This three-part blog series is essentially the talk I gave at the recent Clearing the Air Forum, which was entitled “Discovering Truth in the Synthesis of Science and Faith.” The audience was comprised of scientists, church leaders, journalists and other interested parties so this is a fairly lay introduction to epistemology. In my first post, […]
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Epistemology 101: Clash of Authorities Part III
July 24th, 2010 26 Comments
Tags: AGW · Alvin Plantinga · Climate Change · Epistemology · Faith and Reason · Science and Religion · Scientism
Epistemology 101: Science, Faith and Authority Part I
July 19th, 2010 14 Comments
This three-part blog series is essentially the talk I gave at the recent Clearing the Air Forum, which was entitled “Discovering Truth in the Synthesis of Science and Faith.” The audience was comprised of scientists, church leaders, journalists and other interested parties so this is a fairly lay introduction to epistemology. I was asked to […]
Tags: AGW · Climate Change · Edmund Gettier · Epistemology · Faith and Reason · Science and Religion
Clearing the Air: A Church Leaders Forum on Climate Change
July 6th, 2010 16 Comments
Matt has been asked to deliver the opening talk at the upcoming Clearing the Air Forum on 16-17 July 2010 at Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland. The forum has been organised by New Zealand Christian Network (visionnetwork) and its purpose is to look at the synthesis of science and faith on climate change try to […]
Tags: AGW · Climate Change · New Zealand Christian Network
Buckle your Belts as the ETS Arrives
July 1st, 2010 11 Comments
The Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) comes into force today. It is still not clear who we’ll be trading anything with (that implies that there are other parties in the scheme) but what is clear is that we are now all paying, dearly, for the controversial science and policies that many of us reject. Winter just […]
Tags: AGW · ETS · Global Warming
Methodology behind the Real Climate Change Science Hockey Stick Graph
January 16th, 2010 7 Comments
You’ll recall the groundbreaking announcement we made in our post Another Climate Change Science Hockey Stick Graph where we revealed the alarming hockey-stick shaped incline in the number of climate change scientists practising in the world today. In that post we suggested that if the trends continued the numbers were unsustainable. Yesterday we intercepted, stole, […]
Tags: AGW · Climate Change · Climategate · Global Warming · Hockey Stick Graph · Murray Hill
Another Climate Change Science Hockey Stick Graph
December 16th, 2009 19 Comments
Spotted this over at Hitting Metal with a Hammer in The real climate hockey stick revealed and had to have it: It really raises questions of sustainability.
Tags: AGW · Climate Change · Climategate · Global Warming · Hockey Stick Graph
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.
Epistemology 101: Science, Faith and Authority Part II
July 21st, 2010 12 Comments
This three-part blog series is essentially the talk I gave at the recent Clearing the Air Forum, which was entitled “Discovering Truth in the Synthesis of Science and Faith.” The audience was comprised of scientists, church leaders, journalists and other interested parties so this is a fairly lay introduction to epistemology. In my first post, […]
Tags: AGW · Clear · Climate Change · Epistemology · Faith and Reason · Greg Dawes · John Locke · Keisha Castle-Hughs · Nicholas Wolterstorff · Richard Dawkins · Roy Clouser · Science and Religion