Matt gave an overview of his scepticism here that moral status is attained at conception, citing Don Marquis’ transitivity of identity argument placing moral status beginning at segmentation (14-21 days post-conception). Matt is agnostic as to whether moral status is acquired at conception but argues that unless there are good reasons for thinking the pre-segmentation […]
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Alexander Pruss on Marquis’s Transitivity of Identity Argument
March 20th, 2009 5 Comments
Tags: Abortion · Embryocide · Ethics · Feticide · Science and Religion
Auckland Bloggers Bash
March 20th, 2009 2 Comments
The lovely Annie Fox has called for Auckland bloggers, and any others who happen to be in Auckland, to mark the first Thursday of every month in their calendars for B3 – (Bloggers Bar Bash). The next B3 will be on 2nd of April (my birthday!) from 6.30pm onwards at Galbraiths, 2 Mt Eden Road, […]
Tags: Events
Any Requests?
March 18th, 2009 10 Comments
We ponder issues to blog on that we hope you might be interested in but we would love to hear from our readers – what issues do you want to hear out thoughts on for future blogs?
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Stop Being a Christian and Start Being a Person
March 16th, 2009 1 Comment
No, not a call to give up Christianity – we just listened to Dr Glenn Peoples’ latest podcast, it is worth hearing. Excellent commentary on Christian sub-culture and our willingness to accept sub-standard music, scholarship, etc just because those offering it to us are part of our club. Glenn calls us to critically assess whatever […]
Tags: Religion in Public Life
What a Night! Hear Dr Steve Kumar, Meet MandM …
March 16th, 2009 2 Comments
Just a reminder for tomorrow night’s event: What: Dr Steve Kumar speaking on Faith and ReasonWhen: Tuesday 17th March – 7:00pmWhere: Lecture Room 2, Laidlaw College, 80 Central Park Drive, Henderson, West AucklandFormat: Talk followed by questions, answers and discussionCost: Free! Hosted by Thinking Matters Auckland (TMA). We will both be there … so see […]
Tags: Announcements · Apologetics · Events
Bill Clinton on "Un-fertilised" Human Embryos [UPDATED]
March 13th, 2009 10 Comments
See this clip for yet another President of the United States who supports human embryonic stem-cell research but has no clue what he is talking about. Bill Clinton says he thinks the issue has become “too politicised” and we should be like him and “hand it back to science.” He says this despite having repeatedly […]
Tags: Bad Reasoning · Embryocide
The Catholic Church, Excommunication and Abortion for Child Rape
March 10th, 2009 53 Comments
The Catholic Church has excommunicated the mother, who arranged an abortion for her 9 year old daughter, who was pregnant with twins as a result of rape by her stepfather. There is a heap of controversy over this in the blogosphere, the most insane of which is the Hand Mirror claiming this is evidence the […]
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.
