Table of Contents

• • Introduction   11
• Section One: The Question of Philosophy 
  • 1. The Cosmological Argument — David Beck   15
  • 2. The Moral Argument for God's Existence — Paul Copan   20
  • 3. Near Death Experiences: Evidence for an Afterlife? — Gary R. Habermas   24
  • 4. Naturalism: A Worldview —  L. Russ Bush III   28
  • 5. Suffering for What? —  Bruce A. Little   32
  • 6. Responding to the Argument from Evil: Three Approaches for the Theist — David Wood   36
  • 7. God, Suffering, and Santa Claus: An Examination of the Explanatory Power of Theism and Atheism — David Wood   43
• Section Two: The Question of Science
  • 8. Creator and Sustainer: God's Essential Role in the Universe — Robert Kaita   51
  • 9. The Pale Blue Dot Revisited — Jay W. Richards and Guillermo Gonzalez   55
  • 10. Oxygen, Water, and Light, Oh My! The Toxicity of Life's Basic Necessities —  Joe W. Francis   59
  • 11. The Origin of Life —  Walter Bradley   64
  • 12. What Every High School Student Should Know about Science — Michael Newton Keas   68
  • 13. Darwin's Battleship: Status Report on the Leaks This Ship Has Sprung — Phillip E. Johnson   73
  • 14. Debunking the Scopes "Monkey Trial" Stereotype — Edward Sisson   76
  • 15. How Darwinism Dumbs Us Down: Evolution and Postmodernism —  Nancy Pearcey   81
  • 16. Limits to Evolvability — Ray Bohlin   86
  • 17. Evolutionary Computation: A Perpetual Motion Machine for Design Information? — Robert J. Marks II   91
  • 18. Science, Eugenics, and Bioethics — Richard Weikart   97
  • 19. Designed for Discovery — Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards   101
  • 20. Intelligent Design: A Brief Introduction — William A. Dembski   104
  • 21. Intelligent, Optimal, and Divine Design — Richard Spencer   108
  • 22. Molecular Biology's New Paradigm: Nanoengineering Inside the Cell — Bill Wilberforce   111
  • 23. Panning God: Darwinism's Defective Argument against Bad Design — Jonathan Witt   115
  • 24. The Role of Agency in Science — Angus Menuge   120
  • 25. The Scientific Status of Design Inferences — Bruce L. Gordon   125
  • 26. The Vise Strategy: Squeezing the Truth Out of Darwinists — William A. Dembski   131
• Section Three: The Question of Jesus
  • 27. Did Jesus Really Exist? — Paul L. Maier   143
  • 28. The Credibility of Jesus's Miracles — Craig L. Blomberg   147
  • 29. The Son of Man — Darrell Bock   151
  • 30. The Son of God — Ben Witherington III   154
  • 31. Jesus as God — Ben Witherington III   157
  • 32. Did Jesus Predict His Violent Death and Resurrection? — Craig A. Evans   160
  • 33. Can We Be Certain That jesus Died on a Cross? A Look at the Ancient Practice of Crucifixion — Michael R. Licona   164
  • 34. The Empty Tomb of Jesus — Gary R. Habermas   168
  • 35. The Resurrection Appearances of Jesus — Gary R. Habermas   172
  • 36. Were the Resurrection Appearances of Jesus Hallucinations? — Michael R. Licona   176
  • 37. The Trinity — Bill Gordon   179
  • 38. Is Jesus Superior to All Other Religious Leaders? — Tal Davis   184
  • 39. Is Jesus the Only Way? — Michael R. Licona   190
  • 40. What About Those Who Have Never Heard the Gospel? — Michael R. Licona   196
  • 41. Did Paul Invent Christianity? — Ben Witherington III   200
• Section Four: The Question of the Bible
  • 42. Is the Bible Today What Was Originally Written? — Andreas J. Köstenberger   207
  • 43. Inerrancy and the Text of the New Testament: Assessing the Logic of the Agnostic View — Daniel B. Wallace   211
  • 44. Why All the Translations? — Denny Bark   220
  • 45. Archaeology and the Bible: How Archaeological Findings Have Enhanced the Credibility of the Bible — John McRay   224
  • 46. The Historical Reliability of the Gospels — Craig L. Blomberg   229
  • 47. The New Testament Canon — Craig L. Blomberg   234
  • 48. What Should We Think About the Coptic Gospel of Thomas? — Craig L. Blomberg   238
  • 49. What Should We Think About the Gospel of Peter? — Charles L. Quarles   242
  • 50. What Should We Think About the Gospel of Judas? —Craig A. Evans   247