We have finally sat down and revised our list of blogs we link to. Its something we have been meaning to do forever but haven’t so tonight we made a start. I am sure that we have missed heaps of blogs we intend to link to so if you think we should link to you, […]
Entries Tagged as 'Blogging'
Coming Events
August 6th, 2008 3 Comments
As the early bird rate expires on Friday, I registered Matt’s and my attendance at this years Forum on the Family. Being election year, the line up is mostly politicians all keen to vote catch but of the array of political parties being billed, one is most conspicuously absent. Can you spot which one? Its […]
Tags: David Farrar · Elections · Events · Forum on the Family · Kiwiblog
Kant and the ZoneAlarm Update
July 12th, 2008 4 Comments
On Tuesday despite being able to connect, we discovered we could not download or send email and we could not access the web at all. After doing battle with the automated ISP Help Desk computer that claims to understand english and in fact frequently does not, we heard a recorded message that they were experiencing […]
Tags: Kant · Tech Problems · ZoneAlarm
Is God a Delusion? The Auckland Craig v Cooke Debate Online
June 21st, 2008 10 Comments
Dr William Lane Craig and Dr Bill Cooke debated the moot “Is God a Delusion?” at Auckland University on 17 June 2008. The debate was chaired by Professor John Bishop and was organised by New Zealand Association of Rationalists and Humanists and Tertiary Students Christian Fellowship with MandM. High quality DVD copies of the debate […]
Tags: Apologetics · Atheism · Bill Cooke · Debates · Events · Faith and Reason · NZARH · Philosophy of Religion · Rationalists · Videos · William Lane Craig
Bill Craig’s Visit
May 30th, 2008 4 Comments
I need to apologize to my readers for blogging infrequently at present. I am extremely busy, with marking papers, setting exams, part time jobs, getting another paper published, and generally running a family of 6. I would like to share one project I have been working on over the last few months. Regular readers will […]
Tags: Bill Cooke · Debates · Events · William Lane Craig
The “Dark Ages” and Other Propaganda
April 22nd, 2008 12 Comments
Perhaps I am a glutton for punishment, but I have been having an interesting dialogue with Peter Cresswell about the history of theology. To sum up PC follows the 20th century novelist Ayn Rand. Rand’s followers view Aristotle as the “father of the enlightenment,” they appear to hold a view of history that is extremely […]
Tags: Christian History · Dark Ages · Faith and Reason · Peter Cresswell · Science and Religion
Abortion and Brain Death: A Response to Farrar
March 19th, 2008 26 Comments
David Farrar of Kiwiblog weighs in on the abortion debate. I have met David a couple of times and worked with him on several issues and I have a lot of time for him but on this issue we disagree. Given how widely read Farrar’s blog is, and seeing the ethics of killing a fetus […]
Tags: Abortion · Brain Death · David Farrar · Ethics · Feticide
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.
