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by Michael Shermer


  Abanes, Richard

  Abbot, Edwin

  Adaptation and Natural Selection (Williams)

  Adapted Mind, The (Barkow, Tooby, and Cosmides)

  African Americans

  Ghost Dance of 1990s

  and religion

  afterlife

  belief in

  and near-death experience

  and talking with the dead

  age

  and belief in God

  and religiosity

  Age of Science

  agnosticism, agnostics

  agreeableness and religiosity

  Aish Ha Torah’s Discovery Seminars

  alchemy

  Alcock, John

  Aldrich, Ira

  Alexander, Richard

  alien abductions

  Allen, Steve

  Altai people

  alternative medicine

  altruism

  Ambulocetus natans

  American Booksellers Association

  American Enterprise Institute

  American Men and Women of Science

  amygdala

  Anchor Bible Dictionary, The

  Ancient Myth and Modern Man (Larue)

  Angeles, Peter

  angels

  belief in

  Animal Behavior (Alcock)

  animal myths

  Annals of the Old Testament, Deduced from the First Origin of the World (Ussher)

  Anselm, Saint

  Anthology of Atheism and Rationalism, An (Stein)

  Anthropic Cosmological Principle, The (Tipler)

  Anthropic Principle

  Anthropological Studies of *Religion (Morris)

  Antichrist

  anxiety

  apocalypse, apocalypticism

  Apocalypse Now (film)

  Apollonius of Tyana

  apologetics

  Applewhite, Marshall

  Aquinas, St. Thomas

  Arbib, Michael

  Archilochus

  arguments from ignorance

  Aristotle

  Armageddon

  Arnold, Matthew

  art of the insoluble

  Asimov, Isaac

  astrology

  astronomers

  and belief in God

  astronomy

  Atheism (Martin)

  Atheism (Smith)

  atheism, atheists

  Atlantis

  Atlas Shrugged (Rand)

  attribution biases

  in religous beliefs

  attribution theory

  Augustine, Saint

  Australopithecines.

  Australopithecus africanus

  Axelrod, Robert

  Azande

  baby-boomer generation

  Baha’i sect

  Bahai Under the Provisions of the Covenant

  Barkow, Jerome

  “Barn, The” (La Crescenta, Calif.)

  Barna, George

  Barnes, Michael

  baseball

  as a system of change

  superstitions

  Basinger, David

  “Battle Hymn of the Republic

  B.C.–A.D. chronological system

  beautiful people myth

  Beauvoir, Simone de

  behavioral geneticists

  and religiosity

  Behe, Michael

  Belief Engine

  belief formation

  belief in God, see God, belief in

  Bentley, Richard

  Beowulf

  Bergman, Gerald

  Berlin Wall

  Bettinger, Robert

  Beyond the Cosmos (Ross)

  biases in attribution

  Bible

  authorship of

  Heaven on Earth metaphors

  science facts revealed in

  study of

  Bible Code, The (Drosnin)

  Bible Prophecy (Callahan)

  biblical literalism

  Big Foot, Chief

  Binford, Lewis

  bioaltruism

  Bio-Cultural Pyramid

  biologists and belief in God

  Biology of Moral Systems, The (Alexander)

  Biophilia (Wilson)

  birth order and openness to experience

  Bishop. George

  black religious experience

  Black Coyote

  Blackmore, Susan

  Blanke, Olaf

  body and soul

  Boggs, Wade

  Book of Prophecies (Columbus)

  book publishing

  Born to Rebel (Sulloway)

  Bouchard, Thomas

  Boyer, Pascal

  brain

  chemistry of

  circuits of

  evolution of

  God module in

  and language

  modular view of

  and number of relationships

  and religiosity

  and storytelling

  Branch Davidians

  Brand, Chris

  Brasher, Brenda

  Brett, George

  Brief History of Time. A (Hawking)

  Brierre de Boismont, Alexandre

  Broca’s area

  Brodie, Richard

  Brown, Denise

  Browning, Robert

  Brueghel, Pieter, the Elder

  Brugger, Peter

  Brunvand, Jan Harold

  Bryan, William Jennings

  Buckley, William F.

