Case Files: The Expert Witness
Case Files
THE EXPERT WITNESSES
Most criminal cases are built on the knowledgeable testimony of expert witnesses (trained specialists who testify about specific, detailed attributes of evidence). This book was written in an attempt to introduce you to some of these important witnesses. The following experts are available for further consultation as you continue to examine the evidence in God’s Crime Scene:
CHAPTER ONE
IN THE BEGINNING: WAS THE UNIVERSE AN INSIDE JOB?
Experts making the case from “inside the room”:
Many Worlds in One: The Search for Other Universes (Hill and Wang, 2006)
Stephen William Hawking
The Universe in a Nutshell (Bantam, 2001)
Lawrence M. Krauss
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing (Atria Books, 2013)
Experts making the case from “outside the room”:
William Lane Craig, with Quentin Smith and Paul Copan
Theism, Atheism, and Big Bang Cosmology (Oxford University Press, 1995)
Time and Eternity: Exploring God’s Relationship to Time (Crossway, 2001)
Creation Out of Nothing: A Biblical, Philosophical, and Scientific Exploration (Baker Academic, 2004)
John Leslie and Robert Lawrence Kuhn (editors)
The Mystery of Existence: Why Is There Anything at All? (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)
Robert John Russell (editor)
Physics, Philosophy, and Theology: A Common Quest for Understanding (University of Notre Dame Press, 1989)
CHAPTER TWO
TAMPERING WITH THE EVIDENCE: WHO IS RESPONSIBLE?
Experts making the case from “inside the room”:
The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design (Back Bay Books, 2006)
The Goldilocks Enigma: Why Is the Universe Just Right for Life? (Mariner Books, 2008)
Victor Stenger
The Fallacy of Fine-Tuning: Why the Universe Is Not Designed for Us (Prometheus Books, 2011)
Experts making the case from “outside the room”:
Neil A. Manson (Editor)
God and Design: The Teleological Argument and Modern Science (Routledge, 2003)
Alister E. McGrath
A Fine-Tuned Universe: The Quest for God in Science and Theology (Westminster John Knox Press, 2009)
The Creator and the Cosmos (NavPress, 2001)
CHAPTER THREE
THE ORIGIN OF LIFE: DOES THE TEXT REQUIRE AN AUTHOR?
Experts making the case from “inside the room”:
Paul Davies
The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life (Simon & Schuster, 1999)
Paul F. Lurquin
The Origins of Life and the Universe (Columbia University Press, 2003)
Pekka Teerikorpi, Mauri Valtonen, Kirsi Lehto, Harry Lehto, Gene Byrd, and Arthur Chernin
The Evolving Universe and the Origin of Life: The Search for Our Cosmic Roots (Springer, 2008)
Experts making the case from “outside the room”:
Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design (HarperOne, 2009)
Werner Gitt, Bob Compton, and Jorge Fernandez
Without Excuse (Creation Book Publishers, 2011)
Edgar Andrews
Who Made God? Searching for a Theory of Everything (Evangelical Press, 2012)
CHAPTER FOUR
SIGNS OF DESIGN: IS THERE EVIDENCE OF AN ARTIST?
Experts making the case from “inside the room”:
Richard Dawkins
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design (W. W. Norton, 1996)
Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics: Philosophical, Theological, and Scientific Perspectives (MIT Press, 2001)
Michael Shermer
Why Darwin Matters: The Case against Intelligent Design (Holt, 2007)
Experts making the case from “outside the room”:
Michael J. Behe
Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution (Free Press, 2006)
The Design Inference: Eliminating Chance through Small Probabilities (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
Fazale Rana
The Cell’s Design: How Chemistry Reveals the Creator’s Artistry (Baker Books, 2008)
CHAPTER FIVE
OUR EXPERIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS: ARE WE MORE THAN MATTER?
Experts making the case from “inside the room”:
Matter and Consciousness (MIT Press, 2013)
David J. Chalmers
The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory (Oxford University Press, 1997)
Thomas Nagel
Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist, Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False (Oxford University Press, 2012)
Experts making the case from “outside the room”:
Edward Feser
Philosophy of Mind (Oneworld, 2005)
Consciousness and the Existence of God: A Theistic Argument (Routledge, 2008)
Joel B. Green and Stuart L. Palmer (editors)
In Search of the Soul: Four Views of the Mind-Body Problem (InterVarsity, 2005)
CHAPTER SIX
FREE WILL OR FULL WIRING: ARE REAL CHOICES EVEN POSSIBLE?
Experts making the case from “inside the room”:
John Martin Fischer, Robert Kane, Derk Pereboom, and Manuel Vargas
Four Views on Free Will (Blackwell, 2007)
Michael S. Gazzaniga
Who’s in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain (HarperCollins, 2011)
Free Will (Free Press, 2012)
Experts making the case from “outside the room”:
Richard Swinburne
Mind, Brain, and Free Will (Oxford University Press, 2013)
Saint Augustine of Hippo
On Free Choice of the Will (Hackett, 1993)
Human Freedom and the Self (Lindley Lecture) (University of Kansas Department of Philosophy, 1964)
“Human Freedom and the Self” in Free Will (ed. Robert Kane; Blackwell, 2002)
CHAPTER SEVEN
LAW AND ORDER: IS MORALITY MORE THAN AN OPINION?
Experts making the case from “inside the room”:
Christopher Boehm
Moral Origins: The Evolution of Virtue, Altruism, and Shame (Basic Books, 2012)
Dennis L. Krebs
The Origins of Morality: An Evolutionary Account (Oxford University Press, 2011)
Sam Harris
The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values (Free Press, 2010)
Experts making the case from “outside the room”:
David Baggett and Jerry L. Walls
Good God: The Theistic Foundations of Morality (Oxford University Press, 2011)
John E. Hare
God and Morality: A Philosophical History (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)
Keith Ward
Morality, Autonomy, and God (Oneworld, 2013)
CHAPTER EIGHT
THE EVIDENCE OF EVIL: CAN GOD AND EVIL COEXIST?
Experts arguing against a suspect “outside the room”:
God’s Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question—Why We Suffer (HarperCollins, 2009)
Theodore M. Drange
Nonbelief and Evil: Two Arguments for the Nonexistence of God (Prometheus Books, 1998)
Daniel Howard-Snyder (editor)
The Evidential Problem from Evil (Indiana University Press, 1996)
Experts arguing for a suspect “outside the room”:
The Problem of Pain (HarperOne, 2001)
N. T. Wright
Evil and the Justice of God (InterVarsity, 2006)
Peter van Inwagen
The Problem of Evil (Oxford University Press, 2008)