In “Why Traditional Theism Cannot Provide an Adequate Foundation for Morality” Walter Sinnott Armstrong criticises William Lane Craig’s contention that theism, if true, provides an adequate foundation for morality. Armstrong contends that Craig’s position is “incredible”[1] and subject to a “cavalcade of devastating objections.”[2] He goes on to conclude that his criticisms do not just […]
Entries from September 25th, 2009
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Infantile Religious Morality
September 24th, 2009 71 Comments
Tags: Divine Command Theory · Ethics · God and Morality · Patrick Nowell Smith · Philosophy of Religion · Richard Mouw · Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
MandM win M&M’s
September 23rd, 2009 Comments Off on MandM win M&M’s
Over the weekend Matt entered one of those count the number of lollies in the jar competitions and won the competition. So last night he brought home his prize, a jar full of jaffa M&M’s. I couldn’t resist sharing a pic of MandM with the M&M’s especially now that we live in Auckland. They are […]
Tags: M&Ms
Published – Three Strikes: Proportion and Protection
September 22nd, 2009 2 Comments
The editor of the New Zealand Law Students Association (NZLSA) publication LEX has just advised me that she has published my article “Three Strikes: Proportion and Protection.” In it I argue that the objections to the The Sentencing and Parole Reform Bill (a.k.a the “Three Strikes Bill”) on the basis that it affronts the proportionality […]
Tags: Public Policy · Publication · Punishment · Three Strikes Bill
The 2009 Forum on the Family: A Review
September 20th, 2009 11 Comments
On Friday Madeleine and I attended the Forum on the Family and the following is our long awaited (and long) review of it. The Forum kicked off with an impassioned talk from Bev Adair. Bev gave a harrowing account of her own story of childhood physical and sexual abuse and subsequent encounter with God that […]
Tags: Bev Adair · Bob McCoskrie · Bruce Pilbrow · David Farrar · Family First · Greg Fleming · John Key · Maxim Institute · Phil Goff
Pulse Check
September 20th, 2009 3 Comments
We have not fallen off the face of the earth, just too much on. Auckland Bloggers drinks was very cool, extremely packed out and seriously a who’s who of blogging – for a list of who may or may not have been present see Ryan Sproull’s write up of the night. We then went straight […]
Tags: Andy Moore · Dave Crampton · David Farrar · Forum on the Family
Tekton E-Book: John Loftus’ Why I Became an Atheist Refuted Feat. MandM
September 17th, 2009 5 Comments
Tekton Education and Apologetics ministries have released an online book, John Loftus’ Why I Became an Atheist Refuted, as a special edition for their E-Block Online Journal. While most of the book is authored by JP Holding, Chapter 2 is not completely, Chapter 2: “The Christian Illusion of Rational and Moral Superiority” — Two part […]
Tags: Divine Command Theory · E-Book · God and Morality · John Loftus · JP Holding · Tekton Apologetics Ministries
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.
VSM Bill off to Select Committee
September 25th, 2009 3 Comments
The VSM Bill has passed its first reading and is off to Select Committee. Predictably the student associations have freaked out and David Farrar has an interesting fisk of the various press releases they’ve issued in response here. Given that Madeleine and I were involved in the move to make student associations voluntary in the […]
Tags: David Farrar · Voluntary Student Membership