Don’t forget: Tomorrow night’s Thinking Matters Auckland Seminar: David Lindsey on “Politics, Religion and Morality” at 7:00pm, Tues 1 Sept, in Lecture Room 2, Laidlaw College, 80 Central Park Drive, Henderson, West Auckland Thursday night’s Auckland Bloggers Drinks from 6.30pm at Galbraiths, Thurs 3 Sept, 2 Mt Eden Road, Mt Eden, Auckland. See you there […]
Entries from August 31st, 2009
This Week in Auckland: Bloggers Drinks & Thinking Matters
August 31st, 2009 Comments Off on This Week in Auckland: Bloggers Drinks & Thinking Matters
Tags: Bloggers Drinks · Thinking Matters
Darwinian Evolution, Chance and Design
August 28th, 2009 39 Comments
In a previous post, God, Darwinian Evolution and The Teleological Argument, I argued that evolution does not refute the teleological argument. Also, even if it did, a lot more significant philosophical work over and above any appeal to natural selection would be needed to infer from this that theism is rationally untenable. There is, however, […]
Tags: Alvin Plantinga · Charles Darwin · Del Ratzch · Faith and Reason · Philosophy of Religion · Science and Religion
Video of Matthew Flannagan Speaking on Moral Relativism
August 27th, 2009 5 Comments
Matt spoke at Thinking Matters Auckland on 28 May 2009 on Moral Relativism. A popular view of ethics holds that actions are right or wrong only if a person or a community believes that they are right or wrong, and that it is inappropriate to apply your own standards to others. This position is known […]
Tags: Apologetics · MandM on Video · Thinking Matters
AUSA: ‘FREE’ Candy for your Vote
August 26th, 2009 7 Comments
Following on from More Evidence of Student Association Delusions of Grandeur, where I shared Auckland University Students Assocation’s (AUSA) unfathomable intentions to incorporate the UN Declaration of Human Rights into their constitution, a fellow student and reader of this blog, brought my attention to today’s email to all University of Auckland students which he described […]
Dear Mr McCully,
August 26th, 2009 5 Comments
The law criminalises smacking, the best and most faithful reading of the law deems any use of force for the purposes of parental correction criminal; experts in legal interpretation agree on this. The people have objected loudly and all you have done is issue a promise to not enforce the law; a promise that can […]
Tags: National Party · NZ Government · Referendum · Smacking
Wet Paint: Forced to Echo UPDATE
August 26th, 2009 Comments Off on Wet Paint: Forced to Echo UPDATE
This morning comments just would not even load in either Firefox or Explorer so I was forced to switch over to JS Kit’s Echo. Now now comments look awful but at least you can read them. I will do my best to modify the code today to make them look a bit tidier – I […]
Tags: Announcements · Tech Problems
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.
Boscawen’s Smacking Bill drawn from the Ballot
August 26th, 2009 Comments Off on Boscawen’s Smacking Bill drawn from the Ballot
In impeccable timing, this afternoon I heard the announcement that ACT MP John Boscawen’s Bill to amend Section 59 of the Crimes Act, in line with the Borrows amendment that defined reasonable force, had been drawn from the ballot. However, John Key swiftly announced that National would not back it to Select Committee trotting out […]
Tags: John Boscawen · John Key · Smacking