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| Introduction | |
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| Questions About Logic | |
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| What are first principles? | |
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| Why begin with logic? | |
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| What is the first principle of logic? | |
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| Is the law of noncontradiction unavoidable? | |
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| What if all is nothing but an illusion? | |
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| What if logic doesn't apply to reality? | |
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| What about the use of Eastern logic? | |
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| Can the laws of logic be used as a test for truth? | |
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| Questions About Truth | |
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| What is truth? | |
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| Is truth relative? | |
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| Is absolute truth intolerant? | |
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| What is pluralism? | |
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| Should pluralism be embraced in academics? | |
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| Agnosticism: What is that? | |
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| Do relativism and pluralism make sense? | |
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| Are agnosticism, relativism, and pluralism true? | |
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| Is it credible to hold to absolute truth? | |
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| How can we know the truth about reality? | |
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| Questions About Worldviews | |
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| What is a worldview? | |
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| Why are worldviews important? | |
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| How many worldviews are there? | |
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| How do worldviews differ? | |
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| What do atheists believe? | |
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| What do pantheists believe? | |
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| What do theists believe? | |
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| What is worldview confusion? | |
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| Why are questions so important? | |
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| How can we handle worldview questions? | |
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| How can we ask the right kinds of questions? | |
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| Questions About Science | |
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| Is science a matter of faith? | |
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| What is the principle of causality? | |
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| Is the causality principle reliable? | |
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| Does quantum physics disprove causality? | |
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| Does causality apply to God? | |
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| Is God a self-caused Being? | |
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| Can science determine past causes? | |
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| Can origin science affirm the existence of God? | |
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| Does appealing to a Creator nullify the scientific method? | |
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| Questions About the Cosmos | |
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| Does the cosmos need a cause? | |
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| What's the difference between cosmology and cosmogony? | |
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| What is the foremost law of science? | |
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| Is the cosmos running out of usable energy? | |
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| Can scientists evade the second law of thermodynamics? | |
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| What evidence supports belief in a finite universe? | |
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| Which origin model best fits the cosmological evidence? | |
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| Why did the Superforce bring the cosmos into existence? | |
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| Why couldn't the cosmos be oscillating (or pulsating)? | |
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| Why couldn't the cosmos be in an eternal steady state? | |
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| What about quantum cosmology and Stephen Hawking's model? | |
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| Questions About the Origin of Life | |
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| Which came first, mind or matter? | |
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| What are the two competing origin-of-life models? | |
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| Did Darwin understand the complex nature of the cell? | |
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| How complex is a single cell, and how does it work? | |
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| What kind of coded information does a cell utilize? | |
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| How does the DNA molecular-information system work? | |
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| What kind of information is stored in the DNA molecule? | |
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| When does nonliving matter become a living organism? | |
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| What kind of cause produces highly specified complexity? | |
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| Why can't the forces of nature account for the origin of life? | |
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| How does information theory confirm an intelligent cause? | |
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| What kind of intelligent cause designed the genetic text? | |
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| What else can we know about this super-intelligent Being? | |
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| Which worldview is true (best corresponds to reality)? | |
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| Questions About Macroevolution | |
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| What is macroevolution? | |
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| Are there variations of macroevolution? | |
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| What is the design model? | |
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| Are there variations of the design model? | |
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| How should origin models be evaluated? | |
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| Doesn't natural selection support macroevolution? | |
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| What about the fruit fly experiments? | |
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| What about the use of computer models and analogies? | |
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| What about the fossil record (paleontological evidence)? | |
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| Isn't the fossil record complete except for a few missing links? | |
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| What is the "punctuated equilibria" model, and is it valid? | |
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| Questions About Intelligent Design | |
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| What about the theistic macroevolutionary model of origins? | |
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| Which design model best matches all the scientific evidence? | |
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| Why does the progressive view best fit all the evidence? | |
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| Does the progressive view fit all the evidence? | |
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| Does the biblical age of humanity conflict with modern science? | |
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| Questions About Law | |
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| What is law? | |
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| What caused the rise of positive law theory? | |
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| Does positive law jeopardize criminal justice? | |
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| How can lawmakers pass good laws? | |
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| How does positive law theory threaten basic human rights? | |
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| How does education influence law and human rights? | |
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| Questions About Justice | |
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| Is it wrong to pass laws that deny basic human rights? | |
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| Do governments create human rights or discover them? | |
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| Are the concepts of legal theory and personal morality related? | |
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| Which worldview is true (best corresponds to reality)? | |
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| Questions About God and Evil | |
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| Why evil? | |
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| Where is God? | |
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| Who can answer? | |
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| What is evil? | |
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| Did God create evil? | |
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| Why doesn't God stop evil? | |
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| What is the purpose of evil and suffering? | |
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| Why is there so much evil and suffering? | |
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| What about floods, tornadoes, cancer, AIDS, etc.? | |
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| Can God be sovereign and still allow for human freedom? | |
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| Questions About History and Jesus | |
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| What is history? | |
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| Are miracles possible? | |
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| How can we test the reliability of ancient documents? | |
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| Does the New Testament pass the bibliographical test? | |
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| Does the New Testament pass the internal test? | |
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| Does the New Testament pass the external test? | |
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| Are the New Testament authors reliable eyewitnesses? | |
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| What can we conclude about the New Testament documents? | |
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| Questions About the Deity of Jesus Christ | |
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| Who is Jesus Christ? | |
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| Who did Jesus Christ claim to be? | |
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| What did the apostles say about Jesus Christ? | |
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| What about you--who do you say Jesus Christ is? | |
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| How can Jesus Christ be both God and man? | |
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| Is there any way to illustrate this divine mystery? | |
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| How did Jesus Christ substantiate His claim to be God? | |
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| Questions About Ethics and Morals | |
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| What are ethics and morals? | |
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| Do absolute moral laws exist? | |
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| Isn't ethics just human instincts? | |
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| Isn't ethics just a matter of evincing one's feelings? | |
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| What is Jesus' first principle of ethics? | |
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| What did Jesus say about moral goodness? | |
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| What are Jesus' observations about human nature? | |
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| What is Jesus' diagnosis of the condition of humanity? | |
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| What is Jesus' prognosis of and prescription for humanity? | |
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| Questions About True Meaning and Heaven | |
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| What gives ultimate meaning to life? | |
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| Why can't true meaning be found apart from God? | |
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| Why can't true happiness be found in this world alone? | |
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| What does the future hold for someone who accepts Jesus? | |
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| What are the temporal consequences of refusing God? | |
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| Questions About True Misery and Hell | |
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| What are the permanent consequences of refusing God? | |
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| Why do "decent" people go to hell? | |
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| Why does anyone go to hell? | |
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| First Principle Responses to Ethical Questions | |
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| What about abortion? | |
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| What about euthanasia? | |
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| What about biomedical issues? | |
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| What about human cloning? | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Indices | |