
The God Dialogues A Philosophical Journey
by Alter, Torin; Howell, Robert J.Buy New
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Summary
Author Biography
Table of Contents
Preface | p. VIII |
Acknowledgments | p. IX |
Outside Boston: God, Value, and Meaning | p. 1 |
Searching for Meaning | |
Atheism, Agnosticism, and Theism | |
The Argument from Morality | |
The Euthyphro Question | |
Limits on God's Power | |
Good as Part of the Divine Nature | |
Angels, Devils, and Knowing Which is Which | |
The Meaning of What? | |
Niagara, New York: Design and Evolution | p. 17 |
The Grandeur of the Falls | |
Paley's Argument from Analogy | |
The Argument from Design | |
Creation vs. Chance | |
Creation vs. Evolution | |
Natural Selection and Chance | |
The Support for Evolution | |
The Challenge of Irreducible Complexity | |
Assessing Probabilities | |
The Panda's Thumb | |
From Niagara to Chicago: Life and Fine-Tuning | p. 37 |
The Argument from Life | |
Arguing from Ignorance | |
Scientific Progress on the Origins of Life | |
The Argument from Consciousness | |
The Probability of Life's Emergence | |
The Limits of Science | |
The Fine-Tuning Argument | |
Selection Bias | |
The Multiple-Universes Hypothesis | |
The Belief in Our Own Specialness | |
The Problem of Prior Probabilities | |
A Finely-Tuned God | |
Chicago, Illinois, outside the Adler Planetarium: The Cosmological Argument | p. 59 |
The Provocative Planetarium | |
The Cosmological Argument, First Pass | |
The Big Bang | |
A Contradiction in the Premises | |
Another Pass | |
The Principle of Sufficient Reason | |
Quantum Indeterminacy | |
Infinite Pasts and Infinite Beings | |
The Double Standard | |
The Argument from Contingency | |
Divine Freedom | |
More Double Standards | |
The Burden of Proof and the Missing Keys | |
Chicago, Illinois, in the Hotel: The Ontological Argument | p. 77 |
The Ontological Argument | |
Anselm and the Fool | |
Places of the Mind | |
God and the Representation of God | |
Dreaming of Elvis | |
Gaunilo's Perfect Island | |
Kant's Diagnosis | |
Possible Worlds and the Necessity of God | |
The Impossibility of God | |
Imagination and Possibility | |
Somewhere in Iowa: Religious Experience, Testimony, and Miracles | p. 97 |
The Ghost of Shoeless Joe | |
Testimony and Miracles | |
The Bible as Authority | |
Other Authorities | |
Religious Experience | |
Experience and Evidence | |
The Psychology of Religious Experience | |
Explaining Experience | |
Hume on Miracles | |
Holcomb, Kansas: The Problem of Evil | p. 119 |
Murder, from Kansas to Kitty Genovese | |
The Problem of Evil | |
Omniomniomni | |
The Free Will Response | |
Circumventing Freedom | |
The Problem of Natural Disasters | |
Dark Clouds and Silver Linings | |
The Dependence of Good on Evil | |
The World as a Moral Proving Ground | |
Evil in the Big Picture | |
The Ship, The Captain, and the Grounds of Reasonable Belief | |
Las Vegas, Nevada: Pascal's Wager | p. 143 |
Pascal's Wager | |
Prudential vs. Evidential Reasons | |
The Possibility and Legitimacy of Prudential Belief | |
Dominance and the Case for Gun Ownership | |
The Many-Gods Objection | |
California: Faith and the Rationality of Belief in God | p. 155 |
The Weight of Combined Arguments | |
Kierkegaard and Heroic Leaps of Faith | |
The Dangers of Faith | |
Alternative Conceptions of God | |
Religion as Metaphor | |
The Dangers of Metaphor | |
Faith and Moral Disagreement | |
The Golden Gate | |
Reading Suggestions | p. 173 |
Sources of Quotations | p. 179 |
Index | p. 180 |
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