Table of Contents
Notes to Contributors.
Preface.
Part I: Attacks on Religious Belief:.
1. Is Evil Evidence against Belief in God?.
Evil Is Evidence against Theistic Belief: William L. Rowe (Purdue University).
Evil Does Not Make Atheism More Reasonable than Theism: Daniel Howard-Snyder (Western Washington University) and Michael Bergmann (Purdue University).
Reply to Howard-Snyder and Bergmann.
Reply to Rowe.
2. Does Divine Hiddenness Justify Atheism?.
Divine Hiddenness Justifies Atheism: J. L. Schellenberg (Mount Saint Vincent University).
Divine Hiddenness Does Not Justify Atheism: Paul K. Moser (Loyola University, Chicago).
Reply to Moser.
Reply to Schellenberg.
3. Does Science Discredit Religion?.
Science Discredits Religion: John Worrall (London School of Economics).
The Demise of Religion: Greatly Exaggerated Reports from the Science/Religion Wars: Del Ratzsch (Calvin College).
Reply to Ratzsch.
Replay to Worrall.
Part II: Arguments for Religious Belief:.
4. Is God’s Existence the Best Explanation of the Universe?.
Explanation and the Cosmological Argument: Bruce R. Reichenbach (Augsburg College).
Why Traditional Cosmological Arguments Don’t Work, and a Sketch of a New One that Does: Richard Gale (University of Pittsburgh).
Reply to Gale.
Reply to Reichenbach.
5. Does Religious Experience Justify Religious Belief?.
Religious Experience Justifies Religious Belief: William P. Alston (Syracuse University).
Do Mystics See God?: Evan Fales (University of Iowa).
Reply to Fales.
Reply to Alston.
6. Is It Rational for Christians to Believe in the Resurrection?.
It Is Rational to Believe in the Resurrection: Stephen T. Davis (Claremont McKenna College).
It Is Not Rational to Believer in the Resurrection: Michael Martin (Boston University).
Reply to Martin.
Reply to Davis.
Part III: Issues within Religion:.
7. Can Only One Religion Be True?.
How to Sink in Cognitive Quicksand: Nuancing Religious Pluralism: Keith E. Yandell (University of Wisconsin).
It Is Not Reasonable to Believer that Only One Religion is True: Peter Byrne (King’s College, University of London).
Reply to Byrne.
Reply to Yandell.
8. Does God Take Risks in Governing the World?.
God Takes Risks: William Hasker (Huntington College).
God Does Not Take Risks: Paul Helm (Regent College).
Reply to Helm.
Reply to Hasker.
9. Does God Respond to Petitionary Prayer?.
God Responds to Prayer: Michael J. Murray (Franklin and Marshall College).
God Does Not Necessarily Respond to Prayer: David Basinger (Roberts Wesleyan College).
Reply to Basinger.
Reply to Murray.
10. Is Eternal Damnation Compatible with the Christian Concept of God?.
Eternal Hell and the Christian Concept of God: Jerry Walls (Asbury Theological Seminary).
No Hell: Thomas Talbott (Willamette University).
Reply to Talbott.
Reply to Walls.
11. Is Morality Based on God’s Commands?.
Divine Commands Are the Foundation of Morality: Janine Marie Idziak (Loras College).
Ethics Is Based on Natural Law: Craig A. Boyd (Greenville College) and Raymond J. VanArragon (Asbury College).
Reply to Boyd and VanArragon.
Reply to Idziak.
12. Should a Christian Be a Mind–Body Dualist?.
Christians Should Affirm Mind–Body Dualism: Dean W. Zimmerman (Rutgers University).
Christians Should Reject Mind–Body Dualism: Lynne Rudder Baker (University of Massachusetts).
Reply to Baker.
Reply to Zimmerman.
Index