March 2012 Screwballs

[jpholding]

James White doesn't quite have JP's street cred for dealing with raisin cakes, but he's getting there by going after a KJV Onlyist named Sam Gipp. These people are unbelievable.

He must be running out of topics.

[Benson Shays]

He must be running out of topics.

He's been at it for a long time, I know. But I'm amazed the KJV Only club persists.

[Teluog]

I imagine Simpleton was hoping none of us would have any idea what it was, so that he could make himself sound smarter referring to it.

I love how the one guy says this about WLC:

And a very poor publication history. He’s an apologist, not a philospher

[Chrawnus]

I love how the one guy says this about WLC:

http://www.reasonablefaith.org/site/...lications_main <--This is a poor publication history?

[Benson Shays]

http://www.reasonablefaith.org/site/...lications_main <--This is a poor publication history?

Don't try to understand stupid.

[Teluog]

http://www.reasonablefaith.org/site/...lications_main <--This is a poor publication history?

Of course. He's an apologist, not a philosopher!

[TolkienFan]

Subscribing.

[KingsGambit]

Anti-screwball to Craig Blomberg for a great blog post. Although he didn't direct the application of what he was saying directly at Christians so much as he did to skeptics, I think there is a great deal of relevance toward Christians who aren't well versed in apologetics (or who are even suspicious of it!)

http://www.denverseminary.edu/craig-...rebellion-or-/

[GK Kirbyton]

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110904163523AAwwcP5 -- may be Platinum if it isn't a joke.

Don't you know? 99.99999999992% of Yahoo Answers are troll question.

Screwball to my College's (GGC) Atheism Club for recruiting Richard Dawkins to speak at our school. Until he at least apologizes for breaking his word on the WLC-Dawkins debate, he doesn't deserve any speaking money or credibility.

[Benson Shays]

Anti-screwball to Craig Blomberg for a great blog post. Although he didn't direct the application of what he was saying directly at Christians so much as he did to skeptics, I think there is a great deal of relevance toward Christians who aren't well versed in apologetics (or who are even suspicious of it!)

http://www.denverseminary.edu/craig-...rebellion-or-/

I didn't know he blogged. Thanks.

[Raphael]

Slippery slope? What Slippery slope?

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/6510781...nt-to-abortion

Stuff.co.nz

Outrage over newborn abortion claim
Killing newborns is morally the same as abortion and should be permissible if the mother wishes it, Australian philosophers have argued in an article that has unleashed a firestorm of criticism and forced the British Medical Journal to defend its publication.

Alberto Giubilini, from Monash University, and Francesca Minerva, from the University of Melbourne, say a foetus and a newborn are equivalent in their lack of a sense of their own life and aspiration. They contend this justifies what they call "after-birth abortion" as long as it is painless, because the baby is not harmed by missing out on a life it cannot conceptualise.

About a third of infants with Down syndrome are not diagnosed prenatally, Drs Giubilini and Minerva say, and mothers of children with serious abnormalities should have the chance to end the child's life after, as well as before, birth.

But this should also extend to healthy infants, the pair argue in the BMJ group's Journal of Medical Ethics, because the interests of a mother who is unwilling to care for it outweigh a baby's claims.

The academics call an infant, like a foetus, only a "potential person", but they do not define the point at which it gains human status, saying this depends on the baby's degree of self-awareness and is a matter for neurologists and psychologists.
[article continues]

© source where applicable

Words cannot express my feelings on this matter, save to say that abortion should be made illegal.

[Catholicity]

Words cannot express my feelings on this matter, save to say that abortion should be made illegal.

I know some words that aren't permissible on tweb and I'd like a paper shredder for that medical journal. however you are correct, obviously, it should be illegal

[GK Kirbyton]

Slippery slope? What Slippery slope?

Words cannot express my feelings on this matter, save to say that abortion should be made illegal.

The saddest thing about these two so-called "ethicists" is that they are not the first ones to promote infantcide and unlimited abortion. Peter Singer in the 1970's comes to mind.

[Raphael]

Slippery slope? What Slippery slope?

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/6510781...nt-to-abortion

Stuff.co.nz

Outrage over newborn abortion claim
Killing newborns is morally the same as abortion and should be permissible if the mother wishes it, Australian philosophers have argued in an article that has unleashed a firestorm of criticism and forced the British Medical Journal to defend its publication.

Alberto Giubilini, from Monash University, and Francesca Minerva, from the University of Melbourne, say a foetus and a newborn are equivalent in their lack of a sense of their own life and aspiration. They contend this justifies what they call "after-birth abortion" as long as it is painless, because the baby is not harmed by missing out on a life it cannot conceptualise.

About a third of infants with Down syndrome are not diagnosed prenatally, Drs Giubilini and Minerva say, and mothers of children with serious abnormalities should have the chance to end the child's life after, as well as before, birth.

But this should also extend to healthy infants, the pair argue in the BMJ group's Journal of Medical Ethics, because the interests of a mother who is unwilling to care for it outweigh a baby's claims.

The academics call an infant, like a foetus, only a "potential person", but they do not define the point at which it gains human status, saying this depends on the baby's degree of self-awareness and is a matter for neurologists and psychologists.
[article continues]

© source where applicable

Words cannot express my feelings on this matter, save to say that abortion should be made illegal.

Platinum Sanity Award to the Flannagan's for this excellent response: http://www.mandm.org.nz/2012/02/10262.html

[Benson Shays]

Matt Flanagan tore into those arguments yesterday on a New Zealand radio program, highlighting the slippery slope argument.