About the Book

Reason, Faith, and Purpose: The Ultimate Gamble is for readers who want to understand the universe and their place in it. This book reviews the secular, scientific view of the origin and evolution of the universe and life. It analyzes the question of the existence of god from philosophical, religious, and scientific perspectives.

The material in Reason, Faith, and Purpose: The Ultimate Gamble will help you answer the question: does god exist? You can purchase Reason, Faith, and Purpose: The Ultimate Gamble from Amazon.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• About the Author
• Table of Contents

1. QUEST FOR TRUTH
   1. A Personal Quest – The Road to Atheism
   2. A Personal Quest – The Winding Road
   3. Religious Beliefs
   4. The New Atheists
   5. What Lies Ahead?
   PART 1: THE SECULAR VIEW
2. EVIDENCE FOR AN EXPANDING UNIVERSE
   1. The Hubble Diagram
   2. Cosmological Redshift
   3. Cosmic Distance Ladder
   4. Hubble Expansion
   5. Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
3. EVIDENCE FOR INFLATIONARY COSMOLOGY
4. THE BIG BANG
5. THE INFLATION MODEL OF COSMOLOGY
6. WHAT IS LIFE?
7. THE ORIGIN OF LIFE
8. THE EVOLUTION OF LIFE
   PART 2: THE ULTIMATE GAMBLE
9. MYTHOLOGICAL CREATION STORIES
10. ORIGIN OF RELIGION
11. EASTERN THEOLOGY
12. WESTERN THEOLOGY
13. BEYOND THE NATURAL
14. KNOWLEDGE AND SCIENCE
15. COMPETING WORLDVIEWS?
16. THEISM OR ATHEISM?
17. WHAT IS YOUR WAGER?

• Discussion Questions
• Endnotes
• Dates of Selected Characters
• References
• Index