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.)
Entries Tagged as 'Humour'
Not the Real Slim Shady
June 22nd, 2011 4 Comments
After weeks of trying to tell Facebook that our MandM Facebook Page is not, in fact, a “community page about Eminem” we are finally back to being listed as us. Yay! It was kinda funny though:
Ethical Naturalism and the Euthyphro Dilemma
April 12th, 2011 9 Comments
Some people argue that moral obligations can be grounded in scientifically verifiable facts about human wellbeing and flourishing. This view is a form of ethical naturalism. For these people moral rightness is just the property of promoting or enhancing human flourishing. Plato refuted this argument over 2,000 years ago in his famous dialogue The Euthyphro. The [...]
Tags: Divine Command Theory · Ethical Naturalism · Euthyphro Dilemma · God and Morality · Humour · Plato
Alexander Pruss on Scientific Rigour
January 19th, 2011 165 Comments
Given the debate raging on JT’s Progressive Enslavement: The Seductions of Scientism I thought it timely to share this comment left on The Prosblogion by Baylor University Associate Professor of Philosophy and blogger Alexander Pruss, “Given the pessimistic meta-induction, or given the fact that we know that at least one of the two central theories in [...]
Tags: Alexander Pruss · Humour · Science and Religion
Did Hannibal of Carthage Exist?
January 12th, 2011 10 Comments
Historian James Hannam has written an entertaining article called “Satirising the Christ Myth.” The piece uses similar methods employed by those seeking to make the case for the claim that Jesus never existed to show that Hannibal of Carthage did not exist either. It is written in Hannam’s classicly witty yet accurate style; Did Hannibal Really Exist? To ask [...]
Tags: Carthage · Christ Myth · Hannibal · James Hannam
Recycling The Dawkins Delusion
August 27th, 2010 3 Comments
Browsing the archives this morning I stumbled accross this gem, The Dawkins Delusion, which Matt originally published here some three years ago back before we had much of a readership so a lot you may have missed it. It is seriously clever and funny – go see!
Tags: Humour · New Atheists · Richard Dawkins
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
Tales of Blog Wars and Cannon Fodder
January 4th, 2010 15 Comments
There is a war raging in the blogosphere; the war for first place in the Biblioblog rankings. Being world-famous-in-New-Zealand bloggers and TVNZ One News Anchors… We are used to putting our heads into the lion’s mouth (or at least Matt is), I find it better to just tame the lion myself… Sorry, I took these [...]
Tags: Alexa · Biblioblog · Blog Rankings · Humour · Jeremy Thompson · Jim West · Joel Watts · Polycarp
Another Climate Change Science Hockey Stick Graph
December 16th, 2009 17 Comments
Spotted this over at Hitting Metal with a Hammer in The real climate hockey stick revealed and had to have it: It really raises questions of sustainability.
Tags: AGW · Climate Change · Climategate · Global Warming · Hockey Stick Graph
