A friend sent me this this morning: This is great, witty satire. I particularly like the parody of Dawkins’ “Who made God” argument. Dr Terry Tommyrot addresses the question of whether science can explain the existence of Dawkins’ books without postulating the existence of an intelligent author, Richard Dawkins. Tommyrot asks, “If Dawkins designed this […]
Entries Tagged as 'Humour'
The Dawkins Delusion
July 31st, 2007 35 Comments
Tags: Alvin Plantinga · Atheism · Humour · New Atheists · Richard Dawkins · Terry Tommyrot
Key Savage?
February 13th, 2007 Comments Off on Key Savage?
From this morning’s ODT, a letter to the editor from Paul Tulloch of Roslyn: “I was visiting a family of 23 in a small south Dunedin state house last Saturday, a family whose members had lived there since 1953. As I arrived at the door, I heard the sound of dull thuds against the wall […]
Tags: Humour · John Key · Mickey Savage
Happy New Year Diet!
December 31st, 2006 Comments Off on Happy New Year Diet!
Someone just forwarded me this: Twas The Diet After Christmas Twas the day after Christmas and all through the house, nothing would fit me,not even a blouse!The cookies I’d nibbled,the eggnog I would taste at the holiday parties had gone to my waist. When I got on the scales there arose such a number! When […]
Christmas stockings and kids who won’t sleep!
December 25th, 2006 1 Comment
Just now Matt brought out youngest child, age 5, down to the office. As they approached I could hear that he was sobbing and hysterical and Matt was laughing which I thought odd until I saw him. Each of the kids have oversized, home made Christmas stockings – a stupid idea I came up with […]
Stadium Solution Farrar Style
December 2nd, 2006 1 Comment
Saw this on Kiwiblog and just had to swipe it. The comments section is very funny in places too.
Home Education
December 1st, 2006 Comments Off on Home Education
We are fans of home education and we home educate our kids. We cop a lot of flak at times from people who assume that they will be better off in school – usually because they went to school and they have taken on the false assumptions about home education. Often it feels as if […]
Tags: Family · Historical Ignorance · Home Education · Humour
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.
What is Fundamentalism?
December 17th, 2006 Comments Off on What is Fundamentalism?
we must first look into the use of this term ‘fundamentalist’. On the most common contemporary academic use of the term, it is a term of abuse or disapprobation, rather like ‘son of a bitch’, more exactly ‘sonovabitch’
Tags: Alvin Plantinga · Fundamentalism · Humour