I received the following last night: Dear Matthew Thank you telling your readers you apologised for not seeking my side of the story with regard to the Visiting Associate Professor imbroglio. I appreciate your honesty there. However, I was dismayed to read a new litany of innuendo about this. I am depressed that you should […]
Entries Tagged as 'Bill Cooke'
The Rationalists: Round Two
July 30th, 2007 4 Comments
In an earlier post I mentioned the schism within The New Zealand Association of Rationalist Humanists (NZARH) between former spokesperson Paul Litterick and current spokesperson Dr Bill Cooke. NZARH contend that Dr Cooke was a Professor at The State University of New York at Buffalo. Paul Litterick maintains this is false. Litterick claims Cooke was […]
Tags: Bill Cooke · NZARH · Paul Litterick · Rationalists
When Rationalists Implode
July 2nd, 2007 7 Comments
In 2002 I (Matt) publicly debated Dr Bill Cooke from the New Zealand Association of Rationalist Humanists (NZARH). I enjoyed the debate immensely and am confident that I won it. No one whom I know who has watched the debate disagrees with me on this. I was surprised at the time how weakly the arguments […]
Tags: Atheism · Bill Cooke · Craig Young · NZARH · Paul Litterick · Rationalists
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.
