Contents
Part I: The Future of Christianity
Chapter One: The Twilight of Atheism: The Global Triumph of Christianity 3
Chapter Two: Survival of the Sacred: Why Religion is Winning 15
Chapter Three: God is Not Great: The Atheist Assaults on Religion 23
Chapter Four: Miseducating the Young: Saving Children from Their Parents 33
Part II: Christianity and the West
Chapter Five: Render unto Caesar: The Spiritual Basis of Limited Government 43
Chapter Six: The Evil That I Would Not: Christianity and Human Fallibility 57
Chapter Seven: Created Equal: The Origin of Human Dignity 69
Part III: Christianity and Science
Chapter Eight: Christinaity and Reason: The Theological Roots of Science 85
Chapter Nine: From Logos to Cosmos: Christianity and the Invention of Invention 93
Chapter Ten: An Atheist Fable: Reopening the Galileo Case 103
Part IV: The Argument from Design
Chapter Eleven: Auniverse with a Beginning: God and the Astronomers 117
Chapter Twelve: A Designer Planet: Man's Special Place in Creation 131
Chapter Thirteen: Paley Was Right: Evolution and the Argument from Design 143
Chapter Fourteen: The Genesis Prolem: The Methodological Atheism of Science 159
Part V: Christianity and Philosophy
Chapter Fifteen: The World Beyond Our Senses: Kant and the Limits of Reason 171
Chapter Sixteen: In the Belly of the Whale: Why Miracales Are Possible 183
Chapter Seventeen: A Skeptic's Wager: Pascal and the Reasonableness of Faith 195
Part VI: Christianity and Suffering
Chapter Eighteen: Rethinking the Inquisition: The Exaggerated Crimes of Religion 207
Chapter Nineteen: A License to Kill: Atheism and the Mass Murders of History 217
Part VII: Christianity and Morality
Chapter Twenty: Natural Law and Divine Law: The Objecttive Foundations of Morality 229
Chapter Twenty-One: The Ghost in the Machine: Why Man is More Than Master 243
Chapter Twenty-Two: The Imperial "I": When the Self Becomes the Arbiter of Morality 255
Chapter Twenty-Three: Opiate of the Morally Corrupt: Why Unbelief Is So Appealling 265
Chapter Twenty-Four: The Problem of Evil: Where Is Atheism When Bad Things Happen? 277
Part VIII: Christianity and You
Chapter Twenty-Five: Jesus among Other Gods: The Uniqueness of Christianity 200
Chapter Twenty-Six: A Foretaste of Eternity: How Christianity Can Change Your Life 297
Acknowledgments 309
Notes 311
Index 333