you're still going to want defenses of Christianity -- again, Feser says explicitly that the book defends theism period, and thus leaves it open as to whether Christianity, Judaism, Islam, neo-Platonism, etc, or any other religion is the true religion. But after this book, you will be (in my opinion) better equipped to approach that question intellectually -- and more importantly, you'll be able to distinguish (rightly) between theism generally and particular religions. You'll also be able to ask better questions of atheists and theists alike. Good comments from Jon Garvey, Vincent and nullasalus. JLAfan2001 now has a lot of suggestions for constructive reading. And reading good material, rather than arguing on the internet, is what I think he should be doing. The diligent seeker after truth will spend a higher percentage of time reading than arguing. Arguing can be useful for clarifying one's ideas, but unless one has first done some studying, the quality of the argument will not be good. For JLAfan, I'd recommend at least two hours of book- or article-reading for every one hour spent in debate or conversation. I'm now confident that JLAfan has received good advice and moral support from a number of people, so I'm exiting. How does population genetics work in conjunction with mitochondrial eve and y chromosome adam? They say that homo sapiens evolved from a population of around 10,000 around 150,000 years ago. How does one woman and one man come out of that? Please explain in high school terms.