The Ghost in the Universe

Table of Contents

 Does God Exist?
  Sophisticated Gods
  A Road Map
1. Making Sense of God
  Something for Nothing
  A Necessary Being?
  The Impossible God
  A Religious Theory
  The Great Programmer
  Is God a Philosophical Problem?
2. Let There be Life
  Specially Created
  Resisting Evolution
  Bringing Back the Designer
  Order from Chaos
  Darwin in Mind
  God After Darwin
3. The Gods of Modern Physics
  Physics in the New Age
  Egocentric Cosmology
  The Big Banger
  A Quantum Spirit
  Life, The Universe, and Everything
  An Unnecessary Hypothesis
4. History and Holy Writ
  Special Revelation
  Yahweh's Promise
  The Messenger of God
  God's Empires
  The Meanings of History
  The End of Revelation
5. God Incarnate
  In Search of Jesus
  An Apocalyptic Prophet
  Mythmaking
  A Miracle-Worker
  The Risen Lord
  The Bad News
6. Signs and Wonders
  Wondrous Phenomena
  A Spiritual Science
  Great Performances
  Statistical Miracles
  Soaring Spirits
  Thinking Meat
7. Of Mystics and Machines
  Feeling the Spirit
  Thirty-one Flavors of Ultimate Reality
  Beyond the Brain?
  The Limits of Language
  Holy Reason
  Accidental Reason
8. Leaps of Faith
  Exorcizing Doubt
  Reason Reformed
  Progress? What Progress?
  Round in Circles
  The Sun Also Rises
  Universal Reason
9. The Knowledge of Good and Evil
  Moral Certainty
  High Weirdness by Theology
  The Morality of a Social Animal
  Talking Morals
  Believing the Absurd
  Beyond Pragmatism
 The God of Song and Story
  Divine Falsehoods
  New Stories

Taner Edis
Ghost Home
Last modified: 9-Jun-2003