The kindle edition of Come Let Us Reason: New Essays in Christian Apologetics, published by B&H Academic, edited by William Lane Craig and Paul Copan and featuring Craig, Copan, JP Moreland, Gary Habermas, Craig Keener, Mary Jo Sharp, this blog’s Matthew Flannagan, and others, with the foreword written by Rick Warren, is now available at the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Apologetics'
Come Let Us Reason: New Essays in Christian Apologetics – Available on Kindle or Pre-Order the Book, Feat. William Lane Craig, Paul Copan, JP Moreland, Gary Habermas, Matthew Flannagan et al.
March 22nd, 2012 12 Comments
Tags: Amazon · Apologetics · Craig Keener · Gary Habermas · JP Moreland · Kindle · Mary-Jo Sharp · Paul Copan · Philosophy of Religion · William Lane Craig
True Reason: Christian Responses to the Challenges of Atheism – on Kindle Feat. William Lane Craig, Sean McDowell, Matthew Flannagan, et al.
March 21st, 2012 62 Comments
The kindle edition of new book featuring responses to the New Atheists, aimed to be readable at the popular level entitled True Reason: Christian Responses to the Challenges of Atheism is now available on Amazon. This blog’s Matthew Flannagan contributed to a chapter in it alongside William Lane Craig, Sean McDowell and others. Matt’s chapter [...]
Tags: Amazon · Carson Weitnauer · Chuck Edwards · David Marshall · David Wood · Glenn Sunshine · John DePoe · John Loftus · Matthew Flannagan · New Atheists · Peter Grice · Randy Hardman · Richard Dawkins · Sam Harris · Samuel Youngs · Tom Gilson · True Reason · William Lane Craig
Jerry Coyne on God and Morality Revisited
February 23rd, 2012 40 Comments
Late last year I, wrote a criticism of Jerry Coyne’s piece in USA today. Entitled, As atheists know, you can be good without God. My critique attracted some attention. Getting commentary from Mary Ann Spikes, Jason Thibodeau, Jeffery Lay Lowder, and Brian Zamulinski. Since the USA today article Coyne has written a follow up article where [...]
Tags: Divine Command Theory · Jerry Coyne · New Atheists · Robert Adams · William Lane Craig
Thinking Matters Youth Conference
February 16th, 2012 2 Comments
This Saturday is the first, of hopefully many, Thinking Matters Youth Conference, the schedule is below. I am leading a breakout session on Moral Relativism WHEN: Saturday, February 18 WHERE: Greenlane Christian Centre, 17 Marewa Rd, Greenlane, Auckland COST: $10 Schedule: 10am Registration 10.30am Jeff Tallon – Is Science a Threat to Faith? 11.30am Sean [...]
Tags: Apologetics · God and Morality · Relativism · Thinking Matters · Tim McGrew
Back from San Francisco: A Belated Report
February 3rd, 2012 2 Comments
MandM has been quite of late, this is because Madeleine and I have been very busy. With moving house in the midst of Christmas and New Years and Madeleine working part-time in a law firm and so on, we’ve had little time to blog. We are now set up, to some extent, and so this [...]
Tags: Biblioblog · David Baggett · Evangelical Philosophical Society · Jerry Walls · Paul Copan · Publication; San Francisco · Society of Biblical Literature · Walter Sinnott-Armstrong · William Lane Craig
Comparing the Old & New Teleological Arguments
October 20th, 2011 78 Comments
The “New Teleological Argument” is a theistic argument which attempts to show that theism is more probable than the postulate of an “atheistic single universe”[i]. There are number of reasons why this argument is termed the “New” teleological argument. Chief among these reasons is that its explanandum i.e. the incredible fine tuning of the laws [...]
Tags: Apologetics · Design Arguments · Evolution · Fine-Tuning · Natural Theology · Philosophy of Religion · Robin Collins · Teleological Arguments · The Likelihood Principle · William Paley
Hear Matt’s EPS Apologetics Conference Paper in Advance & Eat 3 Courses for $10 – This Weekend in Auckland
September 26th, 2011 1 Comment
We are going to the United States in November to, between us, give 4 talks to 4 different conferences that we have been invited to speak at (details below). We need to raise the funds to get there and so far we have raised about half of what we need thanks to the generosity of readers [...]
Tags: Apologetics · Evangelical Philosophical Society · Mad | Food · Massey Presbyterian Church · Problem of Evil · San Francisco · South Bend
The Podcast: 20 Tough Questions on Life FM’s “The Forum”
September 19th, 2011 7 Comments
The Podcast of last night’s show on Life FM’s The Forum, which featured this blog’s Madeleine Flannagan, along with Frank Ritchie and Dale Campbell, answering 20 Tough Questions about God, the Bible, Christianity, Church and life, thrown at them by host George Penk, is now available online in its entirety. Click the image to listen [...]
Tags: Apologetics · Dale Campbell · Frank Ritchie · George Penk · Life FM · Podcast
Tough Questions on Life FM’s “The Forum” this Sunday feat. Madeleine Flannagan
September 17th, 2011 69 Comments
Yesterday Madeleine was one of a panel who recorded a two-hour show answering tough questions about God, the Bible, Christianity, Church and life for Life FM’s “The Forum.” The show which, along with Madeleine, will feature Frank Ritchie, Dale Campbell and host George Penk, will air tomorrow night, Sunday 18 September from 9pm – 11pm NZT (5am-7am [...]
Tags: Apologetics · Dale Campbell · Frank Ritchie · George Penk · Life FM
Divine Commands Post 9/11
September 12th, 2011 43 Comments
The night of September 11, 2001, was a night we did not get much sleep in. By 4am September 12 (New Zealand time) our two-week old son and 14 month old daughter had woken us twice already. Frustratingly, I awoke again sometime after 4am to a different noise coming from the lounge; it turned out [...]
Tags: 9/11 · Divine Command Theory · Osama Bin Laden · Raymond Bradley · Robert Adams · Terrorism
