God's Not Dead: Evidence for God in an Age of Uncertainty (34 page)

Christian,
xiv–xvii
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1
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4
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12
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18
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19
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22
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23
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28
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34
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42
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50
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61
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63
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90
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96
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97
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106
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107
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128
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143
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144
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148–151
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156
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158
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161
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165
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166
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168
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169
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173
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176
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179
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182–84
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189
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191
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196
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198
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201–05
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211–19
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221
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222
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225
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226
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235
   (
see also
born-again Christians)

Christian church/community/congregation,
156
,
157
,
166
,
182
,
198
,
215

Christian doctrine,
206
Christian faith,
xv
,
xvii
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1
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21
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50
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92
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115
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143
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149
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191
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201
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202
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210
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213
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218
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224
Christian theist,
107
Christian worldview (
see
worldview)

Christianity,
xi
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xvii
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xviii
, xx,
1
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3
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9
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12
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23
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28
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50
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117
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128
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140
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148
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149
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152
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155
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157
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186–88
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190
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191
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198
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201
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203
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205
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210–14
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217–19
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221
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234
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237

Cleave, Maureen,
210
Collins, Francis,
23
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24
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90
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128
communist China,
117

communist ideology,
199
communist world,
117
conflict between naturalism and faith,
38
Constantine, Emperor,
173
,
187
Copernicus, Nicolaus,
81
cosmos/cosmologist/cosmology,
49
,
61
,
66–68
,
70
,
82
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84
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86
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107
cosmological argument,
70–71
Cosmos
,
67
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114
Craig, William Lane,
19
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34
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65
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70
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115
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150
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173–74
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189
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216
creativity,
110
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133

Creator,
xii
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xv
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4
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5
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10
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17
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22
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35
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45
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92
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93
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97
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108
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119
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122
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124
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141–42
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165
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206
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211
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230
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239
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240–41

Creator and the Cosmos, The
,
80
Crick, Francis,
90
,
99
Crossan, John Dominic,
156
Crowe, Russell,
186
Cury, Augusto,
232
Cyrus, king of Persia,
180

D

D
ark Knight Rises, The
,
40
Darwin, Charles,
3
,
43
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67
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88
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91
,
92–96
,
103
,
111
,
118
,
205
Darwinian,
110
,
134
   dogma,
6
   ethics,
51-52
   evolution, naturalism (
see
       evolution, naturalism)
   explanation for life,
92
Darwinism/Darwinist,
92
,
103
,
106
Da Vinci Code, The
,
173
,
187
Davies, Paul,
82

Dawkins, Richard,
7
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8
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19–21
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23–25
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27
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36
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40
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42
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51–52
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54
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73
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79
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83
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85
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86
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88
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92
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93
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96
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99–101
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103
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104
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118
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120
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123
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127
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130
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132
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141
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216
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222
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223
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237

Dead Sea Scrolls,
164
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165
,
169
,
176
,
179
Declaration of Independence,
44
,
206
Dennett, Daniel,
6
,
19
,
33
Denton, Michael,
133
Descartes, René,
70
,
132
Did Jesus Exist?
,
139
Differences Between Humans and
   Animals,
131–37
   aesthetic recognition,
132
   beyond the physical,
136
   creativity and scientific
       exploration,
133
   develop culture,
135
   free will,
137
   higher intelligence,
134
   language,
132
   morality,
134
   personhood,
135
   spiritual hunger,
137
   thinking about thinking,
131
dignity of life,
195–96
disbelief, delusion of,
7–9
divine force,
71
DNA,
23
,
51
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52
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89–91
,
96
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99
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108
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109
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125
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128–29
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135
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207
   junk DNA,
109
,
129
   pseudogenes,
128
Donald, Merlin,
136
Dostoevsky, Fyodor,
53
Douglas, Michael,
164
Durant, Will,
186

