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Entries from February 29th, 2012

Francesca Minerva and Matthew Flannagan on “After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?” on Radio

February 29th, 2012 41 Comments

Francesca Minerva and Alberto Giubilini‘s article “After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?” published in the Journal of Law, Ethics and Medicine is creating waves the world over. In a few hours, on the morning of Thursday 1 March, around 10:00am New Zealand time, Dr Minerva will be interviewed on this article on Radio Rhema’s Pat Brittenden […]

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Jerry Coyne on God and Morality Revisited

February 23rd, 2012 44 Comments

Late last year I, wrote a criticism of Jerry Coyne’s piece in USA today. Entitled, As  atheists know, you can be good without God.  My critique attracted some attention. Getting commentary from Mary Ann Spikes, Jason Thibodeau,  Jeffery Lay Lowder, and Brian Zamulinski.  Since the USA today article Coyne has written a follow up article where […]

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Matt on “The Panel” on Pat Brittenden Mornings – with David Slack

February 21st, 2012 2 Comments

Tune in to Radio Rhema at 11:40am (NZ time) today to hear this blog’s Matthew Flannagan and David Slack discuss topical issues on “The Panel” on Pat Brittenden morning. You can download the MP3 here or listen online here.

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Madeleine Registered

February 19th, 2012 6 Comments

News that many may have missed while we were in our moving house and not blogging mode is that Madeleine has been admitted to the Register of Lawyers, this means that she may now practice law and work in the areas restricted by law for lawyers. You can even go to the New Zealand Law […]

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Thinking Matters Youth Conference

February 16th, 2012 2 Comments

This Saturday is the first, of hopefully many, Thinking Matters Youth Conference, the schedule is  below.  I am leading a breakout session on Moral Relativism WHEN: Saturday, February 18 WHERE: Greenlane Christian Centre, 17 Marewa Rd, Greenlane, Auckland COST: $10 Schedule: 10am Registration 10.30am Jeff Tallon – Is Science a Threat to Faith? 11.30am Sean […]

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Philosophia Christi: Abstract Objects and Divine Command Ethics Down-Under

February 14th, 2012 1 Comment

In December we were told that Matt’s article “Tooley, Plantinga and the Deontological Problem of Evil”  had passed peer review and would be published in Philosophia Christi.  Issue, 13: 2  is  now out and if you look at the contents page you’ll see Matt’s article has now been published. The abstract to Matt’s article is as follows: […]

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Is Ethical Naturalism more Plausible than Supernaturalism? A Reply to Walter Sinnott-Armstrong Part I

February 7th, 2012 9 Comments

This is  first half of the paper I presented to the Naturalisms in Ethics Conference at Auckland University last year. In many of his addresses and debates William Lane Craig has defended a Divine Command Theory of moral obligation (“DCT”). In a recent article Walter Sinnott-Armstrong has criticized this contention.[1] Armstrong contends that even if […]

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