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Tables of Contents for The Ghost in the Universe
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
9
2
Introduction: Does God Exist?
11
2
Sophisticated Gods
13
3
A Road Map
16
5
Making Sense of God
21
30
Something for Nothing
21
3
A Necessary Being?
24
7
The Impossible God
31
4
A Religious Theory
35
4
The Great Programmer
39
5
Is God a Philosophical Problem?
44
7
Let There Be Life
51
32
Specially Created
51
3
Resisting Evolution
54
5
Bringing Back the Designer
59
5
Order from Chaos
64
5
Darwin in Mind
69
5
God After Darwin
74
9
The Gods of Modern Physics
83
32
Physics in the New Age
83
4
Egocentric Cosmology
87
5
The Big Banger
92
5
A Quantum Spirit
97
6
Life, the Universe, and Everything
103
4
An Unnecessary Hypothesis
107
8
History and Holy Writ
115
32
Special Revelation
115
3
Yahweh's Promise
118
6
The Messenger of God
124
5
God's Empires
129
4
The Meanings of History
133
6
The End of Revelation
139
8
God Incarnate
147
32
In Search of Jesus
147
3
An Apocalyptic Prophet
150
5
Mythmaking
155
6
A Miracle Worker
161
5
The Risen Lord
166
5
The Bad News
171
8
Signs and Wonders
179
32
Wondrous Phenomena
179
3
A Spiritual Science
182
6
Great Performances
188
4
Statistical Miracles
192
3
Soaring Spirits
195
8
Thinking Meat
203
8
Of Mystics and Machines
211
32
Feeling the Spirit
211
4
Thirty-one Flavors of Ultimate Reality
215
5
Beyond the Brain?
220
6
The Limits of Language
226
4
Holy Reason
230
5
Accidental Reason
235
8
Leaps of Faith
243
32
Exorcizing Doubt
243
4
Reason Reformed
247
4
Progress? What Progress?
251
6
Round in Circles
257
5
The Sun Also Rises
262
5
Universal Reason
267
8
The Knowledge of Good and Evil
275
32
Moral Certainty
275
3
High Weirdness by Theology
278
5
The Morality of a Social Animal
283
6
Talking Morals
289
4
Believing the Absurd
293
6
Beyond Pragmatism
299
8
CONCLUSION: THE GOD OF SONG AND STORY
307
8
Divine Falsehoods
309
3
New Stories
312
3
Index
315