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Entries from March 18th, 2009
And the 12th Most Popular Blog in New Zealand is…..
March 18th, 2009 9 Comments
Just spotted HalfDone’s Half-March blog stats – check out who is sitting at number 12 !!!! HalfDone ranks “all [New Zealand] blogs that post items interesting to the general public” and ranks more New Zealand blogs than Tumeke does. Of course this is not the official March result, but for MandM to have reached the […]
St Patrick’s Day: A Protestants’ Musings
March 17th, 2009 5 Comments
Today is St Patrick’s day. Many tonight will find themselves dressed in green, possibly slurring slightly, with a handle of green Guinness in one hand and most won’t really be certain as to why. Now one wonders why so many people who are not Catholic or Irish feel the need to celebrate a saint on 17 […]
Tags: Religious History · St Patrick
Stop Being a Christian and Start Being a Person
March 16th, 2009 1 Comment
No, not a call to give up Christianity – we just listened to Dr Glenn Peoples’ latest podcast, it is worth hearing. Excellent commentary on Christian sub-culture and our willingness to accept sub-standard music, scholarship, etc just because those offering it to us are part of our club. Glenn calls us to critically assess whatever […]
Tags: Religion in Public Life
What a Night! Hear Dr Steve Kumar, Meet MandM …
March 16th, 2009 2 Comments
Just a reminder for tomorrow night’s event: What: Dr Steve Kumar speaking on Faith and ReasonWhen: Tuesday 17th March – 7:00pmWhere: Lecture Room 2, Laidlaw College, 80 Central Park Drive, Henderson, West AucklandFormat: Talk followed by questions, answers and discussionCost: Free! Hosted by Thinking Matters Auckland (TMA). We will both be there … so see […]
Tags: Announcements · Apologetics · Events
Bill Clinton on "Un-fertilised" Human Embryos [UPDATED]
March 13th, 2009 10 Comments
See this clip for yet another President of the United States who supports human embryonic stem-cell research but has no clue what he is talking about. Bill Clinton says he thinks the issue has become “too politicised” and we should be like him and “hand it back to science.” He says this despite having repeatedly […]
Tags: Bad Reasoning · Embryocide
Some Thoughts on Human Embryonic Stem-cell Research
March 12th, 2009 51 Comments
Given Barack Obama’s reversal of the ban on federal funding for research on new lines of human embryonic stem-cells, I thought I might add my own thoughts on the issues around stem-cell research. My thoughts are somewhat tentative; largely because, unlike many in the media, I don’t see the issues as clear cut or as […]
Tags: Abortion · Embryocide · Ethics · Feticide · Science and Religion
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.
