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Intelligent Design Scholar-Historian Dr. Thomas Woodward in Tauranga in December

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…

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New Books Defending Christianity

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…

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Dawkins doesn’t show, Craig shreds his book in front of a packed hall

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.

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The Cynical Anti-Intellectualism of Dawkins

Daniel Came: James Barham: HT: Uncommon Descent

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Richard Dawkins for Prime Minister

Are Dawkins’ reasons for refusing to debate William Lane Craig good enough?

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New milestone: fundamentalist atheism now indistinguishable from parody of itself

Bnonn responds to an article by the Georgia State Director of American Atheists.

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How to Know Who Should Take an Outsider Test and When

Paul Manata puts John Loftus’s Outsider Test for Faith in the ground once and for all.

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The embarrassing truth about Richard Dawkins

Archbishop Cranmer on Dawkins’ drive to promote himself, at the expense of his scientific credibility and contributions.

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Scientist talks morality, slips on banana peel

Bnonn takes New Zealand’s Village Atheist, Ken Perrott, to task for ineptly handling the foundations of human morality.

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John Loftus is tripping on shrooms, and other tales of New Atheist la-la-lands

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.

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Krauss on Craig: “disingenuous distortions, simplifications, and outright lies”

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.

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Auckland Event: The New Atheism, Science, and Morality

Glenn Peoples will be speaking at Auckland Uni this September.

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Auckland Event: God in the Light of the Critics

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.

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Five Arguments for God

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.

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The Decade of 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.

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"The single most incompetent logical argument ever made"

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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