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1 N D E X 401

Burger, Warren, 330

Burnell, Jocelyn Bell, 71

Bush, George (Senior), 43

Bush, George W., 88, 291-2,

303

Bush, Jeb, 296

Cairns-Smith, A. G., 129

Caligula, 268, 269, 272

Cambrian Explosion, 127

Camp Quest, 53

Campaign for Real Education,

340

Can We Be Good Without God?

(Buckman), 205, 214

caprylic acid, 372

cargo cults, 202-7

Carlin, George, 279

Carlson, Tucker, 292

Carr, Peter, 42

Carter, Brandon, 135

Catherine the Great, 84

Catholic Community Forum, 34

Catholic Encyclopedia, 32,

33-4, 359

Catholics for Christian Political

Action, 290

Cattolico, //, 313

cause: first, 155; uncaused, 77

Centro Espirita Beneficiente

Uniao do Vegetal, 22

Chagnon, Napoleon, 170

Challenging Nature: The Clash

of Science and Spirituality at

the New Frontiers of Life

(Silver), 392

Changing Faces of Jesus, The

(Vermes), 251

Chesterton, G. K., 298

children: abuse of, 315-25, 321;

adoption of, 220, 221; creationist

beliefs of, 180-1;

defence of, 326-31; dualist

beliefs of, 179, 180; education

of, 261, 307-8, 329-31,

331-7; gullibility of, 174-7,

179, 188; imaginary friends,

347-52; intentional stance of,

183; labelling by religion,

260-1, 337-40

Chinese junk: drawing, 194-5;

origami, 193-4

Chinese Whispers (Telephone),

194, 195-6

Christian Brothers, 316-17

Christian Coalition, 290

Christian Institute, 332

Christian Life City Church, 332

Christianity: adaptation for

Gentiles, 94; 'American

Taliban', 288, 289, 292-3;

beliefs, 178-9; conversion to,

287; foundation, 37, 213; fundamentalist,

95; in US, 40-3,

263, 319-20; religious education,

3, 306, 307-8; under

Hitler, 276-7

Christians: attacked in Nigeria,

25; correspondence with

author, 214; evangelical, 4,

32-3, 238-9; fundamentalist,

263, 336; lawsuits in US, 23;

'rapture', 302; violent, 301

Christmas story, 94

Church of England, lln, 41

Churchill, Randolph, 31

Churchill, Winston, 67, 289

circumcision, female, 329

Civilta Cattolica, 311

Clarke, Arthur C, 72, 202

cleaner fish, and reputation,

218n

Climbing Mount Improbable

(Dawkins), 121-2, 124

Collins, Francis, 99

colours, 372

Comte, Auguste, 48, 71

Confucianism, 37

Conniff, Richard, 215n

conquistador es, 312

consequentialism, 232, 233,

293-4

consolation, 352-60; by

discovery of a previously

unappreciated fact, 353-4;

direct physical, 353; theory,

168

Constantine, Emperor, 33, 37

Contact (Sagan), 72

Copenhagen interpretation, 365,

366

Corn well, R. Elisabeth, 101, 102

cosmological argument, 77

Coulter, Ann, 288, 321

Counterfeit World (Galouye), 73

Coyne, Jerry, 67, 133

'cranes', 2, 73, 155, 157, 158

Cranmer, Thomas, 414

Creation (Haydn), 87

Creation: Life and How to

Make It (Grand), 370

Creation Revisited (Atkins), 118

creationism: argument from

improbability, 113, 122;

debates with creationists

declined, 281; defences

against, 66-7; idea of 'irreducible

complexity', 129-33;

innate predisposition to, 180;

worship of gaps, 125-8

Creationism's Trojan Horse

(Forrest and Gross), 211

Cretaceous extinction, 47, 50

Crick, Francis, 99-100

Crumboblious Cutlets, 78

Crusades, 1, 312

cuckoos, 220

Culture and the Evolutionary

Process (Boyd and Richerson),

196

Curie, Marie and Pierre, 99

Da Vinci Code, The (Brown), 97

Dahl, Roald, 299

Daily Telegraph, 332

Darrow, Clarence, 52

Darwin, Charles: achievement,

119, 122, 367; attacks on,

213; career, 13; Darwinian

explanations, 168-9;

Darwinian imperative, 163-6;

destruction of argument from

design, 79, 114; influence on

religious belief, 98; natural

selection, 114, 116-18, 140,

155-8, 171-2, 182, 191; on

theory of descent with modification,

122-3, 125; Origin of

Species, 11, 122-3

Darwin, George, 99

Darwin's Cathedral (Wilson),

170

David, King, 93, 95

Davies, Paul, 19, 70

Dawkins' God: Genes, Memes

and the Origin of Life

(McGrath), 54

de la Bedoyere, Quentin, 46

death: attitudes to, 354-8; life

after, 356

death penalty, 291-2

deism, 18, 19, 38, 39, 42-3, 46

Demon-Haunted World, The

(Sagan), 366

Denmark, Muhammad cartoon

issue, 24-7

Dennett, Daniel: by-product

explanation of religion, 184;

classification of 'stances',

181-3; on argument from

improbability, 157; on belief,

14, 352; on cranes and skyhooks,

73; on intelligent

design, 68; on morality, 230;

on religious rituals, 164; on

Templeton Prize, 153; on

trickle-down theory of

creation, 117

deontology, 232

Desert Island Discs (BBC

Radio), 86

design, appearance of, 2, 79,

113, 116, 121, 157-8

design stance, 181-2, 183

Deuteronomy, book of, 246,

247

Deutsch, David, 365

Devil's Chaplain, A (Dawkins),

281,355

Dickinson, Emily, 361

Did Jesus Exist? (Wells), 97

Diderot, Denis, 18, 84

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective

Agency (Adams), 104

Distin, Kate, 196

DNA, 137, 191, 192, 361

Dobson, James, 177

doctors, 167

dodos, 267

dogs, 372-3

Doing Away with God?

(Stannard), 281

Dolittle, Doctor, 13

Dominion Theology, 319

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