Professor John Lennox of the University of Oxford will arrive in New Zealand in a fortnight for a brief public speaking tour in the centres of Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. His New Zealand speaking itinerary of public events is below; all public events are free. Auckland Sunday 27 February 9:30 – 11:00am Preaching at Howick Baptist […]
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Hear John Lennox in New Zealand UPDATED
February 15th, 2011 6 Comments
Tags: Auckland · Christchurch · Compass · Events · John Lennox · Philosophy of Religion · Philosophy of Science · Science and Religion · Wellington
Alexander Pruss on Scientific Rigour
January 19th, 2011 166 Comments
Given the debate raging on JT’s Progressive Enslavement: The Seductions of Scientism I thought it timely to share this comment left on The Prosblogion by Baylor University Associate Professor of Philosophy and blogger Alexander Pruss, “Given the pessimistic meta-induction, or given the fact that we know that at least one of the two central theories in […]
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False Alarm: Falsificationism and its Misapplication
January 4th, 2011 21 Comments
A fair number of people are fond of the claim that if one is to be able to take a claim seriously, it really ought to be falsifiable. One easy response is that it’s difficult to see how this particular claim, about how we are to go about accumulating knowledge and believing stuff, is itself […]
Tags: Falsificationism · Friedel Weinert · Karl Popper · Philosophy of Science · Science and Religion · Scientism
Dr Glenn Peoples on Science and Morality, Sam Harris & the Claims of the New Atheism @ Auckland Uni
August 18th, 2010 8 Comments
Christian philosopher and blogger Dr Glenn Peoples is coming to Auckland to give a public talk entitled “Science and Morality: Is there a Naturalistic Basis of Moral Truth?” This talk will examine the claims of the new atheism, particularly the work of Sam Harris. Dr Peoples will ask, can the natural world tell us what is […]
Tags: Evangelical Union · Glenn Peoples · God and Morality · New Atheists · Sam Harris · Science and Religion · Thinking Matters
Gary Gutting on Richard Dawkins’ Atheism
August 15th, 2010 126 Comments
The New York Times has an accessible and excellent critique of Richard Dawkins’ argument for the non- existence of God, written by University of Notre Dame Philosopher Gary Gutting entitled, “On Dawkins’s Atheism: A Response.” Enjoy. RELATED POSTS: Fairies Leprechauns, Golden Tea Cups and Spaghetti Monsters Richard Dawkins and Open Mindedness
Tags: Faith and Reason · Gary Gutting · New Atheists · New York Times · Philosophy of Religion · Richard Dawkins · Science and Religion
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.
Progressive Enslavement: The Seductions of Scientism
January 18th, 2011 138 Comments
One of the silly characteristics of our age is the credulous and naive veneration of science. It has led to the emergence of what we call scientism–faith in science as the ultimate source of truth and wisdom. This faith is pervasive. How many social issues or ethical questions are falsely claimed to be resolved by […]
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