
Carl Sagan: The Skeptic's Sceptic
This extended review provides some excellent responses to arguments that Sagan used and which keep cropping up today.
Peter S. Williams (MA, MPhil) is Assistant Professor in Communication and Worldviews at Gimlekollen School of Journalism and Communication, NLA University College, Norway. He is author of many articles and books, including A Faithful Guide to Philosophy (Wipf and Stock, 2019), Getting at Jesus: A Comprehensive Critique of Neo-Atheist Nonsense about the Jesus of History (Wipf and Stock, 2019) and C.S.Lewis vs the New Atheists (Paternoster, 2013). His website is www.peterswilliams.com.
This extended review provides some excellent responses to arguments that Sagan used and which keep cropping up today.
In the twenty-first century, can people really still believe in angels and demons?
The ongoing scientific quest to explore space – 'the final frontier' – is intimately bound up with the search for 'strange new…
Peter S. Williams responds to Denis Alexander on the issue of the Christian and biblical understanding of evolution and intelligent design.
A.C. Grayling discusses the arguments in his book The God Argument with Peter S. Williams on Justin Brierley's 'Unbelievable?' radio…
Apologetics is often seen as an 'intellectual' activity, remote from everyday life. Peter S. Williams proposes a more holistic view.
Peter S. Williams offers his thoughts on philosopher A.C. Grayling's The Good Book: A Secular Bible. Note that Grayling lays his book out…
Review of Amazing Grace in the light of whether religion is a force for good or for bad.
A Universe From Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing (Free Press, 2012), by cosmologist Lawrence M. Krauss, has been lauded…