Christian comedian Brad Stine is not pleased with people who get offended.
Oversensitive witches
Animal rights activists
Chopsticks and multiculturalism
And he’s conservative, too.
Poll shows that Canadians are uninformed about abortion law
Story from Life News. (H/T Mary)
Excerpt:
A new poll of Canadians finds they are very uninformed about abortion law in Canada and are unaware that abortions are allowed throughout pregnancy for any reason. That’s the finding from an online survey of 1,022 Canadian adult conducted by the Angus-Reid polling firm.
The survey found just 21 percent of Canadians know a woman can request an abortion at any time during her pregnancy, with no restrictions whatsoever.
Conversely, 41 percent of Canadians are under the impression abortions are only available to women during the first three months of pregnancy.
[…]A majority of Canadians (55%) think women under the age of 18 should require consent from their parents or legal guardians to get an abortion while just 32 percent disagree.
Also, half of respondents (50%) believe women should be given enough access to information about different options such as counseling and adoption before having an abortion while 31 percent disagree.
And a large majority, 79 percent, would support provincial legislation requiring health workers give information about alternatives to abortion to pregnant women.
Abortion and health care have been a huge topic for debate in the United States and 44 percent of Canadians believe abortions should be funded under the taxpayer-financed health care system. Another 39 percent say abortion funding should be limited to emergency cases.
Although most Canadians (55%) think there is no point in re-opening the debate on abortion in the country, three-in-ten respondents (30%) believe it is time to re-open the discussion.
The pro-lifers in Canada (CCBR) have their work cut out for them to inform people about the law, and I think there is room for the federal Conservative Party and the Alberta Wild Rose Alliance to introduce some common sense regulation on abortion – like requiring health workers to provide information about alternatives.
Podcasts from William Lane Craig, William Dembski and Scott Klusendorf
William Lane Craig vs Victor Stenger
Debate report on the recent re-match debate at Oregon State University.
Craig argued his standard case, except he added the ontological argument and the contingency argument and removed the fine-tuning argument. Stenger defended the Hartle-Hawking cosmology from over 25 years ago, and made an argument that the universe we see does not fit with what Stenger expects that God ought to do, if he existed.
Their first debate is here. (MP3 file)
Bill also talked briefly about some other recent events, including his events at Harvard and MIT.
William Lane Craig vs Michael Tooley
Debate report on the recent re-match debate at the University of North Carolina – Charlotte.
This starts with a discussion of how Stenger responded to the ontological argument (blech!). Tooley offers a very strong statement of the evidential/probabilistic/inductive problem of evil. He was very well prepared for the debate – maybe too prepared. He didn’t really respond to Bill Craig’s arguments in the debate – he seemed to read FOUR prepared speeches! The debate included discussions about what counts as evil, and also whether we are in a position to know that God has no reason for permitting a particular instance of apparently gratuitous evil.
Their first debate is here. (Transcript)
I’ve actually met Michael Tooley at a conference, and he’s a really nice quiet guy – but he supports infanticide.
William Lane Craig in South Africa
Debate report on the 4-man debate on the resurrection of Jesus with two South African atheists who have started a kind of liberal “Jesus Seminar” in South Africa. The debate was about how people should understand the text of the New Testament. Bill debated with a partner – Mike Licona.
Bill and Mike defended two contentions: 1) The resurrection was a literal historical event. 2) There is no good reason to deny this historical event. Paul argued from 1 Cor 15, the early sermons in Acts, and empty tomb that is talked in the gospels. One of the professors argued the “history of religions” view – that the New Testament is fiction that borrows from pagan mythology. Craig also argued that the pre-supposition of naturalism is not warranted given the state of the evidence from natural theology (science, etc.).
Bill seems to be doing a lot of travel around the world lately, which is just awesome!
