For some faith and reason is an anathema; Christianity is the realm of feelings and is totally separate from academia, reason and logic. After the Craig v Cooke debate a Christian reporter asked me “aside from people being intellectually stimulated, what was the point of having a Christian Philosopher dialogue with an Atheist Historian at […]
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The Point of Intellectual Engagement: Why Thinking Matters
October 9th, 2008 1 Comment
Tags: Apologetics · Bnonn · Faith and Reason · Thinking Matters
Recent Comments
October 9th, 2008 7 Comments
I have been messing around with the blog of late. New colour scheme, modication of the layout to three columns, new stats counter, a recent comments widget and a favicon. I have tried 4 different recent comments widgets and none of them are working properly. The current one comes from Storago and yesterday it seemed […]
Tags: Blog Upgrades
Labour Cause Car Accident (Almost)
October 2nd, 2008 5 Comments
Whilst driving, through Labour’s Sue Moroney’s territory, on my way back from my weekly lecture at BTI in Tauranga, I laughed so much I nearly drove into a pole. Narrowly missing the pole, the laughter saw me nearly swerve into fence. This is what I saw on the side of Galloway St in Hamilton: I […]
Tags: Elections · Humour · Labour Party
Reviving the Five Things Meme
October 2nd, 2008 2 Comments
We just discovered that a year and a half ago (what! it still counts) David Farrar tagged us with the five things meme. This means we have to blog five things you probably don’t know about us. (We don’t really care if you don’t want to know) So here goes: 1) Madeleine never wrote a […]
Tags: Meme
Spot the Difference
September 30th, 2008 7 Comments
This is a photo of me taken last weekend on my daughter’s cell phone (not the best photo of me but our camera is broken): This is a photo of my 16 year old daughter: This is a photo of me with my 16 year old daughter, also taken last weekend:Can you spot the difference? […]
Tags: Personal Abuse
Subway and MandM
September 3rd, 2008 3 Comments
Hey! Andy just sent me this pic he snapped at Subway that made him think of us.
Tags: Humour
On the Absence of Matt
August 23rd, 2008 Comments Off on On the Absence of Matt
The more observant among you will have noticed that Matt has not written a blog entry for a while. It is not for lack of want but more for being completely inundated of late: His teaching course load this semester is heavier. His non-academic job continues to suck up his time and its hours limit […]
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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.
