Tuesday 6 May 2008

Ethicist Peter Singer debates Andrew Sloan

About 2 weeks ago some of my buddies from Melbourne Uni days organized a debate between ethicist Peter Singer and Christian ethicist and OT specialist Andrew Sloan. You can watch it here, the subject is "Do You Need God to be Good?", and this is the question time.

I'm about 17 minutes into watching it now. Andrew Sloan at about the 15 minute mark has just done a brilliant job demolishing a straw-man that Peter Singer puts up about Christians supporting the institution of slavery out of Scripture.

Will get back to you when I've watched the rest of it, or you can click on the link and watch it yourself.

Fifi and I shared a house with debate moderator Andy for about a year. He made a mean spag bog. Boy was it mean.

1 comment:

Anthony Caruana said...

Never had the pleasure of Andy's spag bol but we shared breakfast every week for a few years in out Blokes Bible Study. It's a fascinating debate though and a great coup to get speakers of that calibre to go toe-to-toe.