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Click here For data on the adjectives used in the inventory see Costa, P. T., Jr., and R. R. McCrae. 1992. NEO PI–R Professional Manual: Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO PI–R) and NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO–FFI). Odessa, Fla.: Psychological Assessment Resources, Inc.
Click here Attribution theory is discussed in Gilbert, D. T., B. W. Pelham, and D. S. Krull. 1988. “On Cognitive Busyness: When Person Perceivers Meet Persons Perceived,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 54: 733–739.
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Nisbett, R. E., and L. Ross. 1980. Human Inference: Strategies and Shortcomings of Social Judgment. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.
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CHAPTER 5: O Ye of Little Faith: Proofs of God and What They Tell Us about Faith
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Click here Hawking, S. W. 1996. The Cambridge Lectures. New York: Dove Books.
Click here For Martin Gardner’s opinions on the God question see Shermer, M. 1997. “The Annotated Gardner: An Interview with Martin Gardner.” Skeptic, 5/2: 56–61.
Click here For Anselm quote see Hick, J. 1964. The Existence of God: From Plato to A. J. Ayer on the Question “Does God Exist”? New York: Collier Books.
Click here Lewis, C. S. 1947. Miracles. New York: Macmillan, p. 10.
Click here “Pass It On”: The Story of Bill Wilson and How the A.A. Message Reached the World. 1984. New York: Alcoholics Anonymous. World Services, Inc.
Click here Gardner, M. 1983. The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener. New York: William Morrow.
Click here For more on the role of personality in beliefs see Sulloway, F. 1996. Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives. New York:Pantheon.
Click here Ross, H. 1993. The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God. Colorado Springs, Colo.: Navpress.
Click here Ross, H. 1994. Creation and Time: A Biblical and Scientific Perspective on the Creation-Date Controversy. Colorado Springs, Colo.: Navpress.
Click here Ross, H. 1996. Beyond the Cosmos: What Recent Discoveries in Astronomy and Physics Reveal about the Nature of God. Colorado Springs, Colo.: Navpress.
Click here For a refutation of Ross see Stenger, V. J. 1998. “The Functional Equivalent of God: A Refutation of the Cosmological Design Argument,” Skeptic, 6/3: 89–91.
Click here Glynn, P. 1997. God: The Evidence: The Reconciliation of Faith and Reason in a Postsecular World. Rocklin, Calif.: Prima Publishing, pp. 165–166.
Click here For a refutation of Glynn see Shallit, J. 1998. “Designing the Designer. A Review of Patrick Glynn, God: The Evidence,” Skeptic, 6/2: 80–82.
Click here Schroeder. G. L. 1997. The Science of God: The Convergence of Scientific and Biblical Wisdom. New York: Free Press, pp. 58, 61, 71.
Click here Raymo, C. 1998. Skeptics and True Believers: The Exhilarating Connection between Science and Religion. New York: Walker and Co., p. 8.
Click here Mazet, B. 1998. “A Case for God,” Skeptic, 6/2: 50–55.
Click here White, M., and J. Gribbin. 1992. Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science. New York: Plume/Penguin, pp. 3, 166–167.
Click here Hawking, S. W. 1988. A Brief History of Time. New York: Bantam Books, pp. 140–141, 175.
Click here Davies, P. 1992. The Mind of God: The Scientific Basis for a Rational World. New York: Touchstone, p. 189.
Click here Barrow, J., and F. Tipler. 1986. The Anthropic Cosmological Principle. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Click here Tipler, F. 1994. The Physics of Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the Dead. New York: Doubleday, pp. 21–23, 677.
Click here Pannenberg, W. 1997. “Modern Cosmology: God and the Resurrection of the Dead.” Lecture delivered at the Innsbruck Conference, June, p. 1.
Click here Tipler, F. 1997. Personal correspondence. October 17.
Click here Tipler, F. 1994. The Physics of Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the Dead. New York: Doubleday, pp. 347, 356–357.
Click here Harmon N. (ed.). The Interpreter’s Bible. Nashville, Tenn.: Abingdon Press, Vol. 1, pp. 874–875.
Click here Deutsch, D. 1997. The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes—and Its Implications. New York: Allen Lane/Penguin.
Click here Guth, A. 1997. The Inflationary Universe: The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins. Reading, Mass.: Addison Wesley, p. 276.
Click here Smolin, L. 1997. The Life of the Cosmos. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 197–198, 201.
Click here For a history and analysis of the Louisiana case see Shermer, M. 1991. “Science Defended, Science Defined: The Louisiana Creationism Case,” Science, Technology, and Human Values, 16 (4): 517–539.
Click here Behe, M. 1996. Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution. New York: Free Press.
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Click here Behe, M. 1996. Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution. New York: Free Press, p. 39.
Click here Pennock, R. T. 1999. Tower of Babel: The Evidence Against New Creationism. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Click here Johnson, P. 1991. Darwin on Trial. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press.
Click here Scott, E. C. 1998. “Two Kinds of Materialism: Keeping Them Separate Makes Faith and Science Compatible,” Free Inquiry, Spring: 37–38.
Click here Dembski, W. A. 1998. The Design Inference: Eliminating Chance through Small Probabilities. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
For a complete refutation of Behe and the new intelligent design/irreducible complexity argument see Stenger, V. J. 1998. “The Functional Equivalent of God: A Refutation of the Cosmological Design Argument,” Skeptic, 6/3: 89–91. See also:
Gilchrist, G. W. 1997. “The Elusive Scientific Basis of Intelligent Design Theory.” Report of the National Center for Science Education, May–June: 14–15.
Coyne, J. A. 1996. “God in the Details: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution,” Nature, September 19: 227–228.
Miller, K. R. 1996. “Book Review of Darwin’s Black Box,” Creation/Evolution, 16(2): 36–40.
