Albuquerque based website True Freethinker is reporting on the new book by "New Atheist" Sam Harris which is titled “The Moral Landscape." The following is from part two of the report (part one is found here):

...typical Sam Harris; get you feeling something real so that any logic that attempts to overturn his argument seems oh so very abstract and ethereal. What is an idea compared to an emotion? One is tangible the other is not. How do you argue against emotion? Keep this in mind as it is a favorite New Atheist tactic. Indeed, within paragraphs he will mention “raping children,” “a 9-year-old girl raped by her stepfather” oh and that the Catholic Church did “not excommunicate a single member of the Third Reich for committing genocide.”

His premise was “human flourishing.” But why? Perhaps his book The Moral Landscape will tell, perhaps not. But, indeed, why? Why should I be concerned about human flourishing? Because I am human? Well, that is merely speciesism (a prejudice towards my own species and against others).
This is part of why atheistic ethics or morals are an infinite regress of assertions: when they assert that the premise is human flourishing you can ask why? When whatever answer is given is given, you will note that it is another assertion of which you can ask, “Why?” When whatever answer is given is given, you will note that it is another assertion of which you can ask, “Why?” When whatever answer is given is given, you will note that it is another assertion of which you can ask, “Why?” And on it goes down the bottomless rabbit hole (another aspect of why atheist ethics/morals fail is found at this link).

Well, we will just have to see of what Sam Harris' book The Moral Landscape actually consists and give it a fair reading even if, in typical style, he smuggles atheism in through the back door of science (actually, he brings it directly into the front door and with no apologies).

Here is a sample of my debate with an atheist on the issue of morality [see side bar for video clip]:

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