Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes (38 page)

A

Abbott, Lyman,
266

Absolute Spirit, Hegel,
115
-
18
,
240
,
266

Absolute, Neo-Platonic,
114

absolutize,
45
,
60
-
61
,
80
-
81
,
85
,
99
,
113
,
118
,
122
,
129
,
135
-
38
,
167
,
199
,
203
–
5

false absolute,
61
,
85
,
135
,
138
,
203

abstract art,
263
-
64

Ackley, Alfred,
13

altruistic behavior,
100
-
101

analytic tradition,
113

Anaximenes,
68

Anomaly
(musical album),
272

Anselm,
215
-
16

The Antichrist
(Nietzsche),
17

anti-humanism,
122

anti-realism,
119
,
169

Aping Mankind
(Tallis),
232

apologetics

Greek word for,
163
,
251

necessity of,
247
-
52
,
254

postmodern theology’s rejection of,
267
-
68

Romans as training for,
24
-
26

Apostles’ Creed,
214

Aquinas, Thomas,
215
-
16

arché
(source or first cause),
68
-
70

architects and architecture,
262
-
63

Aristotle,
66
,
69
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70
,
77
,
86

artistic expressions of philosophy.
See
visual arts

art, as religion substitute
83
-
84

ashamed, biblical meaning of,
139

“not ashamed” of the gospel (Romans
1
:
16
),
51
,
139
,
234
,
255
,
275

“as if” concept,
159
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60
,
173
,
179
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80
,
190
,
199
,
222
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23
,
239

The Astonishing Hypothesis
(Crick),
193

atheists and atheism

atheistic religions,
64

children of,
31

church for,
236

New Atheists,
43
,
60
,
70
,
157

science undermined by,
196

as a substitute religion,
235
-
41

as wish fulfillment,
180
-
81

Augustine,
66

Avatar
(movie),
65

B

Bacon, Francis,
78
-
80

Barbour, Ian,
112

Barna, George,
220

Barrett, Justin,
31

Barthes, Roland,
200
-
202

Baum, Eric,
160

Bedau, Mark,
109
–
10

Berlin, Isaiah,
136

“The Blind Men and the Elephant” (poem),
85

Bloom, Allan,
271

Bloom, Paul,
31

Botton, Alain de,
236

brain, as a computer,
10
7
-
8
,
153
-
54

A Brief History of Thought
(Luc),
235
-
36

Brooks, Rodney,
164
-
65

Buddhism,
64
,
66
,
126
,
127
-
28

C

Call of the Wild
(London),
259

Calvin, John,
31
,
38
,
145

Cézanne,
262

cheating experiment,
102

Chesterton, G. K.,
137
,
165
-
67
,
254
-
55

children

innate knowledge of God,
31

Christians and Christianity

apologetics, necessity of,
247
-
52

creativity and,
269
-
70

incarnation,
213

not logically contradictory,
181
-
82
,
183

not reductionistic,
41
,
45
,
48
,
86
,
136
,
138
,
183
,
188
-
90
,
210

resurrection,
214

science, origins in Christianity,
95
,
197
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99
,
215
,
226
-
28

Scripture,
125
-
26
,
244
-
45

Secular conseqences of giving it up,
241
-
46

as total truth,
139
,
152
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53
,
155
,
166
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67
,
170
-
72
,
181
,
216
,
270
-
71
,
272
,
273
-
74

Trinity,
130
-
31
,
209
–
12

Cicero,
28

The Closing of the American Mind
(Bloom),
271

Clouser, Roy,
44
,
66

cognitive dissonance,
39
,
47
,
48
,
149
,
162
,
164
,
166
,
179
-
80
,
231
,
232

Cohen, Richard,
197

Coleridge, Samuel,
84

common grace,
30
-
31

Communism,
133
-
35

Confucianism,
64

consciousness

denial of,
45
,
106
-
11
,
144
,
148
,
150
,
160
-
61
,
166
,
173
,
174
,
194
,
229
,
230

continental tradition,
113
,
117
,
167

“contrary to nature” (Romans
1
:
26
-
27
),
41

Copernicus,
82

Cosmos
(television series),
71

Coyne, Jerry,
71

Craig, William Lane,
22
,
170
,
185

Crick, Francis,
107
,
173
-
74
,
193

critical thinking,
253
-
55

Critiques
(Kant),
122

cubism,
262
–
63

Culture and the Death of God
(Eagleton),
61

D

Darwin, Charles,
96
,
238
,
259

his horrid doubt,
194
-
95

his selective skeptism,
194
-
97

Darwinism

evolution,
108
–
11
,
124
,
150
-
51
,
160
-
65
,
177
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81
,
192
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94
,
219
,
225
-
26
,
229

Hegel as precursor,
115

Nagel on,
230
-
31

Tallis on,
232
-
34

Davies, Paul,
26
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27
,
228

Dawkins, Richard,
13
,
157
-
58
,
243

de Botton, Alain,
236

de Tocqueville, Alexis,
225

debased, Greek word for,
40

Declaration of Independence,
226

deconstructionism,
200
-
202
,
265

moral claims, impact on,
204

imperialistic,
205
–
7

self-referential absurbity of,
20
1
-
2
,
204

Democritus,
77

denial, psychology of,
31
-
33

Derrida, Jacques,
201

Descartes, René,
78
-
81

The Descent of Man
(Darwin),
238

design and intelligent design theory,
25
-
28
,
31
,
178
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80
,
213
,
214
,
215
,
219
,
223
,
230
-
31
,
233
,
243

determinism and determined,
19
,
45
,
47
,
72
,
102
,
142
,
144
-
50
,
158
-
65
,
191
,
206
,
259

dialegomai
Greek word for reasoned,
90

diversity,
204
–
7
,
209
–
12

divine and divinity, concept at core of every religion and philosophy,
43
,
66
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68
,
69
,
71
,
77
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80
,
83
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98
,
115
-
16
,
127
-
29
,
131
,
137
,
174
,
216
,
270
-
71

DNA,
27

Dooyeweerd, Herman,
85
,
118
,
143

double truth theory,
173

doublethink,
152
,
154