A Natural History of Natural Theology

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
1 Natural Theology and Natural History......Page 20
2 The Naturalness of Religious Beliefs......Page 38
3 Intuitions about God's Knowledge: Anthropomorphism or Preparedness?......Page 60
4 Teleology, the Design Stance, and the Argument from Design......Page 80
5 The Cosmological Argument and Intuitions about Causality and Agency......Page 104
6 The Moral Argument in the Light of Evolutionary Ethics......Page 128
7 The Argument from Beauty and the Evolutionary Basis of Aesthetic Experience......Page 150
8 The Argument from Miracles and the Cognitive Science of Religious Testimony......Page 174
9 The Natural History of Religion and the Rationality of Religious Beliefs......Page 198
Notes......Page 220
References......Page 226
Index......Page 260