Apologetics
Logic & Fallacies
The Atheism Web Introduction There’s a lot of debate on the net. Unfortunately, much of it is of very low quality. The aim of this document is to explain the basics of logical reasoning, and hopefully improve the overall quality of debate. The Concise Oxford English Dictionary defines logic as “the science of reasoning, proof, […]
The Stem Cell Debate: Ethical Questions
The story for the year 1997 was the cloning controversy, the public debate over cloning human beings. Ian Wilmut, the laboratory midwife to the world famous sheep, Dolly, never intended to clone a human being. He still opposes the idea. Almost everyone opposes the idea.Yet, the cultural explosion ignited by this new scientific achievement continues […]
Stem Cell Research
As someone with a disease which has no cure (Lupus) who comes into contact with people with similar diseases a lot, I find the loud proclamations against Stem Cell research painful to hear. For some of us the only hope of a cure (as opposed to a possible remission) is at this stage largely dependent […]
Saddam And The Palestinians
http://www.thewest.com.au/20020418/features/tw-features-home-sto50122.html ======== Suicide bombers backed by Iraq By Paul McGeough IRAQI leader Saddam Hussein is paying $US25,000 to encourage Palestinian suicide bombers to volunteer for martyrdom. In a provocative public ceremony yesterday in Tulkarm, 90km north of Jerusalem in the West Bank, the Arab Liberation Front opened Mr Saddam’s chequebook and paid $US500,000 ($942,000) to […]
Good Friday And The Aborigines
In my Good Friday sermon I was focusing on the way in which the crucifixion reveals the evil of humanity, and moved through a series of illustrations including the Forrest River massacre in Australia. This was an incident in which police and others responded to an altercation between a white boundary rider and an elderly […]
Catholics And Sexual Abuse
March 22, 2002 Wrong Labels Inflame Fears of Catholics By JOHN TIERNEY Now that we in the press have so energetically contemplated “the sins of the fathers,” as headline writers keep putting it, let us contemplate our own. Thanks to coverage of the Roman Catholic Church’s sex scandal, many people are afraid to let their […]
Stem Cell Research
I will try and outline the argument against (for now I am being brief due to being more unwell than usual this week – praise God for laptops). My understanding of this issue comes from studying similar moral problems at Macquarie University, and proof reading my husband’s PhD, which was on this topic. (some background […]
Charismatic Catholic Bishop Resigns Over Accusations Of Sexual Abuse
Franziskus Eisenbach was a Speaker at Evangelical Events in Germany Mainz, April 19 (2002) A German Roman Catholic Bishop who resigned after accusations of sexual abuse was a frequent speaker at evangelical events. The Vatican made Franziskus Eisenbach of Mainz step down after a court case had been dropped for lack of evidence. The […]
Stem Cell Research – More
Andrew Alder wrote: >> If the fundamental issue is the defence of the human then lets have a >> better definition of “human” than conception. > > Amen, Jim. I’d prefer to say “defence of the human individual”. But birth and > viability both have their problems as well as criteria for the start of […]
Stem Cell Research – Another View
THE QUEENSLAND BAPTIST April 10, 2002 Adult stem cells better for research than embryonic ones by Lynne Stringer* A Queensland doctor has said that diseases are more likely to be cured from research into adult stem cells, not embryonic stem cells. Dr David van Gend, Queensland secretary of the World Federation of Doctors who Respect […]
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