This blog’s Matt will join Brendan Malone, and other speakers, to talk at the 2013 Pro Life Internship Program in Kapiti, Wellington which is running from 1-6 July 2013. Matt’s talks will be: Tuesday 2 July 15:00 – 16:00 Moral Relativism and Abortion Wednesday 3 July 09:00 – 10:00 Kant, Utilitarianism and Abortion 10:10 – […]
Entries from June 26th, 2013
Is a Divine Command Theory Pscyopathic? Sam Harris on Divine Commands: Part II
June 25th, 2013 11 Comments
In my last post, Sam Harris on Divine Commands: Part I, I criticised Sam Harris’ characterisation of divine command meta-ethics. In this post I want to turn to his second line of criticism of a Divine Command Theory. In Harris’ debate with William Lane Craig at Notre Dame, transcript here, Harris stated: “I’m glad he raised the […]
Tags: Debates · Divine Command Theory · God and Morality · Is the Foundation of Morality Natural or Supernatural? · Religion and Violence · Sam Harris · William Lane Craig
Why Defamatory Speech is not Free Speech
June 22nd, 2013 42 Comments
The following is a representation of the standard argument as to why a remedy requiring the removal of defamatory speech from a publication is not a violation of the right to free speech: The right to Freedom of Expression is protected by s14 of the Bill of Rights Act 1990 (“BORA”). The operational provisions of […]
Tags: Defamation · Freedom of Speech · Rights and Freedoms
Auckland Conference: Science and Faith with Dr C John Collins
June 20th, 2013 Comments Off on Auckland Conference: Science and Faith with Dr C John Collins
Thinking Matters have a couple of conferences coming up in July with Dr C John Collins:Much of Western culture assumes that science and faith are foes, that faith and scientific naiveté go hand in hand, and that science has disproved the Bible and made faith irrelevant if not completely indefensible and undesirable. Come and hear […]
Tags: C. John Collins · Events · Science and Religion · Thinking Matters
Auckland Conference: Ancient Truth for Modern Times with Dr C John Collins
June 18th, 2013 Comments Off on Auckland Conference: Ancient Truth for Modern Times with Dr C John Collins
Thinking Matters have a couple of conferences coming up in July with Dr C John Collins: What is the Bible? What authority if any does the Bible have in the 21st Century? How should the Bible shape the life of the Church and individual believers? Our approach to Scripture is fundamental to our ability to […]
Tags: C. John Collins · Events · Thinking Matters
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.
