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• Can State Expropriation of Minerals be Justified? Part II

  In Can State Expropriation of Minerals be Justified? Part I, I set out a common law property rights argument drawing from the writings of jurists Blackstone and Locke as well as contemporary philosopher Ed Feser. I looked at what circumstances, if an...

• Should we Have Faith in the System? The Judge, the Bully & the Bus-Driver

  Sometimes judges get things right, really right, check this from the Herald: Judge Turns Tables on Driver’s Schoolboy Accuser A schoolbus driver was taken to court for grabbing the arm of a rowdy boy who would not stop pulling a girl’s...

• Can State Expropriation of Minerals be Justified? Part I

  New Zealand, like many nations, has a long history of the state taking real property, often without compensation. In this two part series I examine one sub-set of takings, minerals from the sub-soil of privately held property (although the argument h...

• Christianity on Trial @ Auckland University

  [ 16 March 2010; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Thinking Matters have organised some free to the public Q & A seminars at the University of Auckland. Christianity on Trial Today, many best-selling atheists argue that belief in God is delusional and a r...

• Contra Mundum: Secular Smoke Screens and Plato’s Euthyphro

  In “Religion: A Barrier to Clear Thinking,” the final article in the award winning series of lay philosophy articles published in the Christchurch Press, Canterbury based Philosopher Simon Clarke addressed the question, “what is the biggest obs...

• Auckland Bloggers Drinks – This Thursday

  [ 4 March 2010; 6:30 pm to 11:00 pm. ] On the first Thursday of every month, Auckland bloggers gather for the B3 (Bloggers Bar Bash). What: Auckland Bloggers Drinks When: Thursday 4 March from 6.30pm Where: Galbraiths, 2 Mt Eden Road, Mt Eden, Au...

• Has Science Disproved God? @ Auckland University

  [ 11 March 2010; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Thinking Matters have organised some free to the public Q & A seminars at the University of Auckland. Has Science Disproved God? Have the discoveries of modern science proved that belief in God is irra...

• Has Science Disproved God?

  [ 11 March 2010; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Thinking Matters have organised some free to the public Q & A seminars at the University of Auckland. Has Science Disproved God? Have the discoveries of modern science proved that belief in God is irra...

• Travis Eugene Burrell UPDATED

  A rape case that ended yesterday in Hamilton has my attention. It has my attention because the rapist, Travis Eugene Burrell, is the father of my two eldest children. Some months past the police contacted me wanting his address, which like a good cit...

• Featuring MandM

  This week both Matt and I have been featured in some blog carnivals: Matt’s pieces on biblical inerrancy, Inerrancy and Biblical Authority and Two Forms of Inerrancy, were featured in the Christian Carnival CCCXV at Ancient Hebrew Poetry. John...

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