This blog’s Matthew Flannagan has had his paper “Abortion as Self Defence” accepted for the 66th Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (“ETS”) in San Diego, USA, from 19-21 November 2014. The abstract for Matt’s paper is as follows: Abstract Eileen McDonagh has proposed an ingenious argument for abortion rights; she concedes, for the sake of argument, that […]
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Matt to speak at the 2014 Evangelical Theological Society in San Deigo
October 1st, 2014 3 Comments
Tags: Abortion · ETS · Evangelical Theological Society · Feticide · San Diego
Matt to speak at the 2013 Evangelical Theological Society in Baltimore on Feticide
September 19th, 2013 3 Comments
This blog’s Matthew Flannagan has had his paper “Boonin’s Defense of the Sentience Criterion: A Critique” accepted for the 65th Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (“ETS”). The abstract for Matt’s paper is as follows: Abstract “Defenders of the permissibility of feticide commonly argue that killing an organism is not homicide unless the organism’s brain has […]
Tags: Abortion · Baltimore · David Boonin · ETS · Evangelical Theological Society · Feticide · Sentience
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
NIWA, Climategate and Evasive Fallacious Answers
December 2nd, 2009 96 Comments
Climategate has come to New Zealand. The fuel providing the heat is a recent criticism of New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) by the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition (NZCSC).
Tags: Climate Change · Climategate · Copenhagen · ETS · Gareth Renowden · Global Warming · Ian Wishart · MacDoctor · NIWA · Public Policy
Climate Change Statistics Humour
November 30th, 2009 8 Comments
In the wake of climategate we bring you some levity. Hat tip: Karen Bridgman
Tags: Climate Change · Climategate · ETS · Global Warming
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.
Auckland Public Meeting: Climategate, NIWA and the ETS
December 4th, 2009 23 Comments
In the wake of climategate, the NIWA contraversy and public concern over the effect of the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) legislation a public meeting will be held in Auckland on Monday featuring Richard Treadgold, convenor of the Climate Conversation Group, who collated the paper Are we Feeling Warmer Yet? that Matt drew from in NIWA, […]
Tags: Climate Change · Climategate · ETS · Global Warming · John Boscawen · NIWA · Public Policy · Richard Treadgold