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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Limits of Theistic Explanation | |
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| Must the Universe Have a Cause? | |
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| The mysteries of existence | |
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| A first cause | |
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| The temporal and modal cosmological arguments | |
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| Problems with the first premise | |
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| Summary Further reading | |
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| Is God Necessary? | |
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| Possible worlds | |
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| The ontological argument | |
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| The modal ontological argument | |
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| God and modal realism | |
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| Summary Further reading | |
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| Could the Universe Have an Explanation? | |
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| A trivial explanation | |
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| Causes and casual explanations | |
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| Personal explanation | |
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| A necessary cause? | |
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| Summary Further reading | |
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| Are We the Outcome of Chance or Design? | |
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| Analogy and the teleological argument | |
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| Probability and the teleological argument | |
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| The concept of chance | |
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| The weak anthropic principle | |
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| Summary Further reading | |
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| Does the Universe Have a Purpose? | |
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| The strong anthropic principle | |
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| Teleology and casual reductionism: the selfish gene hypothesis | |
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| Teleology without casual reductionism | |
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| Summary Further reading | |
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| Moral Arguments for Atheism | |
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| Are God and Ethics Inseparable or Incompatible? | |
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| Plato's dilemma | |
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| Descriptive versus prescriptive morality | |
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| Moral realism and moral subjectivism | |
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| Pluralism and autonomy | |
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| Summary Further reading | |
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| Is there a Problem of Evil? | |
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| Disaster, depravity, deity and design | |
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| Determinism and human nature | |
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| Human freedom from the divine perspective | |
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| Can the theist refuse to answer the problem of evil? | |
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| Summary Further reading | |
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| Religion without God | |
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| Is God a Fiction? | |
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| Realism, positivism and instrumentalism | |
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| Radical theology | |
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| Fiction and the emotions | |
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| Atheism and religious practice | |
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| Summary Further reading | |
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| Is 'Does God Exist?' a real Question? | |
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| The deflationist argument | |
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| The argument applied to theism | |
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| Deflationism deflated? | |
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| Summary Further reading | |
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| Should the Atheist Fear Death? | |
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| Riddles of morality | |
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| The river of time and the sea of ice | |
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| Death in the mirror | |
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| Immortality: real and vicarious | |
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| Summary | |
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| Further reading Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |