items “unreal” leaves out something important. I have suggested that God is, at bottom, one of these abstract objects. You can be a skeptic about the traditional picture of God as a quasi-material, ghostly being, and still believe the idea of God I presented in this book. 3. There can be a God even if no one created the universe. If God is the supremely good being, then there could be a God eve...

This online supplement provides additional material to accompany the printed paper, henceforth denoted ES. In Section S.1, we review some mathematical background on Fenchel duality used in the proof of the representation and uniqueness results in ES. In Section S.2, we establish the necessity of the L-continuity axiom for the signed RFCC representation defined in Appendix C. Section S.3 include...

Results: Seventy-three percent of adult homeless male respondents were current smokers, and 44% homeless male smokers smoked their first cigarette within five minutes of waking up. Smokers were significantly more likely to be African American than persons of white or other race. Analysis of the Fagerström Tests for Nicotine Dependence (FTND) revealed 41% homeless male smokers to be in the high ...

Mormons claim that God the Father has a “body of flesh and bones.” Nowhere is this statement made in the Bible, so they support this idea through the statement that God created man in His own image, which requires that God look like a man. However, there are many problems with this interpretation. First, the Bible says that God created both males and females in His image. Unless God were a herm...