17904312371887647992009-06-01T17:24:30.690-04:002009-06-01T17:24:30.690-04:00After listening to the portion of the show involvi...After listening to the portion of the show involving Charles Darwin, I have to say I am somewhat confused by the logic of Mr. Walker. Although I have not read his book, in which my complaints might be addressed, he seemed to imply that if a theory had bad consequences it somewhat would make it not true. This is an attempt to apply the appeal to consequences to an epistemological argument, which is a fallacy. If for some reason the Pythagorean Theorem caused people to go murder each other, it still would be true that in a flat plane the sum of the squares of the legs of a right triangle would equal the square of the hypotenuse.<br /><br />In addition, his argument that Evolution cannot explain morality is simply ill-informed. There is an overwhelming amount of evidence that it can, and indeed does. I do not know whether or not the author was simply not informed or chose to bury his head in the sand on this topic. Other than that I am interested in reading his book to get a better idea of what his arguments are saying.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com