Unreasonable Faith · How William Lane Craig Overstates the Case for Christianity by Fodor, James -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Chapter One Introduction

The Purpose of This Book A Brief Biography of Craig The Purpose of Craig’s Arguments The Structure of This Book A Note to the Reader

Chapter Two The Kalam Cosmological Argument

Overview of The Argument Premise One: Time is Tensed

Premise Two: The Universe Began to Exist

An Actual Infinite is Impossible The Impossibility of Forming an Infinite by Successive Addition There is Powerful Empirical Evidence for a Beginning of the Universe Summary

Premise Three: Everything That Begins to Exist Has a Cause

Premise Four: If the Universe Had a Cause, That Cause Must be Personal

Summary of the Argument

Chapter Three The Fine-Tuning Argument

Overview of the Argument Premise One: The Universe is Fine-Tuned for Intelligent Life

The Evidence for Fine-Tuning The Possibility of Other Forms of Life Examining Martin Rees’ Six Numbers The Dimensionality Problem The Representativeness Problem

Chance as an Explanation Physical Necessity as an Explanation

Summary of the Argument

Chapter Four The Moral Argument

Overview of the Argument Premise One: Moral Facts Require Grounding Premise Two: Objective Moral Facts Exist

Cognitivism and Non-Cognitivism Relativism and Universalism Craig’s Mutually-Conflicting Arguments Possible Defeaters of Our Moral Experience

Premise Three: God Provides a Foundation for Moral Facts

God’s Nature as the Basis of Morality The Euthyphro Dilemma The Challenge of Ideal Observer Theory

Premise Four: There is No Non-Theistic Grounding for Moral Facts

Non-Theistic Theories of Morality Humanity is Small and Ephemeral Humans as Mere Animals Morality and Free Will Atheism and Moral Duties Reductive Moral Naturalism Explanatory Stopping Points

Summary of the Argument

Chapter Five The Christological Argument

Overview of the Argument

The Structure of Craig’s Argument Criteria for Judging an Explanation The Four Historical Facts

The RHBS Hypothesis

Overview of the Hypothesis Postulate One: Removal of the Body Postulate Two: Private Hallucinatory Experiences Postulate Three: Collective Religious Experiences Postulate Four: Cognitive, Memory, and Social Biases Explanatory Scope and Power of the Postulates

The Resurrection Hypothesis

Overview of the Hypothesis Postulate One: God Exists Postulate Two: God Desired to Raise Jesus Postulate Three: Jesus Desired to Appear to his Followers Explanatory Scope and Power of the Postulates

Summary of the Argument

Chapter Six Other Arguments

The Leibnizian Cosmological Argument The Ontological Argument The Argument from Intentionality The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics

Chapter Seven Conclusions

An Overall Evaluation of Craig’s Arguments What Should We Believe?

Bibliography Endnotes