This two-part series was originally published as: Matthew Flannagan “Boonin’s Defense of the Sentience Criterion: A Critique” Ethics and Medicine – An International Journal of Bioethics Vol 25:2 (Summer 2009) 95-106. It is reproduced on this blog with permission. Abstract Defenders of the permissibility of feticide commonly argue that killing an organism is not homicide […]
Entries from July 15th, 2009
Boonin’s Defense of the Sentience Criterion: A Critique Part I
July 15th, 2009 3 Comments
Tags: Abortion · David Boonin · Don Marquis · Ethics and Medicine · Feticide · Sentience
See William Lane Craig and Christopher Hitchens debate: Does God Exist?
July 14th, 2009 3 Comments
You are invited to a Thinking Matters Auckland, God, Morality and Society, DVD screening: What: William Lane Craig v Christopher Hitchens debating Does God Exist? When: Tuesday 21 July – 7:00pm Where: Lecture Room 2, Laidlaw College, 80 Central Park Drive, Henderson, West Auckland Format: DVD followed by discussion. Cost: Free – donations appreciated. If […]
Tags: Apologetics · Events · Thinking Matters
Living Philosophers of Religion
July 13th, 2009 2 Comments
Over at Common Sense Atheism, Lukeprog has compiled an impressively comprehensive list of 100+ Living Philosophers of Religion and Their Best Work. Lukeprog identifies his list of philosophers of religion as those who have “published at least one influential work in the field” offering “analytic arguments over the truth of theism vs. atheism.” What I […]
Tags: Philosophy of Religion
Sunday Study: Christ on The Prohibition on Homicide Part I
July 12th, 2009 Comments Off on Sunday Study: Christ on The Prohibition on Homicide Part I
This morning I preached a sermon at Riverhead Presbyterian Church on Christ’s exposition of the 6th Commandment, the prohibition on homicide, contained in the Sermon on the Mount. This Sunday Study series is essentially a transcript of today’s sermon. Christ states, You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘Do not […]
Tags: Homicide · Riverhead Presbyterian Church · Sermon on the Mount · Sunday Study
Published: Boonin’s Defense of the Sentience Criteria – A Critique
July 12th, 2009 5 Comments
We just discovered that if you go to Ethics and Medicine – An International Journal of Bioethics and click on “current issue” (VOLUME 25:2 SUMMER 2009) you will see that my article “Boonin’s Defense of the Sentience Criteria – A Critique” is now in print. It is always nice to finally see a publication in […]
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Christian Blog Ranking Report for May 09 – Tumeke
July 11th, 2009 2 Comments
Here are the top 10 NZ Christian blogs based on Tumeke’s NZ blog stats for May; these stats are used in the calculations for the MandM top 10 NZ Christian Blog rankings for May 09: NZ Conservative 22 Something Should Go Here, Maybe Later (HalfDone) 31 Being Frank 33 MandM 35 Keeping Stock 36 Say […]
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Fisking Ian Hassall: The Arbitrary Ethical Reasoning on the Smacking Referendum
July 10th, 2009 41 Comments
Recently Dr Ian Hassall gave a presentation, on the upcoming referendum on section 59 of the Crimes Act 1961, entitled: How did we come to have a law that supported hitting children? This presentation defends the thesis that mild physical punishment (smacking) is wrong and should remain illegal in New Zealand. In this post I […]
Tags: David Benatar · Defences · Ethics · Ian Hassall · Moral Discourse · Referendum · s59 · Smacking
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.
