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End of Life Choice Bill: A ResponseAugust 21, 2018 - 9:02 pm
Euthanasia is a weighty subject—a subject that cannot be broached without reflecting upon human suffering, harm, and death. Since the proposal of the End of Life Choice Bill (ELCB), euthanasia has been the subject of extensive public and private debate here in Aotearoa. For those unfamiliar with the bill, it proposes the legalisation of voluntary […]
Engaging with people on the problem of evilJuly 26, 2018 - 4:28 pm
Guest article written by Michael Otto. Originally posted at www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2018/07/11/engaging-with-people-on-the-problem-of-evil/. Republished with permission from NZ Catholic. It is not often that St Augustine and his wisdom are subjects of everyday conversation, but his thinking might be given more of an airing after US Christian apologist Mary Jo Sharp visited New Zealand. Mrs Sharp, a Professor […]
The Simulation HypothesisJuly 22, 2018 - 3:12 pm
The Hypothesis The concept of a computer simulation is familiar enough to the modern reader. It is a model world built by a computer scientist to test his or her theories of meteorology, the spread of diseases, economics and so forth. The proponent of the Simulation Hypothesis begins by supposing that there are no limits […]
Thoughts on why the Holy Bible is worth reading…June 27, 2018 - 4:12 pm
“‘The Authority and Relevance of the Bible in the Modern World’ – centers in the truth of the basic assumption of Biblical Christianity that the Bible, the Old Testament and the New, is what throughout it claims to be, the record of an unfolding revelation of God.” – E. M. Blacklock[1] I was given my […]
Why Does Anything At All Exist? Pt. 2June 5, 2018 - 1:12 pm
This is the second in a series of posts examining the argument for God’s existence from contingent beings. Click here to read the first post. In my previous post, I presented the cosmological argument from contingent beings[i], and defended the second premise. As a reminder, here’s how the argument runs: Everything that exists has an […]

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