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Authors: Michael Shermer
God of the Government argument,
90
–91
Gogarten, Peter,
145
goose bumps,
19
gossip,
132
Gould, John,
xv
Gowaty, Patricia,
151
–52
Grant, Peter and Rosemary,
150
–51
Gray, Asa,
116
hair, body,
19
Hardison, Richard,
83
Hare, Brian,
14
Harper, Charles L., Jr.,
114
Harris, Sidney,
52
Harris polls,
129
Hatfield, Elaine,
134
Headquarters Nights
(Kellog),
27
Heltzer, Ruth,
38
–39
hemoglobin, evolution of,
73
–74
Herschel, John,
xvii
homeschooling,
92
Horner, Jack,
19
–22
Hox genes,
79
Hubble, Edwin,
159
human evolution, migrational history and modern,
148
–49
human genome,
79
human nature, fear of idea of fixed,
31
–32
Huxley, Aldous,
155
hypotheses, scientific method and,
97
Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth? Why Much of What We Teach About Evolution Is Wrong
(Wells),
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–84,
110
incipient stages, problem of,
68
–69
intellectual attribution bias,
38
alternative explanations, lack of,
86
debating,
see
debating Intelligent Design
funding of the movement,
112
–14
Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District
,
10
,
99
,
100
–105
scientific component of,
111
in search of the designer,
34
–44
teaching of,
see
teaching of Intelligent Design
intermediate fossil stages,
16
invisible hand, Adam Smith’s theory of,
136
–37
Irreducible Complexity argument,
66
–71
jawless lamphrey fish,
74
Johnson, Rob,
106
Journal of Researches
(Darwin),
xiii
Kansas State Board of Education,
xix
Keats, John,
158
Kellog, Vernon L.,
27
Kenyon, Dean,
102
Kettlewell, Bernard,
85
Kevorkian, Jack,
100
Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District
,
10
,
99
,
100
–105
Known and the Unknown principle,
49
Kristol, Irving,
31
Kurzweil, Ray,
41
laboratory experiments, inability to demonstrate evolution in,
75
–77
Lamia
(Keats),
158
Law of Conservation of Information (LCI),
71
–73
Lazcano, Antonio,
141
–42
Leonard, Jennifer A.,
14
Leopold, Nathan,
28
liberal creationism,
31
–32
Liebnitz, Gottfried,
126
Lilly, John C.,
155
Lincoln, Abraham,
132
lines of evidence,
12
Loeb, Richard,
28
Lubbock, John,
6
MacLellan Foundation,
112
Macmillan’s Magazine,
xvii
McNamara, Robert,
140
Maker of Heaven and Earth
(Gilkey),
43
Marburger, John H., III,
xix
Mars, evidence of life on,
11
–12
mass extinction events,
144
methodological naturalism, or, no miracles allowed,
52
–53
methodological supernaturalism,
53
Mill, John Stuart,
46
Miller, Kenneth,
102
miracles,
52
–53
“mitochondrial Eve,”
149
Monaghan, Tom,
100
monogamy:
monogamous species,
80
serial,
134
moon, dating of the,
16
Moon, Reverend Sun Myung,
110
Moore’s Law of computer power,
41
moral degeneration, equating evolution with,
31
moral values, evolution and,
130
–36
Mount Wilson Observatory,
159
–60
mouse genome,
79
multiverse (multiple universe),
58
–59
Murchison meteorite,
141
NASA,
11
–12
National Center for Science Education,
102
National Museum of Natural History,
14
National Religious Broadcasters,
108
direct evidence for,
150
–51
diseases as examples of,
75
microevolution and,
80
randomness argument,
82
–83
rules of,
7
sexual selection and,
151
–52
species distribution and,
47
Natural Theology: or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, Collected from the Appearances of Nature
(Paley),
4
,
6
Nature
,
85
Nebraska Man,
83
necessity and chance,
89
–90
Nelson, Paul,
106
–7
neo-Darwinism,
146
nihilism,
31
nipples, male,
18
“No Free Lunch theorems,”
72
nonfunctional pseudogenes,
74
“nonoverlapping magisteria” (NOMA),
120
null hypothesis,
121
–22