Acknowledgements Preface PART 1. PRELIMINARIES Chapter 1: Why Not Agnosticism? Proving Non-Existence The Burden of Proof Fallibilism The Common Sense View Is Atheism Itself a Metaphysical Belief? Summary Chapter 2: Which God Are You Denying? Kidneys and Hearts What Is God? Magenta and Pink Tolerable Misdescriptions Life Force The Argument from Experience Our Natural Being The Point Chapter 3: Religion without God? Religious Atheism Spirit The Backdoor God Conclusion Chapter 4: Metaphor and Sacred Texts Inconsistencies Improbabilities Ignored Dictums Partial Literalism Metaphorical Reading Ricoeur and Company PART II. "PROOFS" Chapter 5: Ontologic Illogic A Priori and A Posteriori Arguments The Ontological Argument Null Sets and Hypotheticals Barretteless and Imaginary Dolls Necessary Existence Summary Chapter 6: Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? The Cosmological Argument Inconsistency Infinity The Kalam Argument Necessary Beings Best Explanation Conclusion Chapter 7: Design or Evolution? The Design Argument The Appeal The Evolutionary Account Chance and Fruit Flies Intelligent Design? Chapter 8: Fine Tuning and Analogy The Design Argument (Again) Fine Tuning and Biogenesis Analogical Argument Structure Watches and Astrolabes Summary Chapter 9: The Moral Argument Aquinas''s Version Kant''s Version Summary PART III: ATTRIBUTES Chapter 10: The Problem of Suffering Inscrutability Free Will Eschatological Recompense Moral Fortitude Summary Chapter 11: Omnipotence The Paradox of the Stone No Impossible Powers Two Impossible Acts Are Easier Than One Mortal Comprehension Chapter 12: Omniscience and Free Will The Basic Problem Weakening Knowledge Out of Time Different Necessities Other Worlds Summary Chapter 13: Time and Immutability Problems with Immutability Anthropomorphizing Time Revisited Summary Chapter 14: Is God Love? Different Kinds of Love PART IV. FAITH Chapter 15: Faith and Reason God Is Special Secular Faiths Conclusion Chapter 16: Fideism Kierkegaardian Fideism Wittgensteinian Fideism Chapter 17: Ultimate Concern Ontological, Not Cosmological Three Ambiguities The Problem Chapter 18: Po-Mo Theo A Monkey in a Box? Summary Chapter 19: Pascal''s Wager Two Problems Defending Pascal Chapter 20: Non-Falsifiability Flew''s Garden Not Logical Positivism Falsification and Verification Objections Replies Summary PART V. IMPLICATIONS Chapter 21: Mysticism Common Components Content Method Self-Confirming Judging by the Effects Conclusion Chapter 22: God and Morality Moral Principles The Euthyphro Argument Innate Morality? Sin and Moral Intuition Strategic Interaction Conclusion Chapter 23: The Meaning of Life The Problem of Nihilism Reductio Ad Absurdum The Argument from Consistency The Non Sequitur Death Rephrasing the Question Chapter 24: Death Platonic Arguments Ghosts in the Machine Brain Damage Near-Death Experiences The Identity Argument Summary Chapter 25: Error Theory Religion''s Success Psychological and Sociological Accounts The Evolution of Belief Conclusion? Notes Bibliography Author Index.