Adelaide Chapter

The moral argument for the existence of God by Tom Daly

June 27, 2019

Date/Time
Date(s) - 27/06/2019
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Location
Online

Categories

• Existence of God
• Morality
• Regular Meeting

“The Moral Argument for the existence of God” by Tom Daly

When: 7 pm, Thursday 27^th June 2019

Where: Classroom 3 (ground floor), Tabor College, 181 Goodwood Road, Millswood. Carpark entry from Mitchell Street.

In modern Western Cultures today it seems that there is more “moral” outrage and indignation about “right” and “wrong” than ever before. It appears that our anger is growing and that, increasingly, we seem splintered into ever smaller groups with ever opposing yet solidly entrenched views with little hope of consensus on any issue of importance.  There seems little doubt that this moral anger and outrage is being fuelled by social media and often by our unthinking use of these platforms.  In light of this increasing debate about right and wrong, investigation and civil conversation about “morality” and its implications would be valuable.  Tom Daly will present the “moral argument for God” and examine more closely what we actually mean when we claim something to be “good/bad” or “right/wrong” and if this tells us something about ourselves, our ideas, our anger and also something about the existence of God.  We will consider the moral argument for God in light of mankind’s ability to discern right and wrong, and the fact that we seem to be moral beings at our core. Yet scientism tells us that we are merely amoral matter that has developed ideas and feelings of morality by the amoral process of evolution, which, at its core, has what we feel to be the immoral notion that the strong eat the weak. Hopefully we can “reason together”.

Tom Daly

Tom Daly is an IT professional, with over 30 years’ experience and is a graduate of the University of Adelaide. Tom has been asking tough questions of his Christian faith for many years now and is confident that the more scrutiny orthodox Christian faith is subjected to the more it provides a coherent (and breathtaking) worldview.