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Entries from March 28th, 2011

Is there Evidence for God? William Lane Craig v Lawrence Krauss Streamed Live @ Auckland Uni

March 28th, 2011 8 Comments

On 30 March 2011 (US time) Dr Lawrence Krauss and Dr William Lane Craig will debate the moot Is there Evidence for God? at North Carolina State University. The debate will be moderated by His Honour Paul M Newby, Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina. Thinking Matters, Evangelical Union and the Reason and Science […]

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Fallacy Friday Podcast on Apologetics 315: The Straw Man

March 27th, 2011 Comments Off on Fallacy Friday Podcast on Apologetics 315: The Straw Man

Apologetics 315 are producing an audio version of Matt’s Fallacy Friday series. The Fallacy Friday Podcasts are released every Friday on Apologetics 315. You can subscribe using: • RSS Feed • iTunes • One-Click The Mp3 of The Straw Man is here. To navigate the series in print, use the Fallacy Friday tag, to navigate MP3 series use the […]

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Fallacy Friday: Ad Misericordiam (Appeal to Pity)

March 25th, 2011 13 Comments

This week I will look at the ad misericordiam fallacy, the fallacy of appealing to pity. Perhaps the best example I have come across is one used by my friend Francis Beckwith; In his book Politically Correct Death: Answering Arguments for Abortion Rights, Beckwith cites the following letter to the editor: The fallacy in this […]

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Internationalism is Dead: Boneparte’s Descendants

March 24th, 2011 13 Comments

OK, so we thought that you would want to hear it here first. Internationalism–the idea that nation states are subject to a higher “sovereignty”– is dead. The corpse is rotting. The Libyan “adventure”, called for by the UN, is growing madder than a March Hare. All the problems and faults of internationalism are now clearly […]

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Hear all of John Lennox’s New Zealand Talks

March 23rd, 2011 2 Comments

John Lennox recently toured New Zealand and most of his hosts recorded his talks. Here are all the MP3s of Lennox’s New Zealand talks handily in one post. Howick Baptist Sunday morning service (27 Feb) – Why? Considering the Goodness and Sovereignty of God in the Midst of Suffering (video here). Greenlane Christian Center evening service […]

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Fallacy Friday Podcast on Apologetics 315: The Genetic Fallacy

March 21st, 2011 2 Comments

Apologetics 315 are producing an audio version of Matt’s Fallacy Friday series. The Fallacy Friday Podcasts are released every Friday on Apologetics 315. You can subscribe using: • RSS Feed • Via iTunes • one-click to your feed-reader The Mp3 of The Genetic Fallacy is here. To navigate the series in print, use the Fallacy Friday tag, to navigate […]

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Fallacy Friday: Petitio Principii (Begging the Question)

March 19th, 2011 7 Comments

For the last few Fridays I have been publishing a blog series on logical fallacies. This begs the question, what fallacy will I discuss today? The above sentence illustrates how the  phrase “begs the question” is commonly misused. To test how pervasive this misuse is I typed “this begs the question” into Google and limited it […]

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