Someone emailed us a while ago asking what the difference was between Matt’s classical liberalism and my libertarianism, where did we part company and why did we define ourselves this way. We never answered because we have never really tried to pin it down before, we knew there we differed on some things and we […]
Entries from October 10th, 2008
Voting, the Role of the State and Similarities Between libertarianism and Christianity
October 10th, 2008 14 Comments
Tags: Classical Liberalism · Elections · Libertarianism · Role of the State · Voting
The Point of Intellectual Engagement: Why Thinking Matters
October 9th, 2008 1 Comment
For some faith and reason is an anathema; Christianity is the realm of feelings and is totally separate from academia, reason and logic. After the Craig v Cooke debate a Christian reporter asked me “aside from people being intellectually stimulated, what was the point of having a Christian Philosopher dialogue with an Atheist Historian at […]
Tags: Apologetics · Bnonn · Faith and Reason · Thinking Matters
Recent Comments
October 9th, 2008 7 Comments
I have been messing around with the blog of late. New colour scheme, modication of the layout to three columns, new stats counter, a recent comments widget and a favicon. I have tried 4 different recent comments widgets and none of them are working properly. The current one comes from Storago and yesterday it seemed […]
Tags: Blog Upgrades
Just waiting on a date
October 9th, 2008 3 Comments
Got a letter from ACC this morning: “ACC has approved an application to fund your treatment as follows:Cervical Disc Replacement (Arthoplasty)” They have been sitting on this application for ages despite me being classified as “high priority.” Anyhow, now the hospital has to grant me a surgery date within 4 weeks. Needless to say I […]
Tags: Car Accident · Disc Replacement Surgery
Thoughts on Roast Guinea Pigs and Balancing Freedoms
October 7th, 2008 18 Comments
We have google set to “strict safe search” … you have probably worked out where this is leading, check out the first pic that came up on her search – roasted guinea pig complete with two roast spuds.
Tags: Freedom of Speech · Guinea Pigs · Parental Rights · Tech Problems
Electoral Finance Act Threatens Privacy and Family Home
October 7th, 2008 10 Comments
Imagine coming home to this on your lawn: it’s 1000 knives! No this isn’t something from the “only in America” files it is Bob McCoskrie’s front lawn covered in knives, complete with threatening note related to Bob’s political activities! How did they get his address? Compliments of the Electoral Finance Act; law abiding critics of […]
Tags: Bad Policy · Bob McCoskrie · Elections · Electoral Finance Act · Freedom of Speech · Personal Abuse
Take Nobody’s Word for Anything – Especially Bob Brockie’s
October 3rd, 2008 3 Comments
In one of the definitive discussions of the issue, Philosophers Alvin Plantinga and Robert Pennock debated the teaching of evolutionary theory in public schools of religiously pluralistic societies at the December 1998 meeting of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association. [The following is a crude rendition of the issues in the debate – […]
Tags: Bad Reasoning · Bob Brockie · Christian History · Faith and Reason · Science and Religion · Urban Myths
A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.
