Peter S Williams says: ‘I’m glad Christian Evidence are publishing this book because it’s one way of calling the bluff of influential but ignorant New Atheists who assert that there’s no evidence for the historical reliability of the Bible. Some so-called “sceptics” make rhetorical demands for evidence while turning a blind eye to relevant data… Read more »
In Defence of Arguments from Desire Re-Defending Arguments from Desire: A Second Response to Gregory Bassham Peter S. Williams (September 2016) In C.S. Lewis’s Christian Apologetics: Pro and Con (Leiden: Brill Rodopi, 2015), Gregory Bassham and I debated the argument from desire (AFD). As with all of the debates in this volume (which Dr Bassham… Read more »
download PDF Cardiff University Debate on ‘The Existence of God’ (February 2013) Opening Speech by Peter S. Williams My opening speech will offer a cumulative case of four arguments for theism. 1) A Moral Argument Coming to know that the earth goes around the sun was a matter of… Read more »
download PDF Five Arguments for God – by Peter S. Williams 1) A Kalam Cosmological Argument At a recent conference honouring physicist Stephen Hawking’s 70th birthday, atheist cosmologist Alexander Vilenkin affirmed that ‘All the evidence we have says that the universe had a beginning.’[1] A New Scientist editorial on the conference… Read more »
download PDF Terror From the Skies and the Existence of God (2001) by Peter S. Williams On Tuesday 11th September 2001, terrorists flew two hijacked jumbo jets into the World Trade Centre (and one into the Pentagon) causing death and destruction on an incomprehensible scale, on live TV. To consider the philosophical… Read more »
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download PDF The Skeptic’s Sceptic: Carl Sagan’s The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (Penguin, 2006) Reviewed in Four Parts by Peter S. Williams Part 1 Carl Sagan (1934-1996) – ‘the world’s best-known scientist in the late twentieth century’[1] – was Professor of Astronomy and Space… Read more »
download PDF Intelligent Designs on Science: A Surreply to Denis Alexander’s Critique of Intelligent Design Theory Peter S. Williams (MA, MPhil) I am gratified that my paper ‘Theistic Evolution & Intelligent Design in Dialogue’[1] has initiated a real life dialogue between these two fallible human attempts to understand origins. In ‘Designs on Science,’[2] Cambridge… Read more »
