Desperate times call for desperate measures. Greenists believe that these are desperate times–acutely so. The future of mankind is at stake. Therefore, it is not surprising that they are calling for desperate measures. We are not now talking about the lunatic fringe of the movement. We are referring to those in the Greenist mainstream, the […]
Entries Tagged as 'Current Events'
Not Surprising . . . Gog and Magog are Showing Signs of Life
January 13th, 2011 22 Comments
Tags: Climate Change · David Shearman · Enviro Myths · Global Warming
Condolences for Pike River Miners
November 24th, 2010 14 Comments
New Zealand is a country in mourning tonight as news that the hopes we’d held onto over recent days for the trapped Pike River Miners were no more. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families and friends and the community devastated by this tragedy.
Tags: Pike River Miners
News Headlines about the Flight your Husband is on that you DO NOT want to see!
November 22nd, 2010 Comments Off on News Headlines about the Flight your Husband is on that you DO NOT want to see!
Matt and Rodney Lake of Thinking Matters Tauranga were both on the flight in this story tonight: “FAA: Delta Flight Makes Emergency Landing in Atlanta.” Matt wrote on Facebook of the first plane being scrapped because it was “not safe”, a second plane being organised in its place. An hour after takeoff the pilot announced there […]
Tags: Atlanta · Delta Airlines · Georgia
Christchurch Earthquake
September 4th, 2010 62 Comments
Matt and I have been getting a lot of emails, facebook messages, etc from our overseas friends in the wake of what appears to be international news that there has been a large 7.1 magnitude (it has been downgraded from the earlier score of 7.4) earthquake in New Zealand – 40 km west of Christchurch […]
Tags: Christchurch Earthquake
Contra Mundum: Selling Atheism
September 2nd, 2010 133 Comments
New Zealand motorists will have noticed a new genre of advertising billboards, those attempting to sell the concept that there is probably no God. These billboards are the collective efforts of the New Zealand Atheist Campaign, The Humanist Society and the New Zealand Association of Rationalist Humanists. Like all advertising campaigns, these billboards offer clever-sounding […]
Tags: Atheism · Contra Mundum · Investigate Magazine · NZ Atheist Campaign · NZARH · The Humanist Society
Middleton Grange, Free Exercise and the Gay Rights Movement UPDATED
July 26th, 2010 284 Comments
Over at GayNZ.com’s Proclamations of the Red Queen blog, Craig Young is in a celebratory mood. Middleton Grange, a Reformed Evangelical Christian school has been forced by law to pay reparations and have their management undergo “human rights education” because they dismissed a netball coach on the grounds that he openly engaged in homosexual conduct. Middleton […]
Tags: Craig Young · Free Exercise · Freedom of Religion · GayNZ.com · Homosexual Conduct · Human Rights · Human Rights Commission · Middleton Grange · Rights and Freedoms
Epistemology 101: Clash of Authorities Part III
July 24th, 2010 26 Comments
This three-part blog series is essentially the talk I gave at the recent Clearing the Air Forum, which was entitled “Discovering Truth in the Synthesis of Science and Faith.” The audience was comprised of scientists, church leaders, journalists and other interested parties so this is a fairly lay introduction to epistemology. In my first post, […]
Tags: AGW · Alvin Plantinga · Climate Change · Epistemology · Faith and Reason · Science and Religion · Scientism
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.
