The philosopher Peter S Williams, whose new book, A Universe from Someone, argues that the universe has a personal creator, has been pondering questions about God’s existence for a very long time. ‘As a three-year-old, I surprised my mother by stopping in the middle of a road crossing to ask her: “If God made everything, who made God?” She doesn’t…
Is Artificial Intelligence a friend or foe of human flourishing? Does faith have any part to play in the robotics revolution, and the race to upgrade our bodies and even escape our planet? What does the future hold for humans? The former Astronomer Royal Lord Martin Rees, author of On The Future, recently met on […]
The scientists and public figures Richard Dawkins and Francis Collins recently met on a video call to discuss issues of biology, belief and the Covid pandemic. Dawkins is famous as an evolutionary biologist, and also as an energetic apologist for atheism, while Francis Collins is a geneticist and former head of the Human Genome Project, […]
Earlier this year, the first-ever discovery of a British crucifixion victim, dating back to the Roman occupation, was announced by archaeologists. The skeleton of a man in his late 20s or early 30s, which had a large iron nail driven through the right heel bone (the calcaneous), was found just outside the town of Fenstanton, […]
