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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Nature of God | |
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| Omnipotence | |
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| God Is All Powerful | |
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| Some Puzzles Concerning Omnipotence | |
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| Box: Harry G. Frankfurt, "The Paradox of the Stone." | |
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| Omniscience | |
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| God's Knowledge | |
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| Divine Knowledge and Human Freedom | |
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| Box: Augustine, "God's Foreknowledge Does Not Rule out Free Will." | |
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| Box: Jonathan Edwards, "God's Foreknowledge Rules out Libertarian Freedom | |
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| God and Time | |
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| God Is Outside of Time, Boethius | |
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| Eternity | |
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| Box: William Lane Craig, "Time: The Familiar Stranger." | |
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| Box: William J. Wainwright, "God's Compassion." | |
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| Arguments for the Existence of God | |
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| The Ontological Argument | |
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| The Ontological Argument | |
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| Box: Rene Descartes, "It Is Impossible to Think of God as Not Existing." | |
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| Critique of the Ontological Argument | |
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| Box: William Rowe, "Anselm Begs the Question." | |
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| Box: Stephen Davis, "Existence Is a Predicate." | |
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| Anselm's Ontological Arguments | |
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| Box: Alvin Plantinga, "The Hartshorne-Malcolm Version of the Ontological Argument." | |
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| The Cosmological Argument | |
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| The Five Ways | |
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| Box: Frederick Copleston, "A Hierarchy of Causes." | |
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| The Cosmological Argument | |
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| Box: Gottfried Leibniz, "Proving God." | |
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| Box: Bertrand Russell and Frederick Copleston, "The Russell-Copleston Debate." | |
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| Criticisms of Cosmological Arguments | |
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| Box: Elliot Sober, "The Birthday Fallacy." | |
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| Box: William Rowe, "An Argument Against the Principle of Sufficient Reason." | |
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| The Kalam Cosmological Argument | |
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| Box: Paul Davies, "Is the Universe a Free Lunch? | |
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| Box: John D. Barrow and Frank J. Tipler, "The Anthropic Principle." | |
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| A Critical Examination of the Kalam Cosmological Argument | |
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| The Design Argument | |
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| The Watch and the Watchmaker | |
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| Box: Michael Denton, "Self-Duplication as Evidence of Design." | |
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| Box: Walter Bradley, "Complex Living Systems Are Evidence of Design." | |
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| Critique of the Design Argument | |
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| Box: George Smith, "Who Designed the Designer?" | |
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| Box: Robin Le Poidevin, "Evolution Explains Apparent Design." | |
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| God, Design, and Fine-Turing | |
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| Box: Richard Dawkins, "Atheism Before Darwin?" | |
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| The Moral Argument | |
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| The Moral Argument for the Existence of God | |
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| Critique of the Moral Argument | |
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| Faith and Reason | |
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| The Evidential Challenge | |
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| The Presumption of Atheism, Antony Flew | |
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| Box: Michael Scriven, "Santa Claus and the Belief in God." | |
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| A Pascalian Rejoinder to the Presumption of | |
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| Response to | |
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| It Is Wrong to Believe Without Evidence | |
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| What Should We Expect from Theistic Proofs? | |
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| Belief Without Evidence: A Defense | |
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| Pascal's Wagner, Blaise Pascal | |
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| Box: William Lycan and George Schlesinger, "You Bet Your Life." | |
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| The Will to Believe | |
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| Religious Belief Requires a Leap of Faith | |
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| Kierkegaard's Leap of Faith | |
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| Reformed Epistemology and the Rationality of Theistic Belief | |
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| Box: Alvin Plantinga, "The Aquinas/Calvin Model." | |
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| Box: Alvin Plantinga, "The Great Pumpkin Objection." | |