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Entries from January 21st, 2021

Dawkin’s dilemma: How not to answer the question “Why Be Moral?”

January 21st, 2021 Comments Off on Dawkin’s dilemma: How not to answer the question “Why Be Moral?”

In his bestselling book, the God Delusion, Richard Dawkin’s responds to the question: “If there is no God, Why be good?” Posed like that, the question sounds positively ignoble. When a religious person puts it to me in this way (and many of them do), my immediate temptation is to issue the following challenge: ‘Do you really mean […]

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Abortion Hard Cases and Self Defence: Presentation

January 14th, 2021 Comments Off on Abortion Hard Cases and Self Defence: Presentation

This is the paper I presented to the Bioethics section of the  Evangelical Theological Society, annual meeting. In November last year. Abstract:Op ponents of abortion often agonise over two difficult cases. (a) Cases where the pregnancy originates in rape and (b) cases the pregnancy or threatens the life of the mother. This paper will explore […]

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The question “Why Be Moral?” and the book of Proverbs.

January 12th, 2021 1 Comment

I gave a brief talk at Orewa Community Church on 10 January 2020. The talk was part of a short series OCC are doing on the book of proverbs. It is available here. 

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