JustWilliam's.com

Solar website

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 04:10:33 -0500

My new Solar Physics website is now up and running at www-solar.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~williams, detailing the results of a recent Summer project.

What is a Cult?

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:53:06 -0500

I recently received the following question: "What is the difference between religion and a cult? I understand that a cult is a focused group who share a single passion zealously (away from the mainstream view). But, if that's so, is a religion just a large cult?"

Here's my attempt at an answer:

Kingdom Triangle (J.P. Moreland)

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:47:07 -0500

If I could pick out for you a few of the most formative books in my own intellectual development, as a believing Christian, J.P. Morelands Love Your God with All Your Mind would be jostling at the top. I wish I could thrust a copy of it into the hands of every Christian student, pastor and teacher. I can at least commend it to you as essential reading after C.S. Lewiss Mere Christianity, of course. But before you read either, I believe you should read Kingdom Triangle. And I think if you do read it carefully, cover to cover, you might just forgive me for putting J.P before Jack .

Sorry if I didn't get your message!

Sat, 23 Jun 2007 05:11:31 -0500

If you sent a message to JustWilliam's, or one of my subdomains, in the last few months, it's quite likely I didn't get it. Sorry.

Basically, I've been swamped with SPAM, and my site has suffered a number of serious attacks -- all during one of the busiest periods of my life (university, exams, moving house).

Holidays

Sat, 23 Jun 2007 05:04:36 -0500

Well, another academic year has ended, and we're well into the Summer holidays. I have uploaded some pictures of the area I'm staying in at the moment.

Some of you may have noticed that JustWilliam's has got a bit smaller. Some nasty attacks on this site have, unfortunately, forced me to close some of my subdomains. This is rather sad; I shall have to find some other way of making some "book money" for university. However, I have just opened a new Amazon shop (using Amazon's own program, this time) which you can get at by going to http://www.justwilliams.com/shop.htm. Feel free to use my contact form to email me any ideas and suggestions.

The Dawkins Delusion

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 10:38:10 -0600

"Does Richard Dawkins exist? Many people would say yes. Terry Tommyrot thinks otherwise. In a revealing interview on "The Big Questions", Dr. Tommyrot explains how belief in Richard Dawkins is, in fact, a harmful delusion, and how it can be explained scientifically."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QERyh9YYEis

Dealing with Doubt

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 10:35:52 -0600

I can't help suspecting that, all too often, we (as Christians) have tended to conflate the distinction between "faith" and "doubt" with moral opposites like "good" and "evil" - as if doubt was something like stealing cookies (or worse, committing adultery), and you should jolly well stop it at once! The solutions tend to be fast and brutal - digging in the doctrinal heels, whipping up an emotional storm, papering over the problems with cheap answers to difficult questions...

Does Richard Dawkins Exist?

Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:52:36 -0600

Someone posted me a link to an amusing parable by a chap called David Anderson entitled, "Does Richard Dawkins Exist?". Do read it, and then pass it on.

http://david.dw-perspective.org.uk/does-richard-dawkins-exist.html

(I have, quite frankly, completely lost faith in the Dawkins' hypothesis; he doesn't really exist.)

LogosLogic!

Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:07:21 -0500

LogosLogic (beta edition) has just been made available at http://logic.justwilliams.com.

LogosLogic is a sentential logic analysis program, written in PHP. You can use this program to test the consistency of sets, the validity of arguments, and the behaviour of complex sentences.

Maybe some time I'll extend it to tree diagramming -- though that could get a little complicated!

See what you think, and let me know if you find any bugs.

Philosophy Made Slightly Less Difficult

Tue, 04 Jul 2006 13:44:30 -0500

Over the last two centuries the confidence of Christians in the credibility of their faith has met significant challenges from a number of quarters. With the almost wholesale acceptance of a closed, naturalistic account of the origin of our species, and a growing conviction that science can explain everything about life and the universe, without the need for invoking the spooky supernatural, the floodwaters of unbelief have been rising about us on all sides, greedily devouring the grounds for faith and certainty. All the evidence, we are told, points to the absence of God, the obsolescence of religion, and the lack of any justifiable grounds for the Christian hope of the resurrection.