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| Acknowledgments | |
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| The Conflict between Religion and Materialism | |
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| The Materialist Creed | |
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| Materialism as an Anti-Religious Mythology | |
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| Scientific Materialism and Nature | |
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| The Scientific Materialistis View of Nature | |
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| Five Plot Twists | |
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| A New Story and a New Moral | |
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| In the Beginning | |
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| The Expectations | |
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| How Things Looked One Hundred Years Ago | |
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| The Big Bang | |
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| The Discovery of the Big Bang | |
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| Attempts to Avoid the Big Bang | |
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| The Big Bang Confirmed | |
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| Was the Big Bang Really the Beginning? | |
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| The Universe in the Standard Big Bang Model | |
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| The Bouncing Universe Scenario | |
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| The Baby Universes Scenario | |
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| The Eternal Inflation Scenario | |
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| What If the Big Bang Was Not the Beginning? | |
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| Is the Universe Designed? | |
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| The Argument from Design | |
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| The Cosmic Design | |
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| Two Kinds of Design | |
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| The Attack on the Argument from Design | |
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| Pure Chance | |
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| The Laws of Nature | |
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| Natural Selection | |
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| The Design Argument and the Laws of Nature | |
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| Two Ways to Think about Laws of Nature | |
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| In Science, Order Comes from Order | |
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| In Science, Order Comes from Greater Order | |
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| An Example Taken from Nature: The Growth of Crystals | |
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| The Order in the Heavens | |
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| Symmetry and Beauty in the Laws of Nature | |
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| "What Immortal Hand or Eye?" | |
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| The Issue | |
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| Can Chance Explain It? | |
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| Is Natural Selection Enough? | |
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| Does Darwin Give "Design without Design"? | |
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| Man's Place in the Cosmos | |
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| The Expectations | |
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| The Anthropic Coincidences | |
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| Objections to the Idea of Anthropic Coincidences | |
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| The Objections | |
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| Answers to the Objections | |
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| Alternative Explanations of the Anthropic Coincidences | |
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| The Weak Anthropic Principle: Many Domains | |
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| The Weak Anthropic Principle: Many Universes | |
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| The Weakness of the Weak Anthropic Principle | |
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| The Problem with Too Many Universes | |
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| Why Is the Universe So Big? | |
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| How Old Must a Universe Be? | |
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| How Big Must a Universe Be? | |
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| Are We Really So Small? | |
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| What Is Man? | |
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| The Issue | |
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| The Religious View | |
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| The Materialist View | |
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| Clearing Up Some Confusions | |
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| Determinism and Free Will | |
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| The Overthrow of Determinism | |
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| Quantum Theory and Free Will | |
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| Is Free Will Real? | |
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| Can Matter "Understand"? | |
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| Abstract Understanding | |
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| What are Abstract Ideas? | |
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| Truth | |
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| If Not the Brain, Then What and How? | |
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| Is the Human Mind Just a Computer? | |
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| What a Computer Does | |
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| What Godel Showed | |
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| The Arguments of Lucas and Penrose | |
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| Avenues of Escape | |
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| What Does the Human Mind Have That Computers Lack? | |
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| Can One Have a Simple Idea? | |
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| Is the Materialist View of the Mind Scientific? | |
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| Quantum Theory and the Mind | |
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| The London-Bauer Argument in Brief | |
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| Going into More Detail | |
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| Is the Traditional Interpretation Absurd? | |
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| Alternatives to Traditional Quantum Theory | |
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| Modifying Quantum Theory | |
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| Reinterpreting Quantum Theory: The "Many-Worlds" Idea | |
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| Is a Pattern Emerging? | |
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| Appendices | |
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| God, Time, and Creation | |
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| Attempts to Explain the Beginning Scientifically | |
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| Godel's Theorem | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |