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 »
Monthly Archives: February 2016
Five Arguments for Theism
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 »
Terror from the skies and the Existence of God
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 »
Understanding the Trinity
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Jesus the Exorcist (Peer Reviewed)
download PDF Jesus the Exorcist by Peter S. Williams “What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are – the Holy One of God!” – Unnamed demon, (Mark 1:24). Synopsis The New Testament presents Jesus as, among other things, “an exorcist par excellence.”[1] Is… Read more »
Archelogical Evidence and the Divinity of Jesus
download PDF Archaeological Evidence and the Divinity of Jesus Peter S. Williams – Philosopher in Residence at the Damaris Trust UK and Assistant Professor in Communication and Worldviews at Gimlekollen School of Journalism and Communication in Norway. ‘While the Council of Nicea had important consequences, its significance has been exaggerated into legend by… Read more »
Spirituality & Education
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Apologetics in 3D (Peer-Reviewed)
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The Skeptic’s Skeptic
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 »
Intelligent Designs on Science
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 »