The Autumn 2013 Stayin’ Alive Pro-Life Training Day will be held in Christchurch this Saturday 16 March 2013. Matt will be speaking twice. 8:15am Rego’s and tea & coffee (YouTube videos in main hall) 9:00am Introduction, housekeeping, and ice breaker (people bingo) 09:30am session: ‘Relativism, Utilitarianism and Abortion’ – Dr Matthew Flannagan 10:30am Morning tea break 10:50am […]
Entries Tagged as 'Embryocide'
Marquis, Pruss and the Twinning Argument
March 23rd, 2009 23 Comments
Augustine writes, And therefore the following question may be very carefully inquired into and discussed by learned men, though I do not know whether it is in man’s power to resolve it: At what time the infant begins to live in the womb: whether life exists in a latent form before it manifests itself in […]
Tags: Abortion · Embryocide · Ethics · Feticide · Science and Religion
Some Thoughts on Human Embryonic Stem-cell Research
March 12th, 2009 51 Comments
Given Barack Obama’s reversal of the ban on federal funding for research on new lines of human embryonic stem-cells, I thought I might add my own thoughts on the issues around stem-cell research. My thoughts are somewhat tentative; largely because, unlike many in the media, I don’t see the issues as clear cut or as […]
Tags: Abortion · Embryocide · Ethics · Feticide · Science and Religion
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.
