Maths
Professor Lennox will explain how an ordered and intelligible universe that operates according to determinable fixed rules supports a belief in a creator God. John will ask whether other plausible explanations exist and explain why his personal conclusion is that the evidence points to a creator God.

Time
Professor Paul Davies explains how the ‘arrow of time’ is not something that we can take as a given aspect of the universe and why it is further evidence suggesting that the universe is ‘fine tuned’ for life.

Science
Professor Ard Louis asks whether science can ever answer the big questions of life, such as why we are here and whether there is a purpose to life? Ard will suggest that even if science is regarded as the most successful endeavour that human beings have ever engaged in, it can never answer such existential questions.

Chaos
Professor Tom McLeish explains how apparently random aspects to the universe can nevertheless give rise to predictable behaviour and ordered structures, and how this persuades him that there is some higher intelligent force behind what we observe in the universe.

Suffering
Dr Sharon Dirckx examines the difficult question of suffering and whether it is still possible to believe in a loving God, even in a universe that at times appears cruel. Where do the most persuasive answers lie? Is there hope of a way through the difficulties we face?

Rights
Dr Andy Bannister looks at the concept of ‘Human Rights’ and argues that such values do not sit comfortably with an atheistic world view. Andy will explain the history of the concept and discuss whether such values can have any meaning or relevance unless underpinned by a higher philosophical moral framework.

Cross
Tom Holland looks at the influence of the teachings and life of Jesus on western thinking and history over the last 2000 years. Tom will explain how intrinsic Christian moral values and ideas are to our entire way of living regardless of whether we consider ourselves Christian or even religious.

Evidence
Stephen Foster draws on his background as a criminal barrister discussing the concept of ‘evidence’ and argues that objective facts support the rationality of a theistic or Christian world view.

Witnesses
Professor NT (Tom) Wright explores the historical evidence that supports the New Testament. Tom will argue that the gospel records represent reliable historical evidence of real events witnessed by real people and that arguments to the contrary are now so discredited as to be regarded as fanciful by any serious historian.