Recently Glenn Peoples and Dominic Bnonn Tennant had an interesting exchange over the issue of biblical inerrancy, the doctrine, that the bible contains no errors. In his post, Errantly Assuming Inerrancy in History, Peoples makes this interesting comment, While there has always been a clear expression of the view that what Scripture teaches is correct, […]
Entries from January 19th, 2010
Sunday Study: Inerrancy and Biblical Authority
January 18th, 2010 46 Comments
Tags: David Brink · Dominic Bnonn Tennant · Glenn Peoples · Inerrancy · Michael Tooley · Sunday Study
Methodology behind the Real Climate Change Science Hockey Stick Graph
January 16th, 2010 7 Comments
You’ll recall the groundbreaking announcement we made in our post Another Climate Change Science Hockey Stick Graph where we revealed the alarming hockey-stick shaped incline in the number of climate change scientists practising in the world today. In that post we suggested that if the trends continued the numbers were unsustainable. Yesterday we intercepted, stole, […]
Tags: AGW · Climate Change · Climategate · Global Warming · Hockey Stick Graph · Murray Hill
Christian Blog Carnival CCCX
January 14th, 2010 Comments Off on Christian Blog Carnival CCCX
The Christian Carnival CCCX is out now at Parableman. There are a number of articles on a range of topics, including some handpicked by the host, philosopher Jeremy Pierce – see the heading “ringers” for those. Matt’s post, Sunday Study: Joshua and the Genocide of the Canaanites Part II, was featured. If you wish to […]
Tags: Jeremy Pierce · The Christian Carnival
The Biblioblog List
January 13th, 2010 9 Comments
Outside the New Zealand blogosphere, in the greater online world, there exists the Biblioblog list: a list of blogs from anywhere in the world that each post on biblical issues. To our international readers this probably is not news but to some of our kiwi readers it will be. Every month this list is ranked […]
Tags: Biblioblog · Jeremy Thompson · Jim West
John Loftus on Calvin, Matthew Flannagan and Psalm 14
January 11th, 2010 17 Comments
John Loftus from Debunking Christianity is at it again. In his recent post, When Psalm 14:1 Says Atheists Are “Fools” This Can Be Easily Refuted, he suggests he can easily refute the idea of biblical inerrancy and cites me to assist him in doing so! Unfortunately he makes several straight-forward mistakes. Given that he has […]
Tags: John Calvin · John Loftus · Psalm 14
Grr: On Naming Names the Court has Suppressed
January 11th, 2010 4 Comments
Just because I am a blogger, I’m friends with Cameron Slater a.k.a. Whale Oil, I’ve gone on the record as supporting some of Cameron Slater’s concern with the current practice of name suppression orders for celebrities and I’m legally connected does NOT mean that I automatically always know who the beneficiary of every celebrity name […]
Tags: Name Suppression · Whale Oil
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 “Three Strikes Bill” Moves Forward
January 19th, 2010 2 Comments
I am cautiously optimistic at today’s announcement that the Sentencing and Parole Reform Bill a.k.a. the “Three Strikes Bill” will be moving forward as part of the government’s legislative program. In my post Three Strikes: Proportion and Protection, which was published in the New Zealand Law Students Association publication LEX, I argued that the “apparent […]
Tags: Justice · Public Policy · Punishment · Three Strikes Bill