Category Archives: Happenings

Thinking Matters Tauranga target of physical abuse

“Atheists have nothing to fear! Yeah Right!” Nice one TTM. As your newspaper interview reports, some people are not very tolerant. [Whispering...] I’ll bet that the intolerant vandals and thieves are people will go to work next day and tell everyone that tolerance is a virtue and they are models of such virtue… Check out [...]
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How Atheism Poisons Everything – a debate

The Fixed-Point Foundation will sponsor this debate on September 7th, 2010 in Birmingham, Alabama. The debaters are Christopher Hitchens and David Berlinski. Christopher Hitchens, author of God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, and Dr. David Berlinski, author of The Devil’s Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions. The question being debated: What are the [...]
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Public Lecture: The New Atheism, Science and Morality

Auckland lecture by Dr. Glenn Peoples. Hopefully it will be recorded…
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Son of Hamas Founder Granted Asylum in U.S.

Source Mosab Hassan was more shocked than anyone when a Department of Homeland Security official announced in immigration court today that government officials had changed their mind about him. Yesterday they saw him as a “threat to U.S. national security.” Today they say he’s welcome to stay in the United States and become a citizen. [...]
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Close-Up Footage of Mavi Marmara Passengers Attacking IDF Soldiers (With Sound)

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Preaching the Attributes of God

Christ Sanctuary (view our nice website here) are currently doing the following excellent series on an excellent subject… (and MP3s for the series are available on the website too) …so come and join us Sunday@10am and get your teeth into God’s Word! Tea and bikkies with the CS Community at about 12pm, but be in [...]
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August 30th, James White vs Christopher Hitchens — “Is the New Testament Evil?”

http://www.aomin.org NOTE: This debate has been postponed indefinitely
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L.T. Jeyachandran from Ravi Zacharias Ministries coming to NZ

Helping thinkers to believe and Believers to think… L.T. Jeyachandran from Ravi Zacharias International Ministries will speak on the resurrection of Jesus and challenge believers to defend their faith with confidence. Come and be Equipped! St. Theresa’s School Hall Riccarton Road ChristChurch (7pm, Friday the 21st May, 2010) Come with Family & Friends! Free Entry [...]
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Dr. Matt Flannagan, assistant to William Lane Craig

Seems that Matt Flannagan from MandM has hit the big time. Well, for a moment anyway. Check out the following snippet from William Lane Craig’s April 2010 newsletter… By contrast my debate the following evening at UNCC generated a lot of light but very little heat! My opponent for this debate on “Is God Real?” [...]
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The Apple that iWant

PCMag: Apple iPad video review from PCMag.com Reviews on Vimeo.
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Does Objective Moral Truth Exist? A Debate — Gregory Koukl & Dr. Sabina Magliocco

Support “Stand to Reason” by purchasing the MP3s of Greg’s debate: 2 Audio MP3 Files & Study Notes in PDF Greg debates Dr. Sabina Magliocco at California State University, Northridge just days after 9/11 on the question of moral truth. The resolve? Does objective moral truth exist? Dr. Magliocco thinks the answer is obvious – [...]
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Has Science Disproved God? Thinking Matters Auckland

This just came in on the newswire… Just a reminder to come to tomorrow night’s event featuring a panel of scientists, philosophers and theologians whom you can fire questions at around the topic “Has Science Disproved God?” at the University of Auckland. The speakers are: Neil Broom (PhD) is Professor and Head of the Department [...]
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The God Delusion Debate (Dawkins-Lennox)

The full video of this debate is online here. On October 3rd of 2007 in Birmingham, Alabama, Professor Richard Dawkins and his Oxford University colleague Professor John Lennox engaged in a lively debate over what is arguably the most critical question of our time: the existence of God. The debate centered on Dawkins’ views as [...]
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Will Richard Dawkins debate William Lane Craig?

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Stephen Meyer doing another debate in Tampa, FL

Stephen Meyer, Michael Medved, David Berlinski and Thomas Woodward are coming to Tampa Florida for Design vs. Darwin Event The debate between Darwin and design is coming to Tampa, Florida with a major one-night event featuring some of the leading voices challenging Darwinian evolution. Click here to register for this event: http://signatureinthecell.eventbrite.com/ Discovery Institute senior [...]
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Mark Driscoll On the ground in Haiti

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Ouch. Intelligent Design Guys Put the Sleeperhold on Darwin’s Defenders

From here: http://www.evolutionnews.org/2009/12/ouch_intelligent_design_guys_p.html The great debate over the adequacy of evolution continues. Sort of. The latest head to head meeting had Dr. Stephen Meyer and Dr. Richard Sternberg debating Dr. Michael Shermer and Dr. Donald Prothero. Heading into the debate I was quite excited; these aren’t lightweights, after all. The defenders of evolution are well [...]
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Debating the Origins of Life

Dr. Stephen Meyer will debate Skeptic magazine editor and Darwin defender Michael Shermer in Beverly Hills on Monday November 30. More info on Facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=184759894536&ref=share
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William Lane Craig vs. Francisco J. Ayala – Is Intelligent Design Viable?

Apologetics 315 has a bunch of stuff about this debate online, including the MP3 which is over 2 hours long and includes questions and answers from the floor. Moderator of the debate, Dr. Bradley Monton has kindly put up a review of the debate on his website here. I was really hoping for some knock-down [...]
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MONKEY BUSINESS: Evolution and Intelligent Design

There is usually more heat then light generated in the evolution wars. However, this video is actually pretty good imo. Thanks to the Hoover Institution for making this available! embedded by Embedded Video
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