See www.talkorigins.org for an ongoing discussion of intelligent design creationism.
Click here Dembski, W. A. (ed.). 1998. Mere Creation: Science, Faith, and Intelligent Design. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press.
Click here Drosnin, M. 1997. The Bible Code. New York: Simon and Schuster.
Click here Rips, E., D. Witztum, and Y. Rosenberg. 1994. “Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis.” Satistical Science, 9 (4): 429–438.
Click here Drosnin, M. 1997. The Bible Code. New York: Simon and Schuster, p. 108.
Click here Hendel, R. S. 1997. “The Secret Code Hoax,” Bible Review, August: 24.
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Click here Woodward, K. L. 1997. “Is God Listening?” Newsweek, March 31: 57–65.
Click here Dart, J. 1997. “Does God’s Hand Write in Code?” Los Angeles Times, June 10: A1, A24.
Click here Jeffrey, G. R., and Y. Rambsel. 1995. The Signature of God. Spring Arbor Publisher.
Click here McKay’s findings are on his web page at cs.anu.edu.au./-bdm/dilugiss/statsci
Click here Friedman, R. E. 1987. Who Wrote the Bible? New York: Simon and Schuster.
Click here Friedman, R. E. 1998. The Hidden Book in the Bible. San Francisco: Harper.
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Click here Larue, G. 1970. Old Testament Life and Literature. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
Click here Drosnin, M. 1997. The Bible Code. New York: Simon and Schuster, pp. 58, 134, 142.
Click here Woodward, K. L. 1997. “Is God Listening?” Newsweek, March 31: 57–65.
CHAPTER 6: In a Mirror Dimly, Then Face to Face: Faith, Reason, and the Relationship of Religion and Science
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Click here Pope John Paul II. 1997. “Message to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.” Reprinted in The Quarterly Review of Biology, December, 72(4): 381–83.
Click here Gould, S. J. 1997. “Nonoverlapping Magisteria: Science and Religion Are Not in Conflict, for Their Teachings Occupy Distinctly Different Domains,” Natural History, March: 16–20.
Click here Gould, S. J. 1999. Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life. New York: Ballantine Books.
Click here Ruse, M. 1997. “John Paul II and Evolution,” The Quarterly Review of Biology, December, 72(4): 394.
Click here Scott, E. C. 1997. “Creationists and the Pope’s Statement,” The Quarterly Review of Biology, December, 72(4): 406.
Click here Consolmagno quote in: Ortega, T. 1998. “High Priests of Astronomy,” Astronomy, December: 61.
Click here Pope John Paul II. Fides et Ratio.
Click here Wallace, A. F. C. 1966. Religion: An Anthropological View. New York: Random House.
Click here Wilson, E. O. 1978. On Human Nature. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, pp. 169–171.
Click here For data on church involvement after the L.A. riots see Melton, J. G. 1998. “Why People Need Religion,” Skeptics Society Annual Conference. California Institute of Technology. May.
CHAPTER 7: The Storytelling Animal: Myth, Morality, and the Evolution of Religion
Click here Gazzaniga, M. S. 1998. The Mind’s Past. Berkeley: University of California Press, p. 27.
Click here For data in suport of an evolutionary analysis of diet see: Sapolsky, R. M. 1998. Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers: An Updated Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping. New York: W. H. Freeman and Company. See also:
Widmaier, E. P. 1998. Why Geese Don’t Get Obese (And We Do): How Evolution’s Strategies for Survival Affect Our Everyday Lives. New York: W. H. Freeman and Company.
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Click here Cosmides, L., and J. Tooby. 1992. “Cognitive Adaptations for Social Exchange.” In The Adapted Mind, (eds.) J. H. Barkow, L. Cosmides, and J. Tooby. Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 5.
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Click here Wilson, E. O. 1998. Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge. New York: Knopf, pp. 127, 128, 149–150
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Click here Cosmides, L., and J. Tooby. 1992. “Cognitive Adaptations for Social Exchange.” In The Adapted Mind, (eds.) J. H. Barkow, L. Cosmides, and J. Tooby. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 205, 221.
Click here Landau, M. 1984. “Human Evolution as Narrative,” American Scientist, 72: 262–268.
Click here Brunvand, J. H. 1981. The Vanishing Hitchhiker. New York: W. W. Norton.
Click here Campbell, J. 1949. The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, p. 382.
Click here Campbell, J. 1972. Myths to Live By. New York: Bantam Books, pp. 221–222.
Click here The mythic stories recounted and documented in Campbell, J. 1968. The Masks of God: Creative Mythology. New York: Viking, pp. 113–123. See also:
Child, C. G. 1904. Beowulf and the Finnesburg Fragment. New York: Houghton Mifflin.
Lawrence, W. W. 1928. Beowulf and the Epic Tradition. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Click here Konner, M. 1982. The Tangled Wing: Biological Constants on the Human Spirit. New York: Harper, pp. 5, 171.
Click here Wilson, E. O. 1998. Personal correspondence. July 7.
Click here For data and analysis on the evolution of language, see Johanson, D., and B. Edgar. 1996. From Lucy to Language. New York: Simon and Schuster, p. 106. See also:
Pinker, S. 1994. The Language Instinct. New York: W. W. Norton.
Tattersall, I. 1995. The Fossil Trail. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Click here Deacon, T. W. 1997. The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain. New York: W. W. Norton. See also:
Cashdan, E. 1989. “Hunters and Gatherers: Economic Behavior in Bands.” In Economic Anthropology, (ed.) S. Plattner. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press.
Weissner, P. 1982. “Risk, Reciprocity and Social Influences on !Kung San Economics.” In Politics and History in Band Societies, (eds.) F. Leacock and R. B. Lee. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.