A common theme appeared in the comments section of my Investigate Magazine article, Contra Mundum: What’s Wrong with Imposing your Beliefs onto Others? Commenters suggested I had not addressed the standard liberal conception of the role of religion and public life, the view that no law should be based on premises that not all reasonable […]
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Recyling: Rawls on Religion and Public Life
September 9th, 2009 Comments Off on Recyling: Rawls on Religion and Public Life
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Dr Glenn Peoples on Abortion, Morality and Law
July 27th, 2009 2 Comments
Canterbury student group Prolife UC have organised for Dr Glenn Peoples to deliver some free public lectures at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch on Abortion, Morality and Law. Thursday 30th July 7.30 pm“Chasing the Justificatory Goalpost: Public Justification and Religious Beliefs” There is a broad political tradition that we are a part of that […]
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Religion and Science: A Response to Ken Perrott’s “Other Ways of Knowing”
July 23rd, 2009 129 Comments
Ken Perrott, at Open Parachute, took issue with some comments I made in my recent defence of Plantinga’s stance on Evolution being taught in state schools. To gain focus let’s look at one thing I said to Ken in the comments section on that post, If the relevant evidence points towards a theory it does […]
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Evolution should not be taught in State Schools: A Defence of Plantinga Part II
July 1st, 2009 66 Comments
In Evolution should not be taught in State Schools: A Defence of Plantinga Part I, I articulated and defended Alvin Plantinga’s proposal that evolution should not be taught as “the sober truth” in state schools. In this post I will address what should be taught in state schools and look at Robert Pennock’s objections to […]
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Evolution should not be taught in State Schools: A Defence of Plantinga Part I
June 30th, 2009 55 Comments
In this two-part series I will sketch and defend Alvin Plantinga’s proposal that evolution should not be taught as “the sober truth” in state schools. In Part I, I will sketch Plantinga’s position and the arguments he provides for it; in Part II, I will look at what should be taught and then I’ll defend […]
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Rest In Peace Richard Neuhaus
January 12th, 2009 Comments Off on Rest In Peace Richard Neuhaus
It is with sadness that I have just read that Richard John Neuhaus died on Thursday the 8th of January at age 72. There are various obituaries hereFor those New Zealand readers who won’t know. Neuhaus was a Lutheran turned Catholic priest who wrote and commented extensively on issues of religion and public life. His […]
Some More Thoughts on Religion and Public Life: Robert Audi’s Critique of Wolterstorff
January 6th, 2009 12 Comments
In two earlier posts, I discussed John Rawls’ defence of the contention that theological premises should be bracketed or excluded from public discourse. In particular, I appropriated the criticisms of Rawls’s position made by Nicholas Wolterstorff. In “Wolterstorff on Religion, Politics, and the Liberal State” in Religious Beliefs in the Public Square, Robert Audi argues […]
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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.
