Francesca Minerva and Alberto Giubilini‘s article “After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?” published in the Journal of Law, Ethics and Medicine is creating waves the world over. In a few hours, on the morning of Thursday 1 March, around 10:00am New Zealand time, Dr Minerva will be interviewed on this article on Radio Rhema’s Pat Brittenden [...]
Entries from February 29th, 2012
Francesca Minerva and Matthew Flannagan on “After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?” on Radio
February 29th, 2012 39 Comments
Tags: Abortion · Alberto Giubilini · Feticide · Francesca Minerva · Infanticide · Michael Tooley · Pat Brittenden · Peter Singer · Radio Rhema
Jerry Coyne on God and Morality Revisited
February 23rd, 2012 40 Comments
Late last year I, wrote a criticism of Jerry Coyne’s piece in USA today. Entitled, As atheists know, you can be good without God. My critique attracted some attention. Getting commentary from Mary Ann Spikes, Jason Thibodeau, Jeffery Lay Lowder, and Brian Zamulinski. Since the USA today article Coyne has written a follow up article where [...]
Tags: Divine Command Theory · Jerry Coyne · New Atheists · Robert Adams · William Lane Craig
Matt on “The Panel” on Pat Brittenden Mornings – with David Slack
February 21st, 2012 2 Comments
Tune in to Radio Rhema at 11:40am (NZ time) today to hear this blog’s Matthew Flannagan and David Slack discuss topical issues on “The Panel” on Pat Brittenden morning. You can download the MP3 here or listen online here.
Tags: David Slack · Pat Brittenden · Radio Rhema
Madeleine Registered
February 19th, 2012 6 Comments
News that many may have missed while we were in our moving house and not blogging mode is that Madeleine has been admitted to the Register of Lawyers, this means that she may now practice law and work in the areas restricted by law for lawyers. You can even go to the New Zealand Law [...]
Tags: Coast Legal · Law Studies
Thinking Matters Youth Conference
February 16th, 2012 2 Comments
This Saturday is the first, of hopefully many, Thinking Matters Youth Conference, the schedule is below. I am leading a breakout session on Moral Relativism WHEN: Saturday, February 18 WHERE: Greenlane Christian Centre, 17 Marewa Rd, Greenlane, Auckland COST: $10 Schedule: 10am Registration 10.30am Jeff Tallon – Is Science a Threat to Faith? 11.30am Sean [...]
Tags: Apologetics · God and Morality · Relativism · Thinking Matters · Tim McGrew
Philosophia Christi: Abstract Objects and Divine Command Ethics Down-Under
February 14th, 2012 1 Comment
In December we were told that Matt’s article “Tooley, Plantinga and the Deontological Problem of Evil” had passed peer review and would be published in Philosophia Christi. Issue, 13: 2 is now out and if you look at the contents page you’ll see Matt’s article has now been published. The abstract to Matt’s article is as follows: [...]
Tags: Divine Command Theory · Glenn Peoples · Philosophia Christi · Publication · Published
Is Ethical Naturalism more Plausible than Supernaturalism? A Reply to Walter Sinnott-Armstrong Part I
February 7th, 2012 9 Comments
This is first half of the paper I presented to the Naturalisms in Ethics Conference at Auckland University last year. In many of his addresses and debates William Lane Craig has defended a Divine Command Theory of moral obligation (“DCT”). In a recent article Walter Sinnott-Armstrong has criticized this contention.[1] Armstrong contends that even if [...]
Tags: Divine Command Theory · God and Morality · Robert Adams · Walter Sinnott-Armstrong · William Lane Craig
Alvin Plantinga Calling for an Argument
February 4th, 2012 6 Comments
We moved house recently but before we got the telephone services disconnected at our old house we rescued this answer-phone message left by our then 9 year old son Noah for Matt – note the attempted American accent: Alvin Calling (Noah had no idea how we worked out it wasn’t really Alvin Plantinga.)
Tags: Alvin Plantinga
Back from San Francisco: A Belated Report
February 3rd, 2012 2 Comments
MandM has been quite of late, this is because Madeleine and I have been very busy. With moving house in the midst of Christmas and New Years and Madeleine working part-time in a law firm and so on, we’ve had little time to blog. We are now set up, to some extent, and so this [...]
Tags: Biblioblog · David Baggett · Evangelical Philosophical Society · Jerry Walls · Paul Copan · Publication; San Francisco · Society of Biblical Literature · Walter Sinnott-Armstrong · William Lane Craig
