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Freedom, Science and Christianity: A Response to James Valliant Part II

February 18th, 2010 2 Comments

Recently Peter Cresswell published a guest post by James Valliant, which originally appeared on SOLO. In Freedom, Science and Christianity: A Response to James Valliant Part I, I addressed Valliant’s claims that science and freedom of religion were unanimously opposed by Christians and the success of science and freedom of religion in Europe was solely […]

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Property Rights: Blackstone, Locke and the Legislative Scheme Part I

February 17th, 2010 10 Comments

This two part series looks at the state of property rights under the current legislative scheme in New Zealand. Particularly I address attempts to suggest that the passage of Acts such as the Crown Minerals Act and the Resource Management Act have not significantly altered the  common law concept of property rights and the claim […]

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Freedom, Science and Christianity: A Response to James Valliant Part I

February 12th, 2010 14 Comments

Recently Peter Cresswell published a guest post by James Valliant, which originally appeared on SOLO. The following series is a critique of this piece. Valliant’s basic thesis is that, Both science and freedom came about among European Christians despite the best efforts of pious Christians to prevent their development, and only on a foundation of […]

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Sunday Study: Two Forms of Inerrancy

February 8th, 2010 6 Comments

The discussion arising in response to my recent post Inerrancy and Biblical Authority, both on this blog and on some of the blogs that linked to it, got me thinking a bit more about this topic. I was reminded of an interesting comment made by Alan Rhoda regarding the doctrinal statement of the Evangelical Philosophical […]

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Sunday Study: Inerrancy and Biblical Authority

January 18th, 2010 46 Comments

Recently Glenn Peoples and Dominic Bnonn Tennant had an interesting exchange over the issue of biblical inerrancy, the doctrine, that the bible contains no errors. In his post, Errantly Assuming Inerrancy in History, Peoples makes this interesting comment, While there has always been a clear expression of the view that what Scripture teaches is correct, […]

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Christian Blog Carnival CCCX

January 14th, 2010 Comments Off on Christian Blog Carnival CCCX

The Christian Carnival CCCX is out now at Parableman. There are a number of articles on a range of topics, including some handpicked by the host, philosopher Jeremy Pierce – see the heading “ringers” for those. Matt’s post, Sunday Study: Joshua and the Genocide of the Canaanites Part II, was featured. If you wish to […]

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Sunday Study: Joshua and the Genocide of the Canaanites Part II

January 10th, 2010 45 Comments

In my previous post, Joshua and the Genocide of the Canaanites Part I, I mentioned the position suggested by Alvin Plantinga and endorsed by Nicholas Wolterstorff that the passages in Joshua that appear to record the carrying out of genocide at God’s command, such as, “putting all the people to the sword”, “leaving no survivors”, […]

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