According to Richard Dawkins, New Zealand apologetics blog, Thinking Matters Talk, “makes for some interesting browsing.” The recommendation of Rob Ward’s blog post, Sarfati reviews Dawkins’ ‘The Greatest Show on Earth’, has seen a deluge traffic arrive. (This pleases us because we are part of Thinking Matters and are listed as contributors to Thinking Matters […]
Entries from November 17th, 2009
Richard Dawkins on Thinking Matters
November 13th, 2009 44 Comments
Tags: Richard Dawkins · Thinking Matters
Guest Post: The Common Good – An Emergent Phenomenon
November 12th, 2009 13 Comments
This guest post comes from Nyokodo of And All These Things…. Catholic social teaching stresses that civil government should seek the common good. This post contains some critical commentary as to how to understand and apply the common good. The documents of the Church and the writings of most socially minded scholars are replete with […]
Tags: Common Good · Guest Post · Nyokodo · Public Policy
Philosophy Carnival XCIX
November 11th, 2009 2 Comments
The Philosophy Carnival XCIX is now online. Matt’s and my post Audi and the Infallibility of Religious Reasons is featured. There are a number of other interesting reads also linked to so head on over and check them out.
Tags: Philosophers' Carnival
Happy Birthday Matt
November 10th, 2009 2 Comments
It is Matt’s birthday today. As he is in Tauranga (so we cannot celebrate his birthday with him until he gets home late tonight) our youngest two children, Brittany and Noah, made this present for him to enjoy in the meantime.
Tags: Happy Birthday
“My Ways are Not Your Ways” Notre Dame Conference
November 10th, 2009 2 Comments
In September this year, the centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame hosted a conference entitled “My Ways Are Not Your Ways”; the proceedings of the conference can be seen at the previous link and is a good resource. The theme of the conference, as outlined on Notre Dame’s webpage, is […]
Tags: Faith and Reason · God and Morality · Notre Dame · Philosophy of Religion · Theology
Audi and the Infallibility of Religious Reasons
November 7th, 2009 6 Comments
In “Liberal Democracy and the Place of Religion in Politics”,[1] Robert Audi defends the liberal thesis that religious reasons should not be utilised in debate on issues of public policy. Instead he contends that “one should not advocate or support any law or public policy that restricts human conduct unless one has, and is willing […]
Tags: Ethics · Philosophy of Religion · Religion in Public Life · Robert Audi
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.
The NZ Herald on Cactus Kate and Priorities in Journalism Ethics
November 17th, 2009 8 Comments
There is an interesting story unfolding in the blogosphere. Cactus Kate published extracts of APN News and Media’s guidelines for publication on her blog in, APN Chicken Out, and inserted her own commentary and spin on them based on email correspondence from staff members working for APN’s publications. Where it gets really interesting is that […]
Tags: Cactus Kate · Journalism Ethics · New Zealand Herald