Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book argues that some familiar paradoxes of infinity can only be resolved if the history of the world is finite. It deals with the Atheist value of truth seeking, and argues that truth seeking in certain domains leads one to expect to find explanations for contingent events, which bolsters a key premise in the argument for existence of a foundational explanation of contingent reality. The book provides a probabilistic argument that connects moral knowledge and theism, and draws attention to a critical distinction between one’s evidence and one’s perspective on one’s evidence. It shows how Dawkins’s Gambit objection inspires a deeper understanding of the nature of the foundation of things, and explain how reasonable theists understand the connection between God and moral truth and often challenge the idea that one can develop an entirely satisfactory moral framework based solely on secular premises.