In ‘MCMXIV’ Philip Larkin describes the queues to enlist at the start of the first World War: The crowns of hats, the sun On moustached archaic faces Grinning as if it were all An August Bank Holiday lark His late-century comment was “Never such innocence again.” When I read these words in Jonathan Glover’s Humanity […]
Entries from April 25th, 2009
ANZAC Day: Lest we Forget or Have we Already?
April 25th, 2009 8 Comments
Tags: ANZAC Day · World War I
How to Judge a Beauty Pageant: Political Views more Important than Looks
April 24th, 2009 3 Comments
Apparently being an underweight and skeletal, having a BMI outside the healthy weight range, is an irrelevant factor for a beauty pageant judge to take into account when assessing who is the fairest of them all but a candidate’s opinion on gay marriage is not.
Tags: Bad Reasoning · Gay Marriage · Political Correctness
Surrounded by Brainy Women
April 23rd, 2009 10 Comments
Madeleine is currently completing a law degree and is enrolled in some final year papers. Today she received the results in for her first 4 pieces of assessment for the year. She has sat four tests and has scored 100%, 90%, 100%, 100% respectively, which in a subject like law, is very impressive. She still […]
Tags: Law Studies
Ahmadinejad, Tumeke, Boycotts, Blog Stats and Holocaust Denial
April 23rd, 2009 16 Comments
A boycott has been launched of Tumeke’s blog stats. Prominent kiwi-bloggers Whaleoil, HalfDone and Keeping Stock have each set out their cases; charges range from holocaust denier to holocaust promoter. “the state of Israel was created ‘on the pretext of Jewish suffering’ from the second world war”The authors at Tumeke are politically hard-left activists; most […]
Tags: Iran · NZ Blog Rankings · NZ Christian Blog Rankings
Response to Richard Chappell’s "Pro-Life Pro Zombie"
April 22nd, 2009 5 Comments
Thialias has asked me to respond to “Pro-Life Pro Zombie” written by kiwi ex-pat philosopher Richard Chappell, the author of Philosophy et cetera. In this post Richard, as I understand it, set up a thought experiment where he asked readers to imagine a world where beings exist that are physically identical to us in every […]
Published: Abortion and Capital Punishment UPDATED
April 21st, 2009 13 Comments
Heh! I just discovered on Cambridge Journals that my publication for the Spring 2009 edition of Think: A Journal of the Royal Institute for Philosophy is online. You can download the pdf here, Abortion and Capital Punishment: A Response to Beverly Harrison. UPDATE: As some people are having trouble with the direct link to the […]
Tags: Abortion · Christian History · Ethics · Published
Coming Events Reminder: JP Moreland on Faith and Reason
April 20th, 2009 2 Comments
I trust those of you who started back at Uni today survived the shock. Now that you have your thinking caps back on, make sure next week’s event is in your diary. Next Tuesday come to our Thinking Matters Auckland DVD screening: What: Dr JP Moreland on Faith and ReasonWhen: Tuesday 28 April – 7:00pmWhere: […]
Tags: Apologetics · Events · Thinking Matters
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.
