Case for the Prosecution

Part of our ongoing, and perhaps endless MARS NEEDS WOMEN discussion.

The discussion took an interesting turn, when a reader asked me about an atheist argument in favor of moral objectivity.

Having been an atheist who was convinced of the objective nature of moral law, and who for that reason was puzzled that my hated enemies the Christians somehow came to the correct conclusion based on what I took to be their superstition and irrational worldview while many or most of my allies among the paragons of logic called atheism could not, I certainly have an argument in favor of the proposition.

So this, in a rather rough form, is what I would give as the argument for the Prosecution in the case of Mars v Craig.

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