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Sustaining The Argument • Putting The ‘Me’ In Meaning • Pieces of Minds/Brains • Free Won’t? • Civil Wars Of Words

Sustaining The Argument

Dear Editor: In his article ‘Ecological Ethics’ in Issue 88, Tim Madigan offers the idea, “Some theists have argued that humans occupy a privileged position… This attitude is now being challenged by theists who maintain that God wishes humans to be stewards … of life on Earth – thereby showing the malleability of Scriptural interpretation.” This doesn’t follow. If some of my students believe 2+2=4 and others say 2+2=5, it doesn’t show the malleability of mathematical laws. It might show some of them need a lesson in maths.

In fact, the idea that human beings are privileged stewards is needed not just by theists, but by anyone who wants to make a case for environmental preservation rather than exploitation.

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