Implicit, if not overtly explicit, in much historic Christian moral reflection on feticide is a simple three-premise position. Firstly, that there is a divine law prohibiting homicide, the killing of a human being without adequate justification; secondly, a formed conceptus, a fetus, is a human being; and thirdly, that in all or most cases of […]
Entries from April 8th, 2009
The Foundations of the Alexandrian Argument against Feticide Part I
April 8th, 2009 2 Comments
Tags: Abortion · Ethics · Feticide · Philosophy of Religion · The Alexandrian Argument · Theology
How to become a Famous Blogger
April 7th, 2009 42 Comments
As MandM have recently been flagellated with the following non-sequitur [no link as the accusers righteously distance themselves from seeking readership from any source not purist enough to already follow their blogs for blogging solely for joy in their niche category and as we would hate to offend by increasing either’s Technorati ranking (is mentioning […]
Tags: Humour · NZ Blog Rankings · NZ Christian Blog Rankings
Belief without Proof: Is Belief in God Rational if there is no Evidence? Part III
April 7th, 2009 4 Comments
In Part I of this series, I criticised the rationalist objection to belief in God. In Part II I set out an alternative view of faith and reason defended by Alvin Plantinga. In this final post, I want to address two common objections to the view of faith and reason I have been sketching. Argument […]
Tags: Alvin Plantinga · Faith and Reason
Craig v Hitchens: Dissecting the Debate UPDATE 2
April 6th, 2009 42 Comments
The debate between atheist journalist Christopher Hitchens and Christian Philosopher and Theologian Dr William Lane Craig has finished. There is an, albeit very brief, summary of the debate here and a more comprehensive one from a Philosopher here. One point of interest is that Hitchens appears to have given up towards the end and “yields […]
Tags: Atheism · Christopher Hitchens · Debates · Philosophy of Religion · William Lane Craig
Belief without Proof: Is Belief in God Rational if there is no Evidence? Part II
April 6th, 2009 3 Comments
In my previous post I criticised the rationalist objection to belief in God. In this post I want to sketch an alternative view of faith and reason defended by Alvin Plantinga. In my next post I will address two common objections to this conception.Belief in God as Properly BasicIn several of his works Alvin Plantinga […]
Tags: Alvin Plantinga · Faith and Reason · William Alston
Does God Exist? Christopher Hitchens v William Lane Craig
April 4th, 2009 13 Comments
A live blog debate will be held between atheist journalist Christopher Hitchens author of the best-selling God is Not Great and Christian Philosopher and Theologian Dr William Lane Craig author of too many things to list here. They will debate the topic: Does God Exist? Catch the live blog debate here on Sunday 5 April […]
Tags: Atheism · Christopher Hitchens · Debates · Philosophy of Religion · William Lane Craig
Belief without Proof: Is Belief in God Rational if there is no Evidence? Part I
April 4th, 2009 3 Comments
This series is effectively the talk I gave to Thinking Matters Auckland on Belief without Proof; It will be split into three posts. First, I will examine a common objection to belief in God, the objection that it is irrational to believe in God without proof; I will unpack this objection and argue that it […]
Tags: Alvin Plantinga · Faith and Reason
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.
