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Nickname: peterswilliams
Location: England
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I am a full time Christian philosopher/apologist working with the Southampton based Damaris Trust (www.damaris.org) I am author of 'The Case for God' (Monarch, 1999), 'The Case for Angels' (Paternoster 2002) 'I wish I could believe in meaning: a response to nihilism' (Damaris, 2004) & A Sceptic's Guide to Atheism (Paternoster, 2009). I am co-author of 'Back in Time: A Thinking Fan's Guide to Doc… Read moreI am a full time Christian philosopher/apologist working with the Southampton based Damaris Trust (www.damaris.org) I am author of 'The Case for God' (Monarch, 1999), 'The Case for Angels' (Paternoster 2002) 'I wish I could believe in meaning: a response to nihilism' (Damaris, 2004) & A Sceptic's Guide to Atheism (Paternoster, 2009). I am co-author of 'Back in Time: A Thinking Fan's Guide to Doctor Who' (Damaris, 2005)and contributed chapters to 'Matrix Revelations: A Thinking Fans Guide to the Matrix Trilogy' (Damaris, 2003) among other books. I have been published in various magazines and journals, including leading philosophy of religion journal 'Philosophia Christi'. cf my ARN Author's Page @ www.arn.org/williams/pwhome.htm & my blog @ www.idpluspeterswilliams.blogspot.com
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Reviewer Rank: 8,065 - Total Helpful Votes: 361 of 568
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186 of 214 people found the following review helpful:
After fifty years as a leading non-theistic philosopher, whose challenges to theistic thinkers did much to shape the debate about God, Flew declared himself convinced of the existence of a God (although not of any particular religious tradition) in 2004, thereby sending shock-waves through the atheist community.
Unfortunately, several prominent atheists responded to Flew's apostasy with ad hominem assertions about his losing his marbles in his dotage (yes he is getting slower and forgetful, especially of names; but his solo interviews and writings seem lucid, and his arguments should be taken on their own merit), or about his hedging his bets with respect to the afterlife… Read more
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52 of 84 people found the following review helpful:
This is a well-informed, short critique of Darwinian macro-evolution written by a doctor who is not a young-earth creationist. The book summarises arguments from 'irreducible complexity' (a la Behe's 'Darwin's Black Box') and the origin of self-replicating life (a la Stephen C. Meyer). It contains an interesting discussion of the fossil record and of several Darwinian 'icons'. In my view, however, Latham's book is particularly note-worthy for its last but one chapter, a sucinct but devistating point by point critique of Richard Dawkins' famous book 'The Blind Watchmaker'.
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21 of 140 people found the following review helpful:
Baggini's introduction to atheism (which turns out to be an introduction to metaphysical naturalism) is unfortunately stuffed with many attacks upon 'straw-men'. Baggini summarizes (unreferenced) theistic arguments in the weakest form imaginable and then dismisses them as if by doing so he had defeated even the most sophisticated philosophical argument as actually employed by theists! Baggini also employs several false analogies to make his case, and occasionally decends to 'ad homenim' remarks. Baggini sets out to show that, contry to received opinion, atheism is not a 'negative' worldview. He then proceeds to argue that because there is no God (and because naturalism is true) there… Read more
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