Morality and Ethics Questions and Answers

What is the connection between the creation/evolution issue and morality?

• The creation basis for morality
• Bomb-building vs. the biblical foundation (the Moral Argument for God explained properly vs. misconceptions)
• Darwinism, morality and the tiger (Quotable Quote by G.K. Chesterton)
• Evolution and social evil (available in Polish and Russian)
• Evolution and Society
• ‘Evolution made me do it!‘
• Evolution — No Morality (Quotable Quote by Lanier and Dawkins)
• The horror generation!
• How to win a debate on ethics
• Humans need ‘moral guidance’, say scientists
• Living like animals
• Mass murderer’s testimony
• Morals decline linked to belief in evolution
• The power of ideas: What you believe does matter
• Reclaiming the nation
• Recycled humans
• The Relevance of Creation
• Religion and science deal with totally different areas?
• Spong and Morality
• Taming your cavemen children?
• Torture—good guys, bad guys and Genesis
• Unlocking the door!
• What basis, morality?
• Why ‘Bad’ Seems ‘Okay’ To Some
• Why kids go ape in school!

What can the church do to begin to reclaim the culture?

• Living in a bubble

How have evolutionary ideas contributed to enormous violence, bloodshed and misery in the world?

• The blood-stained ‘century of evolution’
• Darwin, Spurgeon and the ‘black dog’ — Bad days, suicide, and the meaning of it all
• The Darwin/Trotsky connection
• Frankensteins and foetus dinners
• How to build a bomb in the public school system
• It’s a ‘hard knocks’ life
• Of lettuces and cow-humans
• Rape and evolution
• Teen tragedy
• Terrorists and Death
• The history of the teaching of human female inferiority in Darwinism (see also response to critic who believes in female inferiority)
• Why bother feeding your children?
• See also Q&A: Communism and Nazism, Human life: Abortion and euthanasia, Cloning and racism
• Inside the mind of a killer

What is the connection between evolution and eugenics?

• Eugenics … death of the defenceless: The legacy of Darwin’s cousin Galton
• Dawkins and Eugenics: A leading high priest of evolution reveals its ugly side
• America’s evolutionists: Hitler’s inspiration? (Review of Edwin Black’s book War against the weak: Eugenics and America’s campaign to create a master race)
• H.G. Wells: Darwin’s disciple and eugenicist extraordinaire
• The dark side of evolution
• Lies of Lynchburg
• Eugenics in Vermont

Are there such things as moral absolutes? What about relativism and post-modernism, and the New Age?

• Any absolutes? Absolutely! (Norman Geisler, Christian Research Journal)
• Bomb-building vs. the biblical foundation (why atheism provides no foundation for objective morality)
• Arguments that Commit Suicide (Greg Koukl, Stand to Reason)
• Breaking through the ‘relativity barrier’: How to make points effectively with New Agers (Elliot Miller, Christian Research Journal)
• Confronting the challenge of Ethical Relativism (Douglas Groothuis, Christian Research Journal)
• The tyranny of ‘tolerance’
• The hypocrisy of intolerant ‘tolerance’: Christian schoolgirl failed for refusing ‘gay’ assignment
• Deconstructing liberal tolerance (Francis Beckwith, Christian Research institute)
• Engineering life: human rights in a postmodern age (Jim Leffel, Christian Research Journal)
• Philosophical problems with moral relativism (Francis Beckwith, Christian Research Journal)
• The postmodern challenge: Facing the spirit of the age (Jim Leffel and Dennis McCallum, Christian Research Journal)
• Spong’s World View
• ‘That’s nice for you, but not for me’
• Witnessing tips: Apologetics, truth, and humility (Douglas Groothuis, Christian Research Journal)
• See Q&A: Apologetics: Is there any biblical basis for the New Age or reincarnation?
• What is ‘good’?

Homosexuality: What are the biblical and scientific issues?

• Creationism and the problem of homosexual behaviour (Semi-technical)
• Reply to a homosexual’s Objections to homosexuality article (see also positive feedback on this article)
• The disingenuous and anti-Christian nature of ‘gay rights’ rhetoric
• Homosexual behaviour v the Bible
• Handling the barrage of homosexual half-truths: Resisting strategies that try to make us compromise God’s Word
• Two-part series by Joseph P. Gudel, Christian Research Journal:
  1. Homosexuality: Fact and Fiction (Warning: rather descriptive in one place)
  2. That which is unnatural: Homosexuality in Society, the Church, and Scripture
• The Homosexual Agenda and The Christian Response by Mark Alexander (off-site)
• ‘Evolution made me do it’
• Gays were not created that way
• The Relevance of Creation — Marriage
• Exit SARS … enter same-sex ‘marriages’!

See also the Q&A pages on:

• Family and Marriage
• Human Life: Abortion and Euthanasia