By Ian Wishart We all know about the Hollywood casting couch; well, the news business has one of its own. Young naive ignorant junior journalists are invited in, plied with freebies and told to bend […]
CHAPTER 9 THE MYTH OF CHRIST By Ian Wishart “There is overwhelming evidence that the New Testament is a reliable record composed by contemporaries and eyewitnesses of the events” – Norman Geisler, New Testament […]
CHAPTER 6 The Probability of God By Ian Wishart “God, though not technically disprovable, is very very improbable indeed” – Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion If you have read this book right through […]
CHAPTER 5 HOW WRONG IS HITCH? By Ian Wishart “They are wrong, they are reliably, verifiably and factually incorrect. Richard Dawkins is wrong. Daniel C. Dennett is wrong. Christopher Hitchens is drunk, and he’s […]
CHAPTER 4 The Improbability of Earth By Ian Wishart “Banishing the One Creator God, they would then end up with what has been described as the ultimate in polytheism – a universe in […]
CHAPTER 3 The Moment Of Creation By Ian Wishart “In China, we can criticize Darwin, but not the government; in America, you can criticize the government, but not Darwin” Jun-Yuan Chen, paleontologist One […]
CHAPTER 2 In The Beginning By Ian Wishart “I am attacking God, all gods, anything and everything supernatural, wherever and whenever they have been or will be invented” Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion […]
CHAPTER 1 THE QUEST FOR FIRE By Ian Wishart “The God Hypothesis comes in many versions. Historians of religion recognize a progression from primitive tribal animisms, through polytheisms such as those of the Greeks, Romans […]
The Divinity Code by Ian Wishart Prologue And So It Begins… Dawkins’ Challenge “I shall suggest that the existence of God is a scientific hypothesis like any other…even if God’s existence is never proved with […]
The very real threats to New Zealand? It’s not as if they aren’t substantial. And this Key-led government is causing considerable concern, perhaps not to a prattling commentariat, but to the country at large. Away […]
When Meriam Ibrahim, her little son in prison with her, was recently shackled to a prison floor in Sudan, condemned to death in two years’ time for being a Christian, she was kept fastened in […]
Reaching Out By Chloe Milne I write this from John F Kennedy International airport hours before I board a flight that will start me on a European trip, taking me to seven different countries before […]
By Michael Baines Like all issues, the debate over creating some controls on the commercial operation ofbaches by local authorities is the tip of the iceberg. It is a case of seeing the symptom as […]
TOUGH QUESTIONS: May 05, AU Edition IAN WISHART Debating the Resurrection – is it important? So that was Easter. You know, the time of year when we all jump in cars for a long weekend […]
TOUGH QUESTIONS: Nov 05, AU Edition IAN WISHART We’re all fundamentalists now They’re just another raving bunch of fundamentalists! Now there’s a phrase you’ll hear on talk radio if you listen hard enough. Fundamentalist. The […]
TOUGH QUESTIONS: July 05, AU Edition IAN WISHART The death of a child I suspect many people remember this song: ‘Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven? Would you be the […]
return to part two or start from the beginning By Amy Brooke, cont’d This Ngai Tahu 1998 settlement is an important one to focus on, as is it particularly relevant in scrutinising the workings of the […]
From part one: By Amy Brooke, cont’d A recent troubling example of a very possibly opportunistic claim has been substantiated in detail by historians and researchers Ross Baker and Martin Doutre in submissions to the […]
OPINION Barbarians well inside the gates now By Hal G.P. Colebatch In 313 the Edict of Milan granted general freedom of religion and made Christianity tolerated throughout the Roman Empire. Christianity henceforth grained ground over […]
BARBARIANS AT THE GATES Britain’s war on families and its results Investigate Feb 2009 When commentators question the wisdom of liberal social attitudes, many in the media call them ‘dinosaurs’, and ‘trapped in the past’. […]
OPINION BY IAN WISHART The Journal of Medical Ethics has set a bombshell under the abortion movement worldwide, by admitting there is no moral, health or humanity difference between infant children and embryos, and they […]
OPINION BY BILL MUEHLENBERG Opposing Baby-Killing Is Now ‘Hate Speech’ I have just written about two academics who have offered a spirited defence of killing newborn babies. Now the editor of the journal they were […]
OPINION BY IAN WISHART American computer scientist and business consultant John Mashey has been making hay from documents suggesting conservative think tank Heartland has funded climate skeptics. The irony is that the firm Mashey and […]
OPINION BY IAN WISHART The High Court ruling on overseas investment promises to be a precedent setter, and not before time. For years, observers of New Zealand’s foreign investment policy have nursed an increasingly nagging […]
New Zealand Post has caused a stir this week amongst its business customers with a letter advising it will no longer be accepting cheques in the mail as payment for its accounts. With email already […]
EYES RIGHT, INVESTIGATE HIS BY RICHARD PROSSER Another year has passed, as they do, faster and faster it seems, the older I get. Another year older and deeper in debt, the song says; not so […]
Analysis and Commentary from UN Watch in Geneva Oct. 3, 2011 Issue 315 In September 2010 the United Nations Human Rights Council lashed out at UN Watch for exposing the failure of its flotilla inquiry […]
You know you’re soaking in it… BY CHLOE MILNE, INVESTIGATE HERS MAGAZINE University students get blamed for a lot of things… Like burning couches, causing riots, stealing road signs, wasting police and medical resources and […]
The Frightful Rule of the Elites BY BILL MUEHLENBERG Many leftist academics have long ago abandoned the notion that ordinary citizens are fit for governing. They in fact believe they are unfit, and only “experts” […]
In 2010, The New Zealand Family Court (thereafter “the Court”), managing proceedings covering 23 Acts of Parliament, received 68,666 new applications to assist in resolving various types of family conflict, with Court expenditure reported by […]
The Vitamin C Debate Medical ethics professor Grant Gillett wades into the Vitamin C debate First, I must say I am not an authority on Vitamin C but I take from the documents I have […]
A politically correct Narnia By Hal G. P. Colebatch Political correctness has now raised its head is what one would have thought a stronghold of traditional Christianity – the work of C. S. Lewis. To […]
THE GATHERING STORM THE CASE AGAINST THE FORESHORE LAW CHANGE The Foreshore and Seabed legislation comes to a head in February but the Government is taking a pasting from both sides in the debate. One […]
New Scientist writer Fred Pearce, whose global warming articles I debunked in Air Con, appears to be running the white flag up the pole. In an article for Rajendra Pachauri’s climate unit at Yale, Pearce […]
CHRIS CARTER A state-sponsored frontal lobotomy How do you finally discover that you have crossed the threshold as it were and become, irrevocably, a grizzly old bastard? Could some of the signs, for instance, be […]
IAN WISHART Killing us softly with their song Cellphones kill 17 in road crashes”, screamed the newspaper headline, or something like it. I almost choked on the latte (come on, I live in Auckland). Seventeen […]
ALAN RM JONES The year of the monkey… It was an annus horribilis for an increasingly isolated and beleaguered Republican president under attack from a scathing media and irresolute Democrats in Congress. Each day’s news […]
ANN COULTER The problem of fruitbat university lecturers… University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill has written that “unquestionably, America has earned” the attack of 9/11. He calls the attack itself a result of “gallant sacrifices […]
JAMES MORROW Get ready for a long, hot summer… Anyone who has ever taken a holiday in a beach community knows that such places can be fairly insular places. When so much time is spent […]
RICHARD PROSSER A burning question A millennium dawns, and a power and environmental crisis beckons. Or does it? The globe is warming, oil is running out, and it’s all our fault, apparently. Mankind’s fondness for […]
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