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 […]
Entries from April 30th, 2011
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 […]
Tags: Apologetics 315 · Fallacy Friday Podcast · MP3 · Podcast
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 […]
Tags: Beretta Podcast · Glenn Peoples · Podcast · Say Hello to my Little Friend
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, […]
Tags: Apologetics 315 · Fallacy Friday Podcast · MP3 · Podcast
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 […]
Tags: ACC · Brian Otto · Car Accident
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 […]
Tags: Hermeneutics · Paul Copan
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 […]
Tags: Debates · Ethical Naturalism · God and Morality · Is the Foundation of Morality Natural or Supernatural? · Notre Dame · Robert Adams · Sam Harris · Wes Morriston · William Lane Craig
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.