  Buddha from Brooklyn, The (Sherrill)

  Burgess Shale

  Buss. Leo

  butterfly effect

  Callahan, Tim

  Calvin, John

  Campbell, Joseph

  capitalism

  Capra, Frank

  Carew, Rod

  Cargo Cult Ghost Dance

  Carlyle, Thomas

  Carnegie Commission study of scientists and religiosity (1969)

  Casti, John

  Catholicism, Catholics

  belief in afterlife

  belief in evolution

  belief in God

  recruitment and conversion

  Century’s End (Schwartz)

  Chagnon, Napoleon

  chain letters

  Chalice and the Blade, The [Eisler)

  chance

  chaos, chaos theory

  Chartres Cathedral

  Chaucer, Geoffrey

  chemistry

  Chen, Heng-ming

  Chiang, Chin-Hung

  Chot Chelpan

  Christian atheists

  Christ’s Soon Return

  church attendance

  and belief in God

  and openness to experience

  and religiosity

  church membership rates

  Church of England

  Church Universal and Triumphant

  Churchill, Winston

  Churching of America, 1776–1990, The

  City of God, The (Augustine)

  Clarke, Arthur C.

  Clearwater, Florida

  Virgin Mary appearance

  Clough, Arthur H.

  cognitive fluidity

  Cohen, Jack

  cold readings

  Coles, Michael

  Columbus, Christopher

  conditional apocalypticism

  conflicting-worlds model of science and religion

  conscience

  conscientiousness

  and religiosity

  conservatives

  and belief in God

  Consilience (Wilson)

  consilience of inductions

  Consolmagno, Guy

  Constantine

  contingency

  and freedom

  and Homo sapiens

  and necessity

  and problem of emphasis

  and problem of meaning

  contingent-necessity

  convention

  and observance of religion

  convergence of evidence<
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  Conversations with God (Walsh)

  cooperation

  and human evolution

  Copernicus

  Copper Eskimo

  Coppola, Francis Ford

  correlation coefficient (r)

  correlations

  Cosmides, Leda

  cosmogonies

  cosmogony myths

  cosmological arguments for God’s existence

  cosmology

  see also New Cosmology

  Cosmos (TV series)

  courage, moral

  cranes

  see also skyhooks

  creation

  creationism

  in public schools

  see also New Creationism

  creationists

  example of human eye evolution

  on science

  Creator, and the Cosmos, Creation and Time, The (Ross)

  Credo Quia Consolans argument (for God’s existence)

  Crichton, Michael

  Critiques of God (Angeles)

  Cro-Magnons

  cryonics

  cryptozoology

  cult leaders

  cults, fringe

  cultural evolution

  culture and genes

  cyberspirituality

  Damas, David

  danger and magic

  D’Aquili, Eugene

  Darwin, Charles

  Darwin on Trial (Johnson)

  Darwinian literalists

  Darwinian Revolution

  Darwin’s Black Box (Behe)

  Davies, Paul

  Dawkins, Richard

  Deacon, Terrence

  dead, talking to

  death

  of God

  and science

  Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The (Gibbon)

  deists

  Dembski, William

  Dempsey, Father Robert

  Dennett, Daniel

  Descartes, René

  Design/Teleological argument (for God’s existence)

  Desmond, Adrian

  destruction-redemption myth

  determinism

  Deutsch, David

  devil

  Diamond, Jared

  Diana, Princess

  Dickerson, Wizard

  Diprima, Dominque

  Disappearance of God, The (Friedman)

  Disch, Thomas

  dispositional attribution

  distracted atheists

  divine intervention

  Does God Exist? (Taylor)

  domain-general processors

  domain-specific processors

  Doors, The

  Dow Jones Industrial Average

  Downs, Hugh

  dragon myths

  Draper, John William

  dreams and storytelling

  Drosnin, Michael

  Dunbar, Robin

  Dürer, Albrecht

  Durkheim, Émile

  Dyson, Freeman

  Earth

  age of

  ebene powder

  Ebenezer Baptist Church

  Ecker, Don

  economic theories of religion

  Edson, Hiram

  education

  and belief in God

  and religiosity

  Eibl-Eibesfeldt, Irenäus

  Eighteenth Brumaire, The (Marx)

  Eisler, Riane

  Eliade, Mircea

  Eliot, T. S.

