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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 | |