Recently an acquaintance forwarded me a some comments about this blog on a internet forum. The critic, who goes by the handle Kaiwai stated: Matt Flanagan I find, yes, some of the things I agree with but there is generally speaking, a huge difference; I don’t set out to impose my views by way of […]
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Imposing Your Beliefs Onto Others: A Defence
November 7th, 2007 1 Comment
Tags: Abortion · Bad Reasoning · Feticide · Kaiwai · Leslie Cannold · Religion in Public Life
More Facile Anti-Theism
September 24th, 2007 Comments Off on More Facile Anti-Theism
Not PC has a blog on “How Faith destroys Knowledge”. The basic line of argument appears to be as follows: three famous thinkers appear to hold that faith and reason are at odds and that faith is the preferable stance. I am tempted to say so what? Does the fact that three people appear to […]
Tags: Atheism · Faith and Reason · Peter Cresswell · Philosophy of Religion
The Dawkins Delusion
July 31st, 2007 35 Comments
A friend sent me this this morning: This is great, witty satire. I particularly like the parody of Dawkins’ “Who made God” argument. Dr Terry Tommyrot addresses the question of whether science can explain the existence of Dawkins’ books without postulating the existence of an intelligent author, Richard Dawkins. Tommyrot asks, “If Dawkins designed this […]
Tags: Alvin Plantinga · Atheism · Humour · New Atheists · Richard Dawkins · Terry Tommyrot
Not Madeleine Setchell
July 30th, 2007 2 Comments
I wish to clarify that I am not Madeleine Setchell. My maiden name is Richards. Apparently, after I commented on kiwiblog the other day under my usual posting name which is simply ‘Madeleine’ a lot of people jumped to the conclusion that I must be the Madeleine in the story. Whilst there have been instances […]
Tags: David Benson Pope · Madeleine Setchell
Back up and running
June 14th, 2007 Comments Off on Back up and running
Apologies for the long period of silence. We finally have a new computer, one that works and we have broadband! Yay! Expect to see some regular posting happening here again.
Tags: Tech Problems
Key Savage?
February 13th, 2007 Comments Off on Key Savage?
From this morning’s ODT, a letter to the editor from Paul Tulloch of Roslyn: “I was visiting a family of 23 in a small south Dunedin state house last Saturday, a family whose members had lived there since 1953. As I arrived at the door, I heard the sound of dull thuds against the wall […]
Tags: Humour · John Key · Mickey Savage
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.