  Elson, John T.

  emotions and beliefs

  “End, The” (song)

  End of History, The (Fukuyama)

  End of the World as We Know It, The (Wojcik)

  end-times

  Entwined Lives (Segal)

  environment

  and genes

  and magical thinking

  and religiosity

  environment of evolutionary adaptation (EEA)

  environmentalists

  epigenetic rules

  for mythmaking

  equalitarian partnership model

  eschatology

  eschatology myths

  Essay on Man (Pope)

  ethical behavior

  ethology

  Ethology (Eibl-Eibesfeldt)

  Evans-Pritchard, Edward E.

  “Eve of Destruction” (song)

  Evidence Amendment Act (1869)

  Evidence That Demands a Verdict (McDowell)

  Evil, Problem of

  evils, historical

  evolution

  of brain

  and contingent-necessity

  of the eye

  fossil record

  human

  evolution theory

  acceptance by Pope John Paul II

  and belief in God

  and religion

  evolutionary biology

  evolutionary history

  Evolutionary Level Above Humans, The

  evolutionary psychology

  Evolutionary Stable Strategy

  exclusive fitness

  Existence of God, The (Hick)

  existentialist atheists

  extinction, mass

  Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Mackay)

  extrasensory perception (ESP)

  extraversion and religiosity

  Extropians

  Extropy Institute

  eye

  evolution of

  Eysenck, Hans

  faith

  in God

  and God’s existence

  and miracles

  negation of

  and reason

  and science

  faith, leap of

  falsehoods

  see also thinking errors and hits

  falsifiability problem

  family

  Farrakhan, Louis

  feedback loop

  feminism

  Festinger, Leon

  Fideism argument (for God’s existence)

  fideism, fideists

  Fides et Ratio of the Supreme Pontiff to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Relationship Between Faith and Reason (John Paul II)

  Firing Line (TV program)

  First Cause argument (for God’s existence)

  First Three Minutes, The (Weinberg)

  First Vatican Council

  Five Factor Model (of personality)

  Flanagan, Owen

  Flatland (Abbot)

  Flew, Antony

  Fludd, Robert

  FM-2030

  Fontana, Walter

  fossil record

  Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

  Franz, Frederick

  Franz Ferdinand, Archduke

  Frazer, James

  Free Will, Problem of

  freedom and contingency

  Freud, Sigmund

  Friedman, Richard Elliott

  Fukuyama, Francis

  Full House (Gould)

  Fuller, R. Buckminster

  “Function of General Laws in History, The” (Hempel)

  fundamentalism, Christian

  fundamentalism, paranormal

  fuzzy logic, science of

  Fuzzy Thinking (Kosko)

  Galileo

  Gallup poll of belief in supernatural (1991)

  gambling as a form of magical thinking

  Gardner, Martin

  Gazzaniga, Michael

  Geertz, Clifford

  Geivett, Dr. Doug

  gender

  and belief

  and belief in God

  and religiosity

  Genesis myth

  General Social Surveys (1973–1994)

  gene-culture coevolution

  genes

  and culture

  and environment

  and religiosity

  and religious attitudes

  Genesis and science

  genetic programming

  of belief in God

  Ghiselin, Michael

  Ghost Dance

  ghosts<
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  Gibbon, Edward

  Gibson, Charles

  Gingrich, Newt

  Glaber, Radulfus

  global intelligence

  glorious contingency

  Glynn, Patrick

  God

  death of

  defining

  described by believers

  disbelief in

  existence of

  hidden face of

  insolubility of

  as a meme

  nonbelief in

  pattern of

  philosophical argument for existence of

  and religion

  scientific arguments for existence of

  seeking pattern of

  social indicators of

  synonyms for

  understanding existence or nonexistence of

  God, belief in

  and age

  as art of the insoluble

  and church attendance

  correlations, data, and statistics on

  and education

  evolution of

  and gender

 

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