Contents

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Epigraphs

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Paradox of Omniscience

2. God and Evil

3. Cain and Abel’s Dilemma

4. The Parable of Algae

5. Newcomb’s Paradox and Divine Foreknowledge

6. The Devil’s Offer

7. The Revelation Gambit

8. The Paradox of Eden

9. The Brain and God: Who’s in Charge?

10. The Bodhisattva Paradox

11. The Paradox of Pascal’s Wager

12. Two Universes

13. Gödel’s Proof of God

14. The Paradox of Uzzah

15. The Paradox of Dr. Eck

16. The Paradox of Led Zeppelin

17. A Few Quick Puzzles and Surveys

Some Final Thoughts

Appendices

A. Can God Change His Mind?

B. Biblical Suggestions that God Is Omniscient

C. Thirty Examples of God Entering the Time Stream and Aiding Mass Killing

D. Can a Just God Support Cannibalism and Child Sacrifice?

E. Aquinas’s God and Maxwell’s Demon

F. Can an Omniscient Being Lose His Temper?

G. The Paradox of the Flood

H. Saint Augustine and The City of God

I. Does God Make Mistakes and Learn?

J. God Wants Fear

K. Two Proofs that God Is Not All-Knowing?

L. Sixty-Four Way-Out Questions to Ponder

Notes

Further Reading

Index

Works by Clifford A. Pickover

Additional Praise for Clifford A. Pickover

About the Author

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