This book has been a long time coming. In my first year of graduate school, 1969, I was a graduate assistant to Norman Geisler, who decreed that after teaching a course five times, one must write the textbook. He seems to always have adhered to that maxim. On the other hand, I myself have been teaching courses on the subject of God’s existence for almost fifty years and am just now getting around to writing it down. Now I did have some good excuses. Within ten years I became entangled in