Matt and Rodney Lake of Thinking Matters Tauranga were both on the flight in this story tonight: “FAA: Delta Flight Makes Emergency Landing in Atlanta.” Matt wrote on Facebook of the first plane being scrapped because it was “not safe”, a second plane being organised in its place. An hour after takeoff the pilot announced there […]
Entries from November 22nd, 2010
News Headlines about the Flight your Husband is on that you DO NOT want to see!
November 22nd, 2010 Comments Off on News Headlines about the Flight your Husband is on that you DO NOT want to see!
Tags: Atlanta · Delta Airlines · Georgia
“Does the Universe Have a Purpose?” Dawkins, Ridley, Shermer v Craig, Geivett, Wolpe (in English)
November 22nd, 2010 30 Comments
Richard Dawkins, Matt Ridley, Michael Shermer debated William Lane Craig, Douglas Geivett, David Wolpe on the topic “Does the Universe Have a Purpose?” on Mexican television on 13 November 2010. This is the english version:
Tags: David Wolpe · Debates · Douglas Geivett · Matt Ridley · Michael Shermer · Richard Dawkins · William Lane Craig
Slides for “God and the Genocide of the Canaanites”
November 21st, 2010 23 Comments
I’m getting a few requests for the PowerPoint slides Matt used for his talk on “God and the Genocide of the Canaanites”, which he gave this morning at the Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Philosophical Society (EPS) in Atlanta, Georgia, 2010. So here they are: Click on the image to download them or click here: […]
Tags: Atlanta · Canaanites · EPS · Genocide
Who’s Visiting?
November 20th, 2010 4 Comments
This is a first! So far today, US visitors outnumber New Zealand ones! I know it is not Matt looking in from Atlanta as he has barely been online since he left. I suspect it is Matt being in Atlanta. Maybe it is a sign that Matt and I reside in the wrong country… we […]
Tags: Blog Traffic
In Atlanta
November 18th, 2010 24 Comments
I have a few snaps of Matt in Atlanta, this first one had our kids excited when they saw it [which should tell you everything you need to know about just how much Matt is a fan of Dr Alvin Plantinga – LOL!] Fellow kiwi Rodney Lake of Thinking Matters Tauranga, also in Atlanta attending the conferences, took […]
Tags: Alvin Plantinga · Atlanta · Craig Hazen · EPS · Francis Beckwith · Georgia · JP Moreland · Mary-Jo Sharp · Mike Licona · Paul Copan · Rodney Lake · SBL · William Lane Craig
Turning the Tables
November 17th, 2010 20 Comments
“The gentleman in the red shirt” shows us a simple lesson in why you should think through what your argument entails before you state it on national television and in front of a live audience. Too often we get tied up in knots trying to answer all the objections hurled at us, especially the specious […]
Tags: Bad Reasoning · Deepak Chopra
Georgia on my Mind
November 13th, 2010 13 Comments
On Tuesday 10 November 2009 I was in Tauranga. I had been commuting from Auckland to Tauranga every Monday to attend lectures for the teaching diploma I was studying towards and then on Tuesdays I would deliver lectures for the adjunct position I had at the same institution in Tauranga. I remember that particular Tuesday well […]
Tags: Atlanta · Evangelical Philosophical Society · Georgia · Society of Biblical Literature

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.




