Index: Assessing Theism in General and Christianity in Particular

0. Preliminaries:
0.1 On caring about and pursuing truth: here
0.2 On faith and reason: here and here.
0.3 On the theistic conception of God: here
0.4 On a Common Apologetic Fallacy: here
0.5 On a Common Apologetic Strategy: here

1. Evaluation of Arguments for Theism
1.1 Cosmological arguments
1.1.1 The Leibnizian cosmological argument: part 1, part 2, part 3. Also: here here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here.
1.1.2 The kalam cosmological argument: here, here, here, here and here (scroll down to the comments), here, here, here.
1.1.3 Thomistic cosmological arguments (and others): here, here.
1.2 Design arguments:
1.2.1 Paley-style versions and fine-tuning versions: Here, here, here, here, here. See also here, here, and here, here, here, here.
1.2.2 Behe's irreducible complexity version: Part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6. See also here, here.
1.2.3 Dembski's explanatory filter version: here, here, here.
1.2.4 Meyer's DNA version: here.
1.3 The ontological argument: here, here, here.
1.4 The moral argument: here, here, here.
1.5 Arguments from religious experience: part 1, part 2
1.6 Arguments From Consciousness: Here, here, here.
1.7 The argument from abstract objects: here, here.
1.8 The argument from reason: here.
1.9 Plantinga's argument from anti-realism: here.
1.10 Plantinga's argument from proper function: here, here, here.
1.11 Plantinga's Reformed Epistemology: herehere, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here.
1.12 Plantinga's evolutionary argument against naturalism (EAAN): here, see the comments section here, here, here, here.
1.13 Presuppositional apologetics: here, here.
1.14 Moser's case for rational belief: Here.
1.15 Cumulative case arguments: here
1.16 Pragmatic arguments (overview here)
1.16.1 Pascal's Wager: here, here.
1.16.2 James' Will to Believe argument: here (skip down to section 1.3 of the outline), here, here.
1.16.3 Craig's arguments against atheistic morality, moral motivation, meaning, and purpose: here.

2. Evaluation of Arguments Against Theism
2.1 The Logical Problem of Evil: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5. See also here, here, here.
2.2 The evidential problem of evil: here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here.
2.3 The argument from religious diversity: here
2.4 Arguments from divine hiddenness, religious ambiguity, and reasonable non-belief: here, here.
2.5 The argument from evolution: here
2.6 The argument from the mind's dependence on the brain: here
2.7 The argument from the demographics of theism: here, here.
2.8 The argument from unreliable mechanisms for religious belief: here.
2.9 The argument from reasonable religious disagreement: here, here.

3. Evaluation of Arguments for Chrisitanity
3.1 Arguments for the reliability of the New Testament: here, here
3.2 Arguments for the deity of Jesus: here
3.3 Arguments for the resurrection of Jesus: here

4. Arguments Against Christian Theism
4.1 The argument for Jesus as a failed apocalyptic prophet: here 
4.2 Arguments against the reliability of the New Testament
4.3 Arguments from divinely-caused and/or mandated evil in the Old Testament: here, here, here, and here here
4.4 The argument from divinely-endorsed slavery in the Old and New Testaments: here, here
4.5 The argument from divinely-condoned slavery and the the subordination of women: here.
4.6 The argument from the doctrine of everlasting punishment
4.7 The argument from evolution: here
4.8 Hume's argument against the rationality of belief in miracles: here, here, here, here, here, here,
4.9 The problem of identifying miracles given the Bible's hypothesis of "the Devil's Lying Wonders": here.
4.10 The argument from scientific evidence for the ineffectiveness of prayer: here, here, here. here.
4.11 The argument from the ineffectiveness of spiritual disciplines in personal transformation
4.12 The argument from non-obviousness: here.

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