By: Rodney|16 November, 2012|Categories: Creation & Evolution . intelligent design . Thinking Matters Tauranga|Tags: Apologetics . Christianity . Creation . Evangelism . evolution . existence of God . intelligent design . new atheism
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Intelligent Design scholar Dr. Thomas Woodward (Wikipedia) will be visiting Tauranga for a few days in the second week of December 2012. Qualifications Dr. Woodward is Research Professor at Trinity College of Florida in Tampa Bay, where he has taught for 23 years. He has spoken on the topic of evolution, Intelligent Design and the existence of God at over…
Read more »By: Jason|30 May, 2012|Categories: Books|Tags: david h. glass . inerrancy . Mitch Stokes . new atheism . ravi zacharias . Vern Poythress
A Shot of Faith (to the Head): Be a Confident Believer in an Age of Cranky Atheists by Mitch Stokes (Thomas Nelson, 2012). 272 pages. “. . . A Shot of Faith to the Head takes the best tools of top-notch apologetics and philosophy and puts them in the hands of every believer. Even better, it’s easy and fun to…
Read more »By: Bnonn|09 November, 2011|Categories: Apologetics|Tags: new atheism . problems with The God Delusion . refuting Richard Dawkins . richard dawkins . The God Delusion . william lane craig
As he said he would, Richard Dawkins refused William Lane Craig’s invitation to debate him at the Sheldonian Theater in Oxford. So Craig went ahead and ripped his book apart without the distraction of having to respond to petulant ad hominem (entertaining as that would have been). The video is up; watch it below.
Read more »By: Jason|23 October, 2011|Categories: Philosophy of Religion|Tags: atheism . debate . new atheism . public discourse . richard dawkins
Daniel Came: James Barham: HT: Uncommon Descent
Read more »By: Bnonn|21 October, 2011|Categories: Apologetics . Debates|Tags: Apologetics . character assassination . existence of God . new atheism . propaganda . pure garbage . richard dawkins . smear tactics . spin-doctoring . william lane craig . WLC
Are Dawkins’ reasons for refusing to debate William Lane Craig good enough?
Read more »By: Bnonn|11 October, 2011|Categories: Christianity|Tags: American Atheists . culture . Ethics . islam . new atheism . terrorism
Bnonn responds to an article by the Georgia State Director of American Atheists.
Read more »By: Bnonn|29 June, 2011|Categories: Philosophy of Religion|Tags: Epistemology . Faith . John Loftus . new atheism . OTF . Outsider Test for Faith . Paul Manata
Paul Manata puts John Loftus’s Outsider Test for Faith in the ground once and for all.
Read more »By: Bnonn|16 May, 2011|Categories: Culture|Tags: Debates . new atheism . richard dawkins . science . william lane craig
Archbishop Cranmer on Dawkins’ drive to promote himself, at the expense of his scientific credibility and contributions.
Read more »By: Bnonn|20 April, 2011|Categories: Ethics|Tags: evolution . moral ontology . moral realism . morality . new atheism . Sam Harris . science . william lane craig
Bnonn takes New Zealand’s Village Atheist, Ken Perrott, to task for ineptly handling the foundations of human morality.
Read more »By: Bnonn|09 April, 2011|Categories: Humour|Tags: Debunking Christianity . John Loftus . la-la land . new atheism . Sam Harris . william lane craig
Some amused interaction with John Loftus’ contention that “Sam’s arguments were clearly better” in the recent Craig-Harris debate on whether God is the foundation for moral goodness.
Read more »By: Bnonn|07 April, 2011|Categories: Debates|Tags: ad hominem . argument from contingency . argument from morality . argument from the resurrection . debate . Divine Command Theory . existence of God . Kalam Cosmlogical Argument . Lawrence Krauss . new atheism . science . scientism . secularism . william lane craig
Some reflection on Lawrence Krauss’ recent comments on William Lane Craig, and the debate they did on whether there is evidence for the existence of God.
Read more »By: Jason|16 August, 2010|Categories: Events|Tags: auckland . auckland university . metaethics . moral facts . moral objectivism . neuroscience . new atheism . public events . relativism . Sam Harris
Glenn Peoples will be speaking at Auckland Uni this September.
Read more »By: Jason|19 May, 2010|Categories: Local|Tags: auckland . Events . John Bishop . new atheism . nicola Hoggard Creegan . theism
On Saturday the 29th of May, TANSA (Theology and the Natural Sciences in Aotearoa), in conjunction with the Vaughan Park Anglican Retreat Centre, will be holding a seminar on God and the new wave of atheism.
Read more »By: Jason|05 February, 2010|Categories: Apologetics . Headline|Tags: christ on campus initiative . God's existence . Gospel Coalition . Natural Theology . new atheism . The God Delusion . william lane craig
The question of God’s existence is one of the most urgent and consequential questions that we can ask. Today, despite the recovery of interest in the evidence for God among academic philosophers, many vigorously contend that religious belief is dangerous foolishness.
In the most recent Christ on Campus Initiative essay, William Lane Craig argues that there is compelling evidence for God. He offers five separate grounds for theistic belief, from the fine-tuning of the universe to the existence of objective moral values, and argues that, contrary to the objections of critics, these arguments remain persuasive.
Read more »By: Jason|25 January, 2010|Categories: Books|Tags: aughts . Daniel Dennett . David Hume . new atheism
Nathan Jacobson looks back on the last decade and surveys both the rise of atheism and the response of thinkers and commentators who have not been impressed by their arguments.
Read more »By: Jason|17 January, 2010|Categories: Books|Tags: David Hart . Logic . new atheism . Philosophy
David Hart reviews Richard Dawkins’ latest book and offers some pretty strong criticism of the British Zoologist’s grasp of logic and philosophy in The God Delusion.
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