The debate between atheist journalist Christopher Hitchens and Christian Philosopher and Theologian Dr William Lane Craig has finished. There is an, albeit very brief, summary of the debate here and a more comprehensive one from a Philosopher here. One point of interest is that Hitchens appears to have given up towards the end and “yields […]
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Craig v Hitchens: Dissecting the Debate UPDATE 2
April 6th, 2009 42 Comments
Tags: Atheism · Christopher Hitchens · Debates · Philosophy of Religion · William Lane Craig
Belief without Proof: Is Belief in God Rational if there is no Evidence? Part II
April 6th, 2009 3 Comments
In my previous post I criticised the rationalist objection to belief in God. In this post I want to sketch an alternative view of faith and reason defended by Alvin Plantinga. In my next post I will address two common objections to this conception.Belief in God as Properly BasicIn several of his works Alvin Plantinga […]
Tags: Alvin Plantinga · Faith and Reason · William Alston
Does God Exist? Christopher Hitchens v William Lane Craig
April 4th, 2009 13 Comments
A live blog debate will be held between atheist journalist Christopher Hitchens author of the best-selling God is Not Great and Christian Philosopher and Theologian Dr William Lane Craig author of too many things to list here. They will debate the topic: Does God Exist? Catch the live blog debate here on Sunday 5 April […]
Tags: Atheism · Christopher Hitchens · Debates · Philosophy of Religion · William Lane Craig
Belief without Proof: Is Belief in God Rational if there is no Evidence? Part I
April 4th, 2009 3 Comments
This series is effectively the talk I gave to Thinking Matters Auckland on Belief without Proof; It will be split into three posts. First, I will examine a common objection to belief in God, the objection that it is irrational to believe in God without proof; I will unpack this objection and argue that it […]
Tags: Alvin Plantinga · Faith and Reason
Christian Blog Ranking Report for March 09 – HalfDone UPDATED
April 3rd, 2009 13 Comments
UPDATE: There has been an error in the ranking calculations and I have had to adjust the top 10 and list of those making the top 100 below. Scrubone explains why here and in the below comments. Apologies and congrats (as applicable) to those affected. Here are the top 10 NZ Christian blogs based on […]
MandM is the 7th most read Blog in New Zealand
April 3rd, 2009 13 Comments
Just out, the New Zealand Blog Rankings for March on HalfDone. Not only are we the 7th most read public discourse blog in New Zealand but we’ve also achieved something else… check out those crosses. Top 10 Christian Blog report for HalfDone will be out soon.
Tags: NZ Blog Rankings
Happy Birthday Madeleine
April 2nd, 2009 3 Comments
Happy Birthday Madeleine; Brittany and Noah made this for you .
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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.
