FC; Half title; Also Available From Bloomsbury; Title; Copyright; Quote; Contents; Introduction; 1 The idea of God; The supreme being; The divine attributes -- perfect in every way; The divine attributes -- everywhere all the time; Summary of the divine attributes; 2 The origins of the idea of God; Descartes -- the idea of God is God-given; Experiencing God -- perception or hallucination?; Inventing God to fill the gaps; Freud -- God as big daddy; Durkheim -- God as the symbol of society; Marx -- God as a sedative; 3 The existence of God; The theistic arguments; The ontological argument.

Anselm's ontological argumentAnselm and Gaunilo debate; Aquinas dismisses the ontological argument; Descartes revives the ontological argument; Why the ontological argument fails; The cosmological argument; The unmoved mover argument; The uncaused cause argument; The contingency and necessity argument; Why the cosmological argument fails; The teleological argument; Aristotle to Paley -- the history of the teleological argument; Why the teleological argument fails; Evolution -- an unassailable theory; Hume hammers home the final nail; The fourth way -- the argument from degree.

Why the argument from degree failsThe moral argument; Why the moral argument fails; 4 Evil and God; Natural evil and moral evil; Spelling out the problem of evil; Theodicy -- the free will defence; Theodicy -- soul making; 5 Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.