The Existence of God Book

	Acknowledgements
	Series Preface
	Introduction
	Atheological Arguments and the Nature of God
1	The Logic of Omnipotence	5
2	Eternity	7
3	The Facts	37
	The Problem of Evil
4	Freedom and the Free Will Defense	63
5	Middle Knowledge and the Problem of Evil	91
6	Must God Create the Best?	101
7	Does Theism Need a Theodicy?	117
8	The Many-Universes Solution to the Problem of Evil	143
9	Probabilistic Arguments from Evil	161
10	The "Inductive" Argument from Evil: A Dialogue	177
11	Suffering, Soul-Making, and Salvation	205
12	The Inductive Argument from Evil and the Human Cognitive Condition	223
	The Atheological Argument from Hartle-Hawking Cosmology
13	Stephen Hawking's Cosmology and Theism	265
	Ontological Arguments
14	Anselm and Actuality	277
15	Ontological Arguments	293
	Cosmological Arguments
16	Defense of the Kalam Cosmological Argument	317
17	Theological misinterpretations of Current Physical Cosmology	327
18	The Hume-Edwards Principle and the Cosmological Argument	347
19	A New Cosmological Argument	365
20	Prospects for a Sound Stage 3 of Cosmological Arguments	381
	Teleological Arguments
21	Some Reflections on Richard Swinburne's Argument from Design	391
22	The Prerequisites of Life in Our Universe	403
	Arguments Involving Religious Experience and Practice
23	The Perception of God	429
24	The Fulfillment of Promises as Evidence for Religious Belief	459
25	The Prospects for Natural Theology	485
26	In Search of the Foundations of Theism	515
27	Faith, Doubt and Hope or Does Faith Entail Belief?	535
28	The Groundlessness of Belief	551
	Name Index	567