Why Darwin Matters (31 page)

diaries, notebooks, and journals of,
xiii
,
xiv
,
xv
,
xvi

Galápagos legend,
xiv
–xv

Origin of Species
(Darwin),
see On the Origin of Species
(Darwin)

path to arriving at theory of evolution,
xv
–xvi,
116
–19

religious attitudes,
116
–19

study of theology,
5
,
116
–17

Darwin, Emma,
119

Darwin, Erasmus,
116

Darwin, Robert,
116

Darwin on Trial
(Johnson),
52
–53

Darwin’s Dictum,
2

data:

hypothetico-deductive method and,
21

relative roles of theory and,
2
,
3

dating techniques,
15
–16

Davis, Percival,
102

Dawkins, Richard,
7
,
9
,
14
–15,
29
,
45
,
73
,
160

Day-Age creationists,
167

debating Intelligent Design,
45
–88

Anthropic Principle,
54
–59

Conservation of Information,
71
–75

Design Inference,
59
–62

Explanatory Filter,
62
–65

icons of evolution are fallacies, fakes, or frauds,
83
–87

Irreducible Complexity,
66
–71

Microevolution and Macroevolution,
77
–80

positives of,
88

randomness cannot produce complex specified design,
82
–83

reasons for,
46
–47

Second Law of Thermodynamics argument,
81
–82

skeptical principals for,
48
–53

“we cannot observe evolution” argument,
75
–77

deception detection,
136

Dembski, William,
62
–63,
71
–73,
106
–7,
110
,
111

Democrats, acceptance of evolution by,
129

Demon-Haunted World, The
(Sagan),
154

Descent of Man
(Darwin),
130
–31

Design Inference argument,
59
–62

Design Revolution, The
(Dembski),
111

differential reproductive success,
7

Digging Dinosaurs
(Horner),
19
–20

dinosaurs,
69

Discovery Institute,
31
,
112
–14

diseases as example of natural selection,
75

disulfide bonds,
76
,
77

DNA:

Law of Conservation of Information and,
74
–75

unsolved questions on origin of,
141
–42

Dobzhansky, Theodosius,
xxii

dogs, evolution of,
13
–14

E. coli
bacterium,
75

ear muscles, extrinsic,
19

earth, dating of the,
16

creationists and,
30

Edwards v. Aguillard
,
96
–99,
102
,
108

Either-or Fallacy,
50
,
63
,
95

Eldredge, Niles,
11

emergent property,
64
,
65
,
160

Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, An
(Hume),
52

entropy,
81

Esalen Institute,
155

eubacteria,
70

eugenics, social Darwinism and,
26
–27

eukaryote cells,
73
,
86
,
143
,
145
,
146

evangelical Christians,
xx
–xxi,
107
,
112

acceptance of evolution by,
127
–28

evidence, convergence of,
see
convergence of evidence

Evolutionary creationists,
167

evolutionary developmental biology,
78
–79

“evolution in action” argument,
75
–77

evolution (theory of evolution):

acceptance of,
21
–22,
29
–30,
126
–30

compatibility with religion,
113
,
114
,
122
–25,
138

convergence of evidence,
12
–15,
51
,
87

cultural influence of,
xxii

current controversies,
141
–53

Darwin and,
see
Darwin, Charles

definitions of evolution,
6

demographics and acceptance of,
128
–29

fossil evidence,
see
fossils

as historical science,
2
,
9

initial response by Shermer to,
xvi
–xvii,
1

key tenets of,
6
–7

major shifts in evolution, explanations for,
144
–45

natural selection,
see
natural selection

popular lack of knowledge about,
32
–33

preponderance of evidence,
xxi

reasons Christians and conservatives should accept,
129
–38

reasons for resisting truth of,
30
–32

scientific community’s acceptance of,
xvii
,
21
–22,
126
–27

significance of,
xxii

social Darwinism and,
26
–27

tests of,
see
tests of evolutionary theory

unsolved problems in,
141
–53

exaption,
68
–69

exoheresies,
88

expanding universe,
58
–59,
159

explanations, scientific vs. supernatural,
98
,
162

Explanatory Filter argument,
62
–65

eyelid, third,
19

eyes,
117

as evidence of natural design,
17

evolutionary history of,
16
–17,
78
–79,
82
–83

irreducible complexity argument and,
66
,
69
–70

photoreceptive structures,
78

facts, scientific method and,
97

fallacies of evolution argument,
83
–87

family values,
130

Fawcett, Henry,
xvii
,
1

Fedonkin, Mikhail,
143
–44

Feynman, Richard,
89
,
155

Fieldstead & Company,
112
,
114

fine tuning argument,
54
–59

Flores Island, discovery of fossil dwarf humans on,
147
–48

Forrest, Barbara,
102

Forster, Peter,
149

Fortey, Richard,
144

Fossil Fallacy,
51

fossils,
9
,
75
,
86

dating of,
16

dogs, ancestry of,
14

intermediate stages,
16

transitional,
9
–11,
14
,
15
,
51
,
69
,
146
–47

founder population,
10

Franks, Bobby,
28

functional adaptation,
65

funding of Intelligent Design movement,
112
–14

Futuyma, Douglas,
152

Galápagos Islands,
xiii
–xiv,
139
–40

finches of,
xv
,
150
–51

Gallup polls,
33

Gap creationists,
167

Garden of Eden,
148

Genesis, biblical story of,
148

scientific revision of,
162
–65

Genetic Assisted Design (GAD),
77

gene transfer, horizontal,
145

genotypes,
15

geological evidence of theory of evolution,
16

Gilkey, Langdon,
43

God:

belief in,
see
religion; science and religion, relationship between

existence of, question of,
43
–44

Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (ETI) and,
40
–44

faith and revelation as avenue to,
44

reasons for,
43

reasons for belief in,
34
–38

see also
science and religion, relationship between

God of the Gaps argument,
52