An Agnostic Defends God: How Science and Philosophy Support Agnosticism

Acknowledgments
About This Book
Contents
About the Author
Chapter 1: Introduction: A Peculiar Defense of God
Part I: The Rationality and Irrationality of Religious Belief
	Chapter 2: Rational Belief in God
		Factor F1: Testimony
		Factor F2: Plausible Religious Arguments
		Factor F3: Extraordinary Experiences
		Factor F4: Ignorance of Challenges
		Factor F5: Defensive Testimony
	Chapter 3: Irrational Belief in God
		Charge C1: Irrational Sustaining Causes
		Charge C2: Flawed Amateur Arguments
		Charge C3: Flawed Professional Arguments
		Charge C4: Dueling Philosophical Arguments
		Charge C5: Poorly Grounded Testimony
		Charge C6: Doubts About Spiritual Experiences
			Meditation Category
			Mind-Blowing Category
			Calm Category
			Overall Experience Category
		Charge C7: Suffering
		Charge C8: Awareness of Defects (This One Is Complicated)
		Charge C9: Lack of Preferred Evidence
		Conclusion
Part II: The Failure of Arguments for God
	Chapter 4: The Design of Life and the Laws of Nature
	Chapter 5: The Origin of the Universe
Part III: The Failure of Arguments Against God
	Chapter 6: The Problem of Suffering
		Introduction
		The Gratuitous Premise
		The Consequence Premise
		Why the Problem Is Not Insurmountable
		Why Is God Hidden from Many of Us?
	Chapter 7: Intractable Religious Disagreement
		Introduction
		Awareness of Religious Disagreement
		The Rationality of the Theist’s Response to Disagreement
	Chapter 8: Why Advanced Science and Philosophy Support Humility
		The Weirdness of Science
		The Weirdness of Philosophy
		The Consequences for the Argument from Outrageousness
Part IV: The Case for Agnosticism
	Chapter 9: The Experience Argument for God
	Chapter 10: Two Troubles with Agnosticism
Concluding Remarks
Further Readings
Index