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Entries from April 30th, 2011

Fallacy Friday: Denying the Antecedent

April 30th, 2011 31 Comments

This week I will look at the fallacy of denying the antecedent. Before I can elaborate exactly what is involved in this fallacy, it is important to introduce and analyse some valid arguments that are superficially similar. Modus Ponens One of the very first valid inferences one learns in logic is modus ponens. To use […]

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Fallacy Friday Podcast on Apologetics 315: Petitio Principii (Begging the Question)

April 28th, 2011 Comments Off on Fallacy Friday Podcast on Apologetics 315: Petitio Principii (Begging the Question)

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 Petitio Principii (Begging the Question) is here. To navigate the series in print, use the Fallacy Friday tag, to navigate MP3 […]

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The Top 10 Beretta Podcast Episodes

April 24th, 2011 3 Comments

I have recently acquired a great interest in listening to philosophy of religion podcasts. My favourite podcast is the Beretta Podcast over at Say Hello to my Little Friend. My interest in the Beretta-cast came about after I clicked on a link on Facebook to a podcast on the notorious Zeitgeist ‘documentary’ and discovered it was created by […]

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Fallacy Friday Podcast on Apologetics 315: False Cause & Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc

April 22nd, 2011 Comments Off on Fallacy Friday Podcast on Apologetics 315: False Cause & Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc

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 False Cause & Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc is here. To navigate the series in print, use the Fallacy Friday tag, […]

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ACC Wars: Deja Vu? (Tribunal Result Update)

April 20th, 2011 10 Comments

On the eve of my hearing tomorrow [finally!] against the Accident Compensation Corporation (“ACC”) this appeared in today’s New Zealand Herald: “An Auckland man has won his battle against ACC after a court found its specialist diagnosed degeneration without having looked at an MRI scan of the injury.” Guess who the specialist was? The SAME […]

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Moving Beyond Sunday School

April 19th, 2011 9 Comments

On this blog we often rail against new-atheist readings of Biblical texts. Our pages are littered with expositions as to what a text is really saying when you consider the context, genre and textual evidence, all of which demonstrates that the new-atheist readings of the texts are at best wanting and at worst down-right stupid […]

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Debate Review: Sam Harris and William Lane Craig on Ethical Naturalism Part II

April 18th, 2011 41 Comments

In Part I of my review of the debate between Sam Harris and William Lane Craig on the moot “Is the Foundation of Morality Natural or Supernatural? I discussed Craig’s defence of the contention that: 1. If God exists then we have a plausible account of (a) the nature of moral goodness and (b) the nature of […]

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