The first Thursday of the month means Bloggers Drinks! The event for bloggers, blog trolls, blog groupies (bloupies) and blog readers who happen to be in Auckland. Past blogging celebrities in attendance include bloggers and blog readers from: 21st Century Renaissance, And All These Things, Annie Fox, As Yourself Hermitage, Barnsley Bill, Beretta, Blondie, Bowalley Road, The Fairfacts […]
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Auckland Bloggers Drinks – This Thursday
May 29th, 2011 2 Comments
Tags: Bloggers Drinks · Galbraiths
Guest Post: One Less God
May 18th, 2011 92 Comments
Bethyada from True Paradigm writes: I have read a few posts on the ‘one less god’ proposition. Stephen F Roberts originally put it, “I contend we are both atheists, I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I […]
Tags: Bethyada · Douglas Wilson · Guest Post · One Less God · Pluralism · Sam Harris · Stephen Roberts
Guest Post: Tim McGrew defends “The Argument from Miracles: A Cumulative Case for the Resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth”
May 9th, 2011 50 Comments
A little while back we published a post linking to some talks by Tim McGrew on Undesigned Coincidences in the Gospels. For some bizarre reason this post of ours prompted fellow kiwi blogger Deane Galbraith to write a post on the Bulletin for the Study of Religion, linking to our post, on the separate topic of Tim […]
Tags: Bayesian Probability · Deane Galbraith · Guest Post · Lydia McGrew · Probability of the Resurrection · Resurrection · Tim McGrew
The Top 10 Beretta Podcast Episodes
April 24th, 2011 3 Comments
I have recently acquired a great interest in listening to philosophy of religion podcasts. My favourite podcast is the Beretta Podcast over at Say Hello to my Little Friend. My interest in the Beretta-cast came about after I clicked on a link on Facebook to a podcast on the notorious Zeitgeist ‘documentary’ and discovered it was created by […]
Tags: Beretta Podcast · Glenn Peoples · Podcast · Say Hello to my Little Friend
Ethical Naturalism and the Euthyphro Dilemma
April 12th, 2011 10 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
Auckland Bloggers Drinks – This Thursday
March 2nd, 2011 3 Comments
The first Thursday of the month means Bloggers Drinks! The event for bloggers, blog trolls, blog groupies (bloupies) and blog readers who happen to be in Auckland. Past blogging celebrities in attendance include bloggers and blog readers from: 21st Century Renaissance, And All These Things, Annie Fox, As Yourself Hermitage, Barnsley Bill, Beretta, Blondie, Bowalley Road, The Fairfacts […]
Tags: Bloggers Drinks · Galbraiths
January Biblioblog Carnival
February 8th, 2011 Comments Off on January Biblioblog Carnival
Jim West has rounded up the best of the best posts, written in January, from as many biblioblogs as possible, for his entertainingly written, rodeo themed, January Biblioblog Carnival. Enjoy 🙂
Tags: Biblioblog Carnival · Jim West
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.
