On her way from work to Uni, Madeleine was stopped at traffic lights today and another driver drove into the back of her. She was taken to hospital with suspected neck injuries and her car looks like a write off.
Entries from March 26th, 2008
Abortion and Brain Death: A Response to Farrar
March 19th, 2008 26 Comments
David Farrar of Kiwiblog weighs in on the abortion debate. I have met David a couple of times and worked with him on several issues and I have a lot of time for him but on this issue we disagree. Given how widely read Farrar’s blog is, and seeing the ethics of killing a fetus […]
Tags: Abortion · Brain Death · David Farrar · Ethics · Feticide
Back to Law School
March 6th, 2008 Comments Off on Back to Law School
Way back in 1993 I began an LLB (Bachelor of Law) part-time. I took a break from it 8 years ago following the death of our first child but now we are settled in Auckland I am ready to pick it up again. My employer has given me a bonding agreement to complete it so […]
Tags: Career · Law Studies
Genocide ! Who Cares? Tell them about crazy Falwell and Tinky Winky
March 2nd, 2008 1 Comment
A few years ago I heard with amusement the NZ media report that Jerry Falwell had condemned Tinky Winky from the Teletubbies as gay. A little while latter I came across an article in First Things pointing out that the sources of these reports were mistaken. I was not a fan of Falwell but whatever […]
Tags: Abortion · Eugenics · Family Planning · Feticide · Gerry Falwell · Homosexual Conduct · Media · Planned Parenthood · Urban Myths
Theology, Morality and Reason
March 1st, 2008 Comments Off on Theology, Morality and Reason
In my previous post I mediated on the morality of lying. I suggested that a divine command theorist: a person who believes that the property of moral wrongness is the property of being contrary to God’s commands does not need to affirm that lying is wrong in any and all circumstances. In updating the post […]
Tags: Divine Command Theory · Ethics · Faith and Reason · Peter Cresswell · Theology
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.
