John Loftus will soon release his new book The Christian Delusion: Why Faith Fails. As many readers will be aware John Loftus and the authors of this blog are not strangers to one another so it may not be much of a surprise to discover that the blurbs page of Loftus’ new book features very […]
Entries from January 26th, 2010
John Loftus’ The Christian Delusion: Why Faith Fails
January 26th, 2010 9 Comments
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Distractions
January 26th, 2010 Comments Off on Distractions
I have a summer school assignment due in on Friday (US readers, I am not repeating anything I’m just getting ahead) and we have family stuff happening which is rather distracting to say the least, so sorry for the absence of posts, it shouldn’t last too much longer. Matt has written a lengthy followup post […]
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Christian Blog Carnival CCCXI
January 21st, 2010 4 Comments
The Christian Carnival CCCXI is out now at Fish and Cans. There is a good range in this edition so check it out – it is a good way to discover new blogs. Matt’s post, Inerrancy and Biblical Authority, was featured. We here at MandM are hosting the next Christian Carnival, which will be out […]
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Can State Appropriation of Minerals in Privately Held Land be Justified? Resources Needed
January 20th, 2010 18 Comments
I am currently undertaking my second-to-last paper in pursuit of my Bachelor of Law (LLB). Due to a complicated bunch of factors involving the potential staleness of my papers, if I do not apply to the New Zealand Council of Legal Education for a completion certificate with an LLB and a Professional Legal Studies certificate […]
Tags: Jurisprudence · Law Studies · Minerals · Mining Law · Property Rights · Sub-Soil Land Rights
Sunday Study: Inerrancy and Biblical Authority
January 18th, 2010 46 Comments
Recently Glenn Peoples and Dominic Bnonn Tennant had an interesting exchange over the issue of biblical inerrancy, the doctrine, that the bible contains no errors. In his post, Errantly Assuming Inerrancy in History, Peoples makes this interesting comment, While there has always been a clear expression of the view that what Scripture teaches is correct, […]
Tags: David Brink · Dominic Bnonn Tennant · Glenn Peoples · Inerrancy · Michael Tooley · Sunday Study
Methodology behind the Real Climate Change Science Hockey Stick Graph
January 16th, 2010 7 Comments
You’ll recall the groundbreaking announcement we made in our post Another Climate Change Science Hockey Stick Graph where we revealed the alarming hockey-stick shaped incline in the number of climate change scientists practising in the world today. In that post we suggested that if the trends continued the numbers were unsustainable. Yesterday we intercepted, stole, […]
Tags: AGW · Climate Change · Climategate · Global Warming · Hockey Stick Graph · Murray Hill
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.
The “Three Strikes Bill” Moves Forward
January 19th, 2010 2 Comments
I am cautiously optimistic at today’s announcement that the Sentencing and Parole Reform Bill a.k.a. the “Three Strikes Bill” will be moving forward as part of the government’s legislative program. In my post Three Strikes: Proportion and Protection, which was published in the New Zealand Law Students Association publication LEX, I argued that the “apparent […]
Tags: Justice · Public Policy · Punishment · Three Strikes Bill