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Index

A for Andromeda (Hoyle), 72

Aaron, 244-5

Abbott, Edwin, 372

Abimelech, King of Gerar, 242

abortion, 60, 291-8

Abraham, 36, 241-3, 251, 265

absolutism, 232, 286-8, 293-4

abuse: mental, 317-25, 325,

337; physical, 315-18, 321

Achilles and the tortoise, 81-2

Adam and Eve, 251-3

Adams, Douglas, 20, 104,

116-17,364

Adams, John, 40, 43, 45, 97

Adolf Hitler: The Definitive

Biography (Toland), 274

advertising, 163-4

Affirmations (Kurtz), 361

Afghanistan, 287

Agnew, L. R., 299

agnosticism, 2, 46-54, 109

AIDS, 288, 289, 290, 291

Alberts, Bruce, 101

Alexander, Cecil Frances, 31

Allah, 31, 186, 213

Allen, Woody, 118-19

altruism, 216-21

American Heart Journal, 63

American Theocracy (Phillips),

286

Amish, 329-31

Amnesty International, 326

Ampleforth, Abbot of, 356

Angier, Natalie, 43-4

Animal Liberation (Singer), 271

Annunciation (Raphael), 86

Anselm of Canterbury, 80-4

Anstey, R, 180

'Answers in Genesis', 101

anthropic principle: cosmological

version, 141-51; planetary

version, 134-41

Antonelli, Cardinal, 313

Antrim, Earls of, 261

apostasy, 287-8

Aquinas, Thomas, 77-80, 107,

150, 320-1

argument, author's central,

157-8

arguments for the existence of

God: Aquinas' 'proofs',

77-80, 107; Bayesian, 105-9;

comical, 85; cosmological, 77;

from admired religious scientists,

97-103; from beauty,

86-7; from degree, 78-9;

from design, 79, 107; from

personal 'experience', 87-92;

from personal incredulity,

128, 129; from scripture,

92-7; ontological, 80-5, 107;

Pascal's wager, 103-5

Arian heresy, 33

Army of God, 295

art, 200n

astronomers, 55-7

atheism: attitudes to death,

357n; George Bush Sr's view

of, 43; consciousness-raising

messages, 1-4; conversion to,

5-6; Founding Fathers, 39,

43; fundamentalist, 282;

Hitler and Stalin, 272-8; hostility

to religion, 281-2;

numbers of atheists, 4-5;

pride in, 3-4; view of God's

existence, 50-1, 109

Atheism: A Very Short

Introduction (Baggini), 13

Atheist Universe (Mills), 44, 84

Atkins, Peter, 64, 118

atonement, 252, 253

Atran, Scott, 36, 177, 184

Attenborough, David, 119,

202-5, 335

Attila the Hun, 269

Augustine, 132, 251-2

Augustus Caesar, 93, 94

Aunger, Robert, 196

Australian aboriginal tribes, 165

Australopithecus afarensis, 301

Baal, 31, 53, 104, 244, 245-6

babblers, 219

bacteria: flagellar motor, 130-2;

TTSS, 131-2

Badawi, Zaki, 25

Baggini, Julian, 13

baptism, 311-15

barchan, 370-1

Baring, Maurice, 298, 299

Barker, Dan, 324-5

Barrett, James, 295

Barrett, Justin, 184

Barrow, John, 135

Barth, Bob, 66

bats, 217, 372, 373

Baudouin I, King of the

Belgians, 59-60

Bayes' Theorem, 105-8

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 86,

108,298-9

Behe, Michael, 129-31, 133

Beit-Hallahmi, Benjamin, 100,

102

beliefs, false, 355-6

Bell, Paul, 103

Belloc, Hilaire, 298

Benson, Herbert, 62-3, 65

Bentham, Jeremy, 232, 297

Berlinerblau, Jacques, 95

Bethea, Charles, 63

Bethlehem, 93, 94

Betjeman, John, lln, 41, 261

Bhagavad Gita, 344

Bible, 57, 237, 327, 340-3; see

also New Testament, Old

Testament

Bible Literacy Report, 344

Bierce, Ambrose, 60

'big crunch', 145

bin Laden, Osama, 303-4, 306

Binker, 347-9

Biophilia (Wilson), 361

Black Gang, The ('Sapper'), 266

black holes, 146

Blackmore, Susan, 193, 196

Blair, Tony, 303, 331, 334, 335,

336

Blaker, Kimberly, 288

Blank Slate, The (Pinker), 228

blasphemy, 286-8

Bletchley Park, 289

Blind Watchmaker, The

(Dawkins), 372

Bloom, Paul, 179, 180, 183, 184

Boeing 747, 113, 122, 139, 141,

151,157

Bohr, Niels, 365n

Bondi, Hermann, 281

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 125

Bouquet, A. C, 269

Bowen, Charles, 343

Boyd, Robert, 196

Boyer, Pascal, 36, 177-8, 184

Boykin, William G., 288

Brahma, 33, 213

brain: evolution of, 179, 366-7,

371; 'god centre' in, 168-9

Bray, Michael, 238, 294-5, 297

Breaking the Spell (Dennett),

230,352

Brer Rabbit, 68-9

Brief History of Time, A

(Hawking), 13

Brights campaign, 338

Britton, John, 295, 296

Brockman, John, 152

Brodie, Richard, 196

Brown, Andrew, 332-3

Brown, Dan, 97

Bruce, Lenny, 251

Bryan, William Jennings, 284

Bryan College, 284

Buckman, Robert, 205, 214

Buckner, Ed, 40

Buddhism, 37, 200, 394

Bullock, Alan, 273

Bunting, Madeleine, 68

Bunuel, Luis, 233

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