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In Defence Of Arguments From Desire

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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 »

Cardiff University “Does God Exist?” opening speech

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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 »

Five Arguments for Theism

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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

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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 »

Contra Grayling – A critique of “Against All Gods”

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download PDF Contra Grayling   A Christian Response to Against All Gods (Oberon Books, 2007)   By Peter S. Williams (MA, MPhil)     A.C. Grayling, Professor of Philosophy at Birbeck College, University of London, begins his self-described polemic against religion with a question and an answer: ‘Does Religion deserve respect? I argue that it… Read more »