Introduction | p. 11 |
The Question of Philosophy | |
The Cosmological Argument | p. 15 |
The Moral Argument for God's Existence | p. 20 |
Near Death Experiences: Evidence for an Afterlife? | p. 24 |
Naturalism: A Worldview | p. 28 |
Suffering for What? | p. 32 |
Responding to the Argument from Evil: Three Approaches for the Theist | p. 36 |
God, Suffering, and Santa Claus: An Examination of the Explanatory Power of Theism and Atheism | p. 43 |
The Question of Science | |
Creator and Sustainer: God's Essential Role in the Universe | p. 51 |
The Pale Blue Dot Revisited | p. 55 |
Oxygen, Water, and Light, Oh My! The Toxicity of Life's Basic Necessities | p. 59 |
The Origin of Life | p. 64 |
What Every High School Student Should Know about Science | p. 68 |
Darwin's Battleship: Status Report on the Leaks This Ship Has Sprung | p. 73 |
Debunking the Scopes "Monkey Trial" Stereotype | p. 76 |
How Darwinism Dumbs Us Down: Evolution and Postmodernism | p. 81 |
Limits to Evolvability | p. 86 |
Evolutionary Computation: A Perpetual Motion Machine for Design Information? | p. 91 |
Science, Eugenics, and Bioethics | p. 97 |
Designed for Discovery | p. 101 |
Intelligent Design: A Brief Introduction | p. 104 |
Intelligent, Optimal, and Divine Design | p. 108 |
Molecular Biology's New Paradigm: Nanoengineering Inside the Cell | p. 111 |
Panning God: Darwinism's Defective Argument against Bad Design | p. 115 |
The Role of Agency in Science | p. 120 |
The Scientific Status of Design Inferences | p. 125 |
The Vise Strategy: Squeezing the Truth Out of Darwinists | p. 131 |
The Question of Jesus | |
Did Jesus Really Exist? | p. 143 |
The Credibility of Jesus's Miracles | p. 147 |
The Son of Man | p. 151 |
The Son of God | p. 154 |
Jesus as God | p. 157 |
Did Jesus Predict His Violent Death and Resurrection? | p. 160 |
Can we be Certain that Jesus Died on a Cross? A Look at the Ancient Practice of Crucifixion | p. 164 |
The Empty Tomb of Jesus | p. 168 |
The Resurrection Appearances of Jesus | p. 172 |
Were the Resurrection Appearances of Jesus Hallucinations? | p. 176 |
The Trinity | p. 179 |
Is Jesus Superior to All Other Religious Leaders? | p. 184 |
Is Jesus the Only Way? | p. 190 |
What About Those Who have Never Heard the Gospel? | p. 196 |
Did Paul Invent Christianity? | p. 200 |
The Question of the Bible | |
Is the Bible Today What was Originally Written? | p. 207 |
Inerrancy and the Text of the new Testament: Assessing the Logic of the Agnostic View | p. 211 |
Why all the Translations? | p. 220 |
Archaeology and the Bible: How Archaeological Findings Have Enhanced the Credibility of the Bible | p. 224 |
The Historical Reliability of the Gospels | p. 229 |
The New Testament Canon | p. 234 |
What Should We Think About the Coptic Gospel of Thomas? | p. 238 |
What Should We Think About the Gospel of Peter? | p. 242 |
What Should We Think About the Gospel of Judas? | p. 247 |
Notes | p. 253 |
Contributors | p. 263 |
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