Prologue: The birth of the new atheism -- The coevolution of very early science and religion -- Why archaeology does not disprove the Bible -- The revolt of science -- The triumphs of science in the nineteenth century -- Einstein, God, and the Big Bang -- God and the quantum -- The "universe from nothing" deception -- And on the eighth day, God created the multiverse -- Mathematics, probability, and God -- Catastrophes, chaos, and the limits of human knowledge -- Between God and the anthropic principle -- The limits of evolution -- Art, symbolic thinking, and the invisible boundary -- Engaging the infinite -- Conclusion: why the "scientific" argument for atheism fails.
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