Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xv
Part I Does Science Point To God? 1
Introduction
The Grand Counter-Narrative 3
Chapter 1 In the Beginning Was the Big Bang 11
Chapter 2 Where Science Cannot Go: The Big Bang and Other Singularities 21
Chapter 3 The Fine-Tuned Planet 35
Chapter 4 The Fine-Tuned Universe 55
Chapter 5 More Planetary Fine-Tuning: Water and Sunlight 69
Chapter 6 How Did Life Originate? or "You Can't Get Here from There" 83
Chapter 7 Life Is Far More Complex Than We Thought 93
Chapter 8 More on Origins of Life: Now What? 109
Part II "The Stones Will Cry Out" 117
Chapter 9 The Evidence of Archaeology 119
Chapter 10 The Black Obelisk That Became a Golden Spike 137
Chapter 11 More Biblical Archaeology: Three Misbehaving Boys Who Changed History 151
Chapter 12 More Archaeology: The New Testament Manuscripts 179
Chapter 13 More New Testament Archaeology 191
Chapter 14 Jerusalem in Jesus's Day 199
Chapter 15 Two Amazing New Testament Discoveries 209
Chapter 16 The Nazareth Home of Jesus 219
Chapter 17 Ur of the Chaldees Discovered: The Surprising Resilience of the Ancient Past 233
Chapter 18 The Discovery of Biblical Sodom 241
Part III What Is Truth? 261
Chapter 19 The Four Horsemen 263
Chapter 20 Is Atheism Evil? 277
Chapter 21 Atheists Who Found God: Sartre, Flew, and Camus 287
Chapter 22 Problems with Atheism; Faith and Science Are BFFs 303
Chapter 23 The Boundaries of Science: More Than Meets the Eye 313
Chapter 24 The Impossible Bleakness of Materialism 323
Chapter 25 The Founding Myth of Atheism: Galileo, Copernicus, and the Church 333
Chapter 26 Christianity Begat Science 347
Chapter 27 Further Problems with Atheism 359
Chapter 28 Atheism Unhinged 369
Chapter 29 Great Scientists Who Were Devout Christians 377
Chapter 30 Conclusions: The Meaning of Meaning 389
Appendix 405
Bibliography 409
