The Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) comes into force today. It is still not clear who we’ll be trading anything with (that implies that there are other parties in the scheme) but what is clear is that we are now all paying, dearly, for the controversial science and policies that many of us reject.
Winter just got a lot colder in our house.
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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.
Today's New Atheists proclaim themselves our culture's party of reason. It is a claim they cannot sustain. Reason is the New Atheists' weakness, not their strength and in fact, the Christian faith is a far better place to look for True Reason. Making their case accessible to the first-time inquirer as well as the serious student, this top-flight team of writers presents a sound defense and a strong introduction to the true reason uniquely found in Christianity.
The book begins by examining foundational philosophical approaches to the Bible as well as the methodological challenges those philosophies create for interpreting the Bible. It then addresses textual and historical challenges and how to deal with them. Finally it looks at ethical, scientific, and theological challenges demonstrating the Bible's moral integrity in relationship to contemporary moral emphases.
Many philosophers have considered the strengths and weaknesses of a virtue-centered approach to moral theory. Much less attention has been given to how such an approach bears on issues in applied ethics. The essays in this volume apply a virtue-centered perspective to a variety of contemporary moral issues.
The challenge of a seemingly genocidal God who commands ruthless warfare has bewildered Bible readers for generations. A range of expert contributors engage in a multidisciplinary approach that considers this issue from a variety of perspectives: biblical, ethical, philosophical and theological.
The nineteen essays here raise classical philosophical questions in fresh ways, address contemporary challenges for the church, and will deepen the thinking of the next generation of apologists. Packed with dynamic topical discussions and informed by the latest scholarship.
While New Atheists like Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and others proclaim loudly their rationality, clear thinking, and incontrovertible scientific arguments, others are beginning to wonder how genuinely rational they are. Have they proved anything? Have they argued convincingly? Have they pinpointed any real challenges to the credibility of Christian faith?
Many of you reject it because you are too stupid to see the truth about this issue.
I rise on behalf of the National Party to give the good news to the people of New Zealand—that is, the Climate Change Response Amendment Bill is a load of rubbish and the National Party will not be supporting it, for very, very good reasons indeed.
John Key, 2005
Oh how times have changed.
I see in the herald this morning that MP’s are probably getting a pay rise. Nice to see them tightening their belts to make a statement to the rest of the world.
You mean you are not comforted that at least our dear leaders will have the means to pay for the ETS’ impact on the cost of living?
Yep – and do you think any of them will refuse it? But to be fair – they don’t really get paid enough to go on holiday at the moment. And why should an MP have to pay for their family to travel with them like everyone else? They are some fo the brightest… um.. some of the most qulaif… um… some of the… they got voted… err… well they managed to get their name on a list! They earned every cent.
Wouldn’t it rock if an MP called for a vote on the proposition that all MP’s donated their 10% payrise to some research organisation to develop practical solutions to AGW?
Let’s see how many of them will elect to put their money where they expect us to put ours?
Wanna take a punt on the amount such a motion would be defeated by?
“Winter just got a lot colder in our house.” My heart cries for you! But, come on Madeleine. Bit hypocritical isn’t it? I seem to remember you had enough money to run every electric appliance in your hose on earth Day!
As for controversial science – what a laugh. Haven’t you guys caught up – all this “climategate” smearing was found to be just that. A hoax.
The last inquiry into the science exonerated Mann completely (see “Climategate” smears found false – Mann cleared).
You guys shouldn’t have listened to the ACT Party, the Centre for political research, Ian Wishart and other conservative NZ bloggers (including some of the conservative Christian bloggers).
What a scam! And what fools for going along for the ride.
Bringing in pseudo-science is a distraction in any case. The ETS is a political game, and an economic game.
Re Ken’s comment.
Yes I find this wonderfully ironic. But I have come to expect contradictions and exceptions-when-it-comes-to-me-ism from the “liberals”
Quite imperious of Key, and once again, he is out of touch wtth the people on this one. How does the man sleep at night? Does he not have a conscious? They’re just all the same, though, liars, dishonest, power-hungry and falsely nice. It’s a shame that the people won’t rise up and revolt, this govt is past contempt…the UN must love Key! I got sick of him ages ago, I could sense that he was going to be worse than Labour Lite, the man is such a puppet.