The Case for the Existence of God
Date: 11 April 2011, 17:18
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TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 CHAPTER 2 Cause and Effect— The Cosmological Argument . . . . . . . . 3 Is the Universe Eternal?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Steady State and Oscil- lating Universe Theories . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Did the Universe Create Itself Out of Nothing? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Was the Universe Created? . . . . . . . . . . 41 Our Fine-Tuned, Tailor-Made Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 CHAPTER 3 Design in Nature— The Teleological Argument . . . . . . . . 67 Design of the Universe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Design of the Human Body . . . . . . . . . . 77 The Body’s Cells. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 The Reproductive Methods of Cells. . 82 The Genetic Code— Its Design and Function . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Origin of the Genetic Code. . . . . . . . . 91 DNA, Genes, and Chromosomes . . . . 94 The Body’s Tissues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 The Body’s Organs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 The Skin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 The Eye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 The Ear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 The Body’s Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 The Skeletal System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 The Circulatory System. . . . . . . . . . . 119 The Nervous System . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 The Unbeliever’s Response to the Argument from Design . . . . . . . . . 143 CHAPTER 4 Morality and Ethics—the Anthropological Argument. . . . . . . . 155 Morality and Ethics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 The Practical Impact of Morals and Ethics Without God . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 Morals, Ethics, and the Existence of God. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 CHAPTER 5 Conclusion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 REFERENCES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
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