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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