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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Outside Boston: God, Value, and Meaning | |
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| Searching for Meaning | |
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| Atheism, Agnosticism, and Theism | |
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| The Argument from Morality | |
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| The Euthyphro Question | |
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| Limits on God's Power | |
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| Good as Part of the Divine Nature | |
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| Angels, Devils, and Knowing Which is Which | |
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| The Meaning of What? | |
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| Niagara, New York: Design and Evolution | |
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| The Grandeur of the Falls | |
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| Paley's Argument from Analogy | |
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| The Argument from Design | |
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| Creation vs. Chance | |
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| Creation vs. Evolution | |
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| Natural Selection and Chance | |
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| The Support for Evolution | |
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| The Challenge of Irreducible Complexity | |
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| Assessing Probabilities | |
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| The Panda's Thumb | |
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| From Niagara to Chicago: Life and Fine-Tuning | |
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| The Argument from Life | |
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| Arguing from Ignorance | |
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| Scientific Progress on the Origins of Life | |
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| The Argument from Consciousness | |
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| The Probability of Life's Emergence | |
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| The Limits of Science | |
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| The Fine-Tuning Argument | |
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| Selection Bias | |
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| The Multiple-Universes Hypothesis | |
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| The Belief in Our Own Specialness | |
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| The Problem of Prior Probabilities | |
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| A Finely-Tuned God | |
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| Chicago, Illinois, outside the Adler Planetarium: The Cosmological Argument | |
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| The Provocative Planetarium | |
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| The Cosmological Argument, First Pass | |
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| The Big Bang | |
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| A Contradiction in the Premises | |
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| Another Pass | |
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| The Principle of Sufficient Reason | |
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| Quantum Indeterminacy | |
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| Infinite Pasts and Infinite Beings | |
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| The Double Standard | |
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| The Argument from Contingency | |
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| Divine Freedom | |
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| More Double Standards | |
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| The Burden of Proof and the Missing Keys | |
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| Chicago, Illinois, in the Hotel: The Ontological Argument | |
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| The Ontological Argument | |
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| Anselm and the Fool | |
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| Places of the Mind | |
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| God and the Representation of God | |
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| Dreaming of Elvis | |
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| Gaunilo's Perfect Island | |
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| Kant's Diagnosis | |
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| Possible Worlds and the Necessity of God | |
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| The Impossibility of God | |
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| Imagination and Possibility | |
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| Somewhere in Iowa: Religious Experience, Testimony, and Miracles | |
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| The Ghost of Shoeless Joe | |
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| Testimony and Miracles | |
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| The Bible as Authority | |
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| Other Authorities | |
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| Religious Experience | |
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| Experience and Evidence | |
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| The Psychology of Religious Experience | |
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| Explaining Experience | |
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| Hume on Miracles | |
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| Holcomb, Kansas: The Problem of Evil | |
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| Murder, from Kansas to Kitty Genovese | |
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| The Problem of Evil | |
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| Omniomniomni | |
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| The Free Will Response | |
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| Circumventing Freedom | |
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| The Problem of Natural Disasters | |
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| Dark Clouds and Silver Linings | |
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| The Dependence of Good on Evil | |
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| The World as a Moral Proving Ground | |
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| Evil in the Big Picture | |
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| The Ship, The Captain, and the Grounds of Reasonable Belief | |
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| Las Vegas, Nevada: Pascal's Wager | |
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| Pascal's Wager | |
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| Prudential vs. Evidential Reasons | |
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| The Possibility and Legitimacy of Prudential Belief | |
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| Dominance and the Case for Gun Ownership | |
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| The Many-Gods Objection | |
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| California: Faith and the Rationality of Belief in God | |
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| The Weight of Combined Arguments | |
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| Kierkegaard and Heroic Leaps of Faith | |
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| The Dangers of Faith | |
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| Alternative Conceptions of God | |
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| Religion as Metaphor | |
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| The Dangers of Metaphor | |
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| Faith and Moral Disagreement | |
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| The Golden Gate | |
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| Reading Suggestions | |
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| Sources of Quotations | |
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| Index | |