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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Contemporary Theistic Scene | |
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| Why are These Proofs New? A Brief History of the Five Approaches | |
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| The Rest of the Book | |
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| Indications of Creation and Supernatural Design in Contemporary Big Bang Cosmology | |
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| Introduction to Part One | |
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| Indications of Creation in Big Bang Cosmology | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Big Bang Theory | |
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| Can Science Indicate Creation? | |
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| Arguments for a Beginning of the Universe in Big Bang Cosmology | |
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| The Second Law of Thermodynamics | |
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| Why a Bouncing Universe Cannot Have Been Bouncing Forever | |
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| Space-Time Geometry Arguments for a Beginning of Time | |
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| Quantum Cosmology | |
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| The Borde-Vilenkin-Guth Theorem's Boundary to Past Time | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Metaphysical Implications | |
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| Indications of Supernatural Design in Contemporary Big Bang Cosmology | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Universal Constants | |
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| Constants of Space and Time | |
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| Energy Constants | |
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| Individuating Constants | |
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| Large-Scale and Fine-Structure Constants | |
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| The Extreme Improbability of Our Anthropic Universe | |
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| Many Universes or Supernatural Design? | |
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| Conclusion to Part One | |
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| Inflationary Cosmology and the String Multiverse | |
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| Introduction | |
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| All Inflationary Cosmologies Must Have a Beginning and a Transcendent Cause | |
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| String Cosmologies Entail a Beginning and a Transcendent Cause | |
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| A Primer on String Theory | |
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| Steinhardt-Turok Cyclic Ekpyrotic Universes Require a Beginning and a Transcendent Cause | |
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| Gasperini-Veneziano Pre-Big-Bang Scenarios Require a Beginning and a Transcendent Cause | |
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| Deflationary Intermezzo for Strings | |
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| A Preliminary Assessment of Inflationary Cosmology | |
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| All Inflationary and Non-Inflationary Cosmologies Appear to Require a Beginning and Transcendent Cause | |
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| Inflation and Cosmological Fine-Tuning | |
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| Fine-Tuning and String Cosmology | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Three Philosophical Proofs for the Existence of God | |
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| Methodological Presuppositions of Philosophical Proof: Reasonable and Responsible Belief | |
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| A Metaphysical Argument for God's Existence | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Proof of the Existence of at Least one Unconditioned Reality | |
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| Complete Disjunction Elucidating the Whole Range of Possibilities for All Reality | |
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| Definitions | |
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| Consequences of the Complete Disjunction | |
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| Proof That "Hypothesis F" Must Be False for Any Conditioned Reality | |
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| Proof That "Hypothesis | |