{"id":8546,"date":"2013-02-15T10:16:03","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T18:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/?p=8546"},"modified":"2013-03-06T10:25:32","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T18:25:32","slug":"if-good-and-evil-exist-god-must-exist-prager-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/if-good-and-evil-exist-god-must-exist-prager-university\/","title":{"rendered":"If Good and Evil Exist, God Must Exist (Prager University)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8547\" alt=\"If Good and Evil Exist, God Exists\" src=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Good_Evil_God_01_300px.gif\" width=\"300\" height=\"152\" hspace=\"4\" \/>by Peter Kreeft-<br \/>\nIs there such a thing as objective morality? If there is, does that suggest a moral law giver? Peter Kreeft, distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Boston College, takes on these critical questions and offers some challenging answers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood and evil are not the difference between I like and I don\u2019t like,\u201d observes Professor Kreeft in this video lecture. He conducts a thorough review of the five (5) theoretical sources of morality offered by atheists, and disproves each one using logic, common sense, and historical examples: <!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Evolution<\/li>\n<li>Reason<\/li>\n<li>Conscience<\/li>\n<li>Human Nature<\/li>\n<li>Utilitarianism<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kreeft cites the history of slavery, \u201cwhich was accepted but is not acceptable\u201d, as an example that disproves several of these rationales.  He also notes that, \u201chuman nature is the reason we need morality.\u201d He compares and contrasts moral laws with physical laws.  Moral laws concern \u201cwhat aught to be\u201d and direct human nature.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe existence of morality is something beyond nature, that is supernatural,\u201d says Kreeft. \u201cWhenever you appeal to morality, you are appealing to God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ApVYpBwXWLk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Peter Kreeft- Is there such a thing as objective morality? If there is, does that suggest a moral law giver? Peter Kreeft, distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Boston College, takes on these critical questions and offers some challenging answers. \u201cGood and evil are not the difference between I like and I don\u2019t like,\u201d observes &#8230; <a title=\"If Good and Evil Exist, God Must Exist (Prager University)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/if-good-and-evil-exist-god-must-exist-prager-university\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about If Good and Evil Exist, God Must Exist (Prager University)\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[149,11,15,35,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apologetics","category-intelligent-design","category-moral-issues","category-philosophy","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}