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Preface |
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Acknowledgements |
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Introduction |
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Part I The limits of theistic explanation |
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Must the universe have a cause? |
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The mysteries of existence |
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3 | (1) |
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4 | (1) |
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The temporal and modal cosmological arguments |
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Problems with the first premise |
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9 | (5) |
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14 | (1) |
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15 | (2) |
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17 | (16) |
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17 | (2) |
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19 | (5) |
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The modal ontological argument |
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24 | (3) |
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27 | (4) |
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31 | (1) |
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32 | (1) |
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Could the universe have an explanation? |
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33 | (11) |
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33 | (2) |
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Causes and causal explanations |
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35 | (3) |
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38 | (2) |
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40 | (1) |
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41 | (1) |
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42 | (2) |
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Are we the outcome of chance or design? |
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44 | (15) |
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Analogy and the teleological argument |
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44 | (2) |
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Probability and the teleological argument |
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46 | (3) |
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49 | (5) |
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The weak anthropic principle |
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54 | (3) |
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57 | (1) |
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57 | (2) |
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Does the universe have a purpose? |
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59 | (14) |
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The strong anthropic principle |
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59 | (2) |
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Teleology and causal reductionism: the selfish gene hypothesis |
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61 | (5) |
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Teleology without causal reductionism |
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66 | (2) |
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68 | (1) |
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69 | (4) |
Part II Moral arguments for atheism |
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Are God and ethics inseparable or incompatible? |
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73 | (15) |
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73 | (3) |
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Descriptive versus prescriptive morality |
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76 | (3) |
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Moral realism and moral subjectivism |
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79 | (3) |
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82 | (3) |
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85 | (1) |
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86 | (2) |
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Is there a problem of evil? |
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88 | (19) |
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Disaster, depravity, deity and design |
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88 | (3) |
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Determinism and human nature |
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91 | (4) |
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Human freedom from the divine perspective |
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95 | (4) |
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Can the theist refuse to answer the problem of evil? |
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99 | (4) |
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103 | (1) |
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104 | (3) |
Part III Religion without God |
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107 | (17) |
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Realism, positivism and instrumentalism |
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107 | (4) |
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111 | (3) |
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114 | (4) |
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Atheism and religious practice |
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118 | (4) |
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122 | (1) |
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123 | (1) |
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Is `Does God exist?'' a real question? |
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124 | (11) |
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The deflationist argument |
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124 | (4) |
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The argument applied to theism |
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128 | (2) |
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130 | (3) |
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133 | (1) |
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134 | (1) |
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Should the atheist fear death? |
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135 | (12) |
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135 | (1) |
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The river of time and the sea of ice |
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136 | (4) |
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140 | (3) |
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Immortality: real and vicarious |
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143 | (2) |
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145 | (1) |
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146 | (1) |
Glossary |
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147 | (5) |
Bibliography |
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152 | (3) |
Index |
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