E

Eckleben, Pastor Wolfgang,
216
Economist
magazine,
3
,
210

Eddington, Sir Arthur Stanley,
69
Egyptologists,
148
Ehrman, Bart,
139
,
143
,
155
,
183
,
185
Einstein, Albert,
24
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38
,
66
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67
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92
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165
End of Faith, The
,
46
Epicureans,
239
ethics and morality,
34
ethnicity,
116
,
205
,
235
Europe,
3
,
201
,
202
,
210
,
215–16
evangelism,
17
evangelists of unbelief,
13

evidence,
xii
,
xiii
,
xv
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xvi
, xx, xxi,
4
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5
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8–10
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17–18
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19
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21
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25
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83–85
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95–97
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100
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103
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106
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108–112
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124
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126
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127–139
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136
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139
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141–44
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147
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149
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152–56
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165–66
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172
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179–181
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Evidence That Demands a Verdict
,
230
evil,
xviii
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xix
,
5
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11
,
28
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34
,
chapter
   3
(
40–65
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116
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118
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120
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139
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144
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171
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182
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185
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188
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189
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191–93
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evolution,
13
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94
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95–97
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100
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102
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03
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105
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111
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112
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126
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139
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223
     and atheism,
131
     and natural selection,
207
     Darwinian evolution,
xiii
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11
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40
,
43
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51
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52
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112
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118
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126
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127
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         non-Darwinian,
111
     “Evolution’s Big Bang,”
110
     human evolution,
122
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125
,
126
,
127–29
     macroevolution,
93
,
124

     microevolution,
94
     evolutionary,
126
     change,
93
     development,
110
     dogma,
95
     freak of nature,
124
     instincts,
51
,
129-130
     narrative,
113
     theory,
92
,
96
,
110
     worldview (
see
worldview)
evolutionist,
51
,
106
,
110
Evolution from Space
,
99
existential/existentialists/
   existentialism,
53
,
58
,
118
,
119
,
121
eyewitnesses,
154–55

F

f
aith, introduction (xi–xxi),
1–4
,
6
,
8
,
11–14
,
18
, chapter
2
(
19–39
),
42
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46
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50
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53
,
70–72
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83
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82
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103
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121
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126
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142
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143
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150
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157
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165
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174
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182
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183
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190
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202
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208
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210–14
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217–19
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221
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223
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225–28
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230
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235
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239
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240
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242
(
see also
Christian faith)
  blind faith,
46
,
224
,
228

      in God,
xii
,
xiii
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xv
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xvii
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2
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3
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13
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18
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21
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27
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32
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46
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50
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70
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126
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165
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195
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214
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228

   leap of,
103
,
121–23
   three key ingredients of,
29–30
          assent,
30
          knowledge,
29
          trust,
30
Finding Faith at Ground Zero
,
15
“fine-tuning of the universe,”

   
78–79
,
80
,
81
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83
,
84
,
87
,
90
,
125
,
142
Flew, Anthony,
88–90
,
134

fossils/fossil record,
xii
,
43
,
110–13
,
125–28
Four Horsemen of Atheism,
6
Francis of Assisi,
xv
Francis, James Allan,
161
Frankenstein, Dr.,
98
Frankl, Viktor,
116
free will,
59–61
,
137
,
165
freedom,
52
,
56
,
58
,
60
,
116
,
200
,
206–07
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217
,
220
Freud, Sigmund,
7
,
116
,
232
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234
Fuller Theological Seminary,
18

G

G
alapagos Islands,
94
,
95
Galileo,
25
,
67
,
78
Gates, Bill,
90
Gautama, Siddhartha (Buddha),
230
general revelation/special
    revelation,
172
genes (
see
DNA)
genetic,
113
,
125
,
128
,
229
   code,
99
,
126
   predispositions,
42
   variations,
93
   wiring,
52
geneticist,
23
genetics,
43
,
120
,
123
Germany,
216
Global Atheist Convention (
see
    atheism/atheist)
Gladiator
,
186
God (
see also
Creator)
   Author of life,
195
,
240
   Christian God,
50
   Creator God,
5
,
9
,
17
,
35
,
240
   faith in God (
see
faith)
   promise maker/keeper,
170
   supreme ruler,
56