Index
Index
Note: Page numbers refer to print edition, ISBN 978-0-8308-3726-7.
agent causation, 17
Alper, Matthew, 101
Barrett, Justin, 104
Barton, John, 136-37
Bering, Jesse, 101-2
big bang, 15-20, 23, 25, 36, 67, 68, 117
binary oppositions, 129-31
Birch, Bruce, 138-39
Bishop, John, 40
Blake, William, 171
bright movement, 130-31
Buddha, 213
Calvin, John, 33, 92, 104
Chesterton, G. K., 189, 201, 224
Childs, Brevard, 137
Cicero, 92-93
common descent. See evolution, common descent
cosmological argument, 14-18
Crick, Francis, 82
Crossan, John Dominic, 203
Darwin, Charles, 8, 46, 75, 80-81, 83-86
Davies, P. C. W. (Paul), 15, 153
Dawkins, Richard
arguments for God’s existence, 13-30
God as evil, 134-53, 179-81
hell, 156-59
morality, 109-17
religion as evil, 120-32
scientific accounts of religious belief, 92, 96, 99-102
selfish gene theory, 112-17
Democritus, 79
Dennett, Daniel, 43, 92, 96, 111-12, 130-31, 135, 152, 181-83
design argument. See teleological argument
Dirac, Paul, 67
divine hiddenness. See God, knowledge of
divine revelation. See revelation, divine
Dodd, C. H., 206-8
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 126-27
Draper, Paul, 108
D’Souza, Dinesh, 224
Dunn, James D. G., 212
Eagleton, Terry, 120
Einstein, Albert, 66
Enlightenment, 122
Epicurus, 93, 107
evil
Old Testament laws, 134-53
problem of, 107-9
religion as, 119-32
evolution
common descent, 84-85
explanations of religion, 91-104
God and, 74-89, 91-104
memes, 99-101
natural selection, 85
random mutation, 84-89
Ewing, A. C., 41-42
Faraday, Michael, 72
Feinberg, Joel, 45-46
fine-tuning of the universe, 67-72. See also teleological argument
Flew, Antony, 34
folk beliefs, 94
free will, 17, 37, 39-40, 162, 177
God
arguments for, 13-30
evidence of a morally perfect, 49-62
evil, 124-28
image of, 32-47
knowledge of, 49-62
love of, 52-62
maximal greatness, 28-30
morality, 44-47, 107, 109-17, 126, 136, 142, 159, 224
physics, 65-77
Trinity, 160-62
See also evil, Old Testament laws; evil, problem of; evolution, God and; hell; quantum physics; revelation, divine
Goldingay, John, 136, 139
Goulder, Michael, 212
Guyon, Madame, 171
Haeckel, Ernst, 81
Harris, Sam, 107-11, 115, 120, 123, 135, 153
Harvey, William, 79
Hawking, Stephen, 23-25
hell, 155-66
Hitchens, Christopher, 109-10, 120, 135, 138, 141, 185, 212-13
Hull, David, 46
Hume, David, 155-56, 175, 177-78, 183-86
Huxley, Thomas, 81
Hypothetico-Deductive Method, 32
image of God. See God, image of
intelligent design, 20, 89
James, William, 109
Jastrow, Robert, 223
Jesus
activist, 192
charisma of, 196
compassion, 198-9
confidence of, 189-90
crucifixion, 203-5
divine hiddenness, 58
faith in, 217-27
freedom, 187-89
hypocrisy, 194-95
importance of faith in, 222-27
as a Jew, 199-201
Messiah, 187-201
Mosaic laws, 148, 151
obedience, 161
and Paul, 206
reasons for trust in, 218-22
resurrection, 202-15
revelation, 171-72
rhetoric, 192-94
as Savior, 169
Sermon on the Mount, 53
source of opposition, 190-92
spirituality of, 196-98
violence, 125-26, 144
Johnson, Paul, 142-43
Kant, Immanuel, 28-30
kardiatheology, 52-53, 59
Kim, Jaegwon, 43
Kingsley, Charles, 75
Krishna, 213
Kuhse, Helga, 45
Lewis, C. S., 160-66, 223
Lüdemann, Gerd, 212
Mackie, J. L., 44
Marty, Martin, 123
Marvin, Carolyn, 122
materialism, 65-67
maximal greatness. See God, maximal greatness
Maxwell, James Clerk, 72
memes. See evolution, memes
Messiah. See Jesus, Messiah
Midgely, Mary, 122
moral argument, 18-19
Morris, Tom, 156
Mosaic law, 137-52
multiverse, 70-72
Nagel, Thomas, 41
natural selection. See evolution, natural selection
naturalist ontology, 37
Newton, Isaac, 66
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 157-59
Ockham’s Razor, 16, 22
Old Testament laws. See evil, Old Testament laws
ontological argument, 28-30
Pannenberg, Wolfhart, 214
Pape, Robert, 124
Parry, Robin, 151
Paul the apostle
“authentic” epistles, 203-5
creedal tradition, 211-12, 214-15
flaws of biblical characters, 138
God’s forbearance, 149
Jesus’ deity, 220
man’s wisdom, 223
morality, 110
religious zeal, 226-27
slavery, 140-41
trips to Jerusalem, 206-10
Penrose, Roger, 23-26
Persinger, Michael, 101
Piaget, Jean, 94
Plantinga, Alvin, 28-30
Popescu, Alexandru, 128
quantum physics, 69-77
Rachels, James, 46-47
random mutation. See evolution, random mutation
rationality, 41-42
Reese, Sir Martin, 21
religion. See evil, religion as
Reppert, Victor, 41
resurrection. See Jesus, resurrection
revelation, divine
belief in, 172-78
disclosure, 170-72
recognizing, 178-83
values at stake, 183-86
Ruse, Michael, 44, 115-16
Sagan, Carl, 43-44
Schroedinger equation, 75-76
scientific naturalism
evidence against, 37-47
nature of, 34-37
scientism, 35-36
Searle, John, 34-40
selfish gene theory, 112-17
Shermer, Michael, 131
Silk, Joseph, 24
Singer, Peter, 45
singularity, 15, 23
super-string theory, 21
Swinburne, Richard, 28
Talbott, Tom, 164
teleological argument, 19-28, 89
Teresa of Ávila, 171
Theory of Everything, 21
Underhill, Evelyn, 171
Varghese, Roy Abraham, 34
Vilenkin, Alexander, 16
Ward, Keith, 28
Watson, James, 82
Wentz, Richard, 122
Wesley, John, 159-63
Wigner, Eugene, 67
Wilson, Edward, 115-16
World Ensemble, 21-28
worldview, 123-24
Wright, Christopher, 150
x-ray crystallography, 82