46. “Breakthrough of the Year Newsfocus: Genomics Beyond Genes,” Science 338 (December 21, 2012): 1528.
47. Moran, “Intelligent Design Creationists Chose ENCODE as the #1 Evolution Story of 2012.”
48. Shapiro and von Sternberg, “Why Repetitive DNA Is Essential to Genome Function”; Von Sternberg and Shapiro, “How Repeated Retroelements Format Genome Function.” See also Von Sternberg, “On the Roles of Repetitive DNA Elements in the Context of a Unified Genomic-Epigenetic System.”
49. Todd, “A View from Kansas on That Evolution Debate.”
Chapter 20: What’s at Stake
1. Dawkins, The God Delusion; Hitchens, God Is Not Great; Stenger, God: The Failed Hypothesis.
2. Stenger, God: The Failed Hypothesis.
3. Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, 6.
4. Russell, quoted in Conant, Modern Science and Modern Man, 139–40.
5. Collins, The Language of God. See also Giberson, Saving Darwin; Miller, Finding Darwin’s God.
6. For prominent critics of the neo-Darwinian consensus, see Chapter 14, n. 42.
7. For some of the latest studies, see Chapter 19, n. 45.
8. As Alfred North Whitehead said, “When we consider what religion is for mankind and what science is, it is no exaggeration to say that the future course of history depends upon the decision of this generation as to the relations between them” (Science and the Modern World, 260).
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