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404 T H E G O D D E L U S I O NLincoln, Abraham, 266-7linkage, 197Lofting, Hugh, 13Loftus, Elizabeth, 316London bombings (July 2005),1, 303, 306Lords of the Golden Horn(Barber), 272Los Angeles Times, 23Losing Faith in Faith (Barker),325Lot, 239-40love, irrational, 184-6Luke, gospel of, 93-4, 95Luther, Martin, 190, 200, 275,285-6lying, 231McGrath, Alister, 54-5Mackie, J. L., 82-3McQuoid, Nigel, 332, 334, 336Madison, James, 43, 45Madrid bombings, 306Magdalene Asylums, 317Magdalene Sisters, The, 317magic, homoeopathic, 188Maimonides, Moses, 254, 256-7Malallah, Sadiq Abdul Karim,287Malcolm, Norman, 83Malcolm, Wayne, 332, 334Manx Shearwater, 87Mark, gospel of, 96, 320, 352marriage, 261-2martyrdom, 171, 305, 308Marx, Karl, 276Mary, see Virgin MaryMasih, Augustine Ashiq 'Kingri',287Matthew, gospel of, 93, 94, 95,275, 343Maxwell, James Clerk, 98Meaning of Life, The (MontyPython), 300Medawar, Jean, 298, 299-300Medawar, Peter, 154, 298,299-300Mein Kampf (Hitler), 273, 275Meme Machine, The(Blackmore), 193, 196memeplexes, 196-7, 198-200memes, 191-201; religious,199-200Men Who Stare at Goats, The(Ronson), 368Mencken, H. L., 27, 228, 230n,331Mendel, Gregor, 99Mendel's Demon (Ridley), 140Mensa Magazine, 103Micah's prophecy, 93, 94Michelangelo, 86Middle World, 367-8, 369-70,373-4Midianites, 245Mill, James, 232Mill, John Stuart, 4, 232Miller, Kenneth, 131Mills, David, 44, 84-5Mind of God, The (Davies), 19Miracle of Theism, The(Mackie), 83miracles, 58-60, 61Missionary Position, The(Hitchens), 292Mona Lisa, 89'Monkey Trial'(1925), 284monotheism, 37-8Montreal police strike, 228-9Mooney, C, 396Moore's Law, 272moral dilemmas, 222-6Moral Minds (Hauser), 214, 222morality, 206-7, 211-33Morisi, Anna, 311Mormonism, 36, 201Morris, Henry, 334Mortara, Edgardo, 311-15Moses, 73, 244-8, 255, 341moths, 172-4motive to be good, 231mover, unmoved, 77Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 86Mueller, Andrew, 25-6, 52Muhammad: cartoons depicting,24-7; foundation of Islam, 37,287Mullan, Peter, 317Mulligan, Geoffrey, 204multiverse theory, 145-7mutation rate, 192Myers, P. Z., 69, 319nMytton,Jill, 321-2, 325Nambas, 204-5Napoleon, 46n, 276National Academy of Sciences,100-1National Center for ScienceEducation (NCSE), 66-7natural selection: altruismfavoured by, 217, 221; as aconsciousness-raiser, 2,114-19, 134, 143-4; as'crane', 73, 140, 158; chanceand, 113, 140; children's viewof, 180; favouring rules ofthumb, 220-1; genetic, 201;improbability and, 113-14;replicators, 191; versusdesign, 2, 79, 114, 141Natural Theology (Paley), 79Nature, 100, 101Naughtie, James, 336Nautilus, 124Necker Cube, 89Nehru, Jawaharlal, 45New College, Oxford, 358-9New Orleans, 238-9New Republic, 269New Statesman, 22New Testament, 250-3New York Times, 44, 65, 68n,254, 290New Yorker, 305Newhart, Bob, 62, 64News of the World, 315, 316Newsday, 254Newton, Isaac, 98, 1221984 (Orwell), 286, 287nineteenth century, 156-7Nixon, James, 23Noah, 237-8, 334Nobel Prize, 100, 103, 142,153, 292NOMA (non-overlappingmagisteria), 54-61, 101, 153nNorthern Ireland: names offactions, 21, 339; religiousculture, 166; sectarianconflict, 1, 260; segregatededucation, 259Not By Genes Alone (Richersonand Boyd), 196nuclear fusion, 142nucleus, atomic, 142Numbers, book of, 245obedience, 174-6Observer, 281O'Casey, Sean, 235OFSTED, 335Old Testament, 31, 38, 108,237-50, 254, 286; God of, seeYahwehomnipotence, 77-8omniscience, 77-8On the Jews and their Lies(Luther), 275Onion, 288, 319nOperation Rescue, 292, 294Optimism: The Biology of Hope(Tiger), 187Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, The(Waugh), 350origami, 193-5Origin of Consciousness in theBreakdown of the BicameralMind, The (Jaynes), 350Origin of Species, The (Darwin),11,98, 122-3original sin, 252Origins of Virtue, The (Ridley),218Orwell, George, 287Our Cosmic Habitat (Rees), 55Owens, Jesse, 271Owens, Karen, 78Oxford Companion toPhilosophy, 108pacifism, 21paedomorphosis, 350pain, 169Paine, Thomas, 38Pakistan: Danish cartoon issue,24-5, 26; penalty for blasphemy,286-7Pale Blue Dot (Sagan), 12, 361Paley, William, 79Palin, Michael, 300pantheism, 18-19PAP (Permanent Agnosticism inPrinciple), 47-8, 51, 58
I N D E X 405Papua New Guinea, aboriginalpeoples, 166Parfitt, Derek, 399particles, 147Pascal, Blaise, 103-5, 249Pascal's Wager, 103-5patriotism, 232-3Paul of Tarsus, 37, 93, 252,253, 257, 276peacock, tail of, 163Peacocke, Arthur, 99, 150Pearson, F. S., 191npedophilia, 315-16Penn and Teller, 128-9Permian extinction, 47, 50Persinger, Michael, 168personal incredulity, argumentfrom, 128, 129Pharaoh, 242Phelps, Fred, 290-1Philip, Prince, 205-6Phillips, Kevin, 286physical stance, 181Pinker, Steven, 168, 228Pirsig, Robert M., 5Pius X, Pope, 358Pius XII, Pope, 277placebo effect, 167-8planets, numbers of, 137-8Point Counter Point (Huxley),84, 86Poitier, Sidney, 271Polkinghorne, John, 99, 147, 150polytheism, 32-6Potlatch Effect, 218-19Potter, Gary, 290prayer, 61-6pre-Cambrian, fossil rabbits in,128Price of Honour (Goodwin),302Probability of God, The(Unwin), 105'pro-life' campaigns, 300proofs of God's existence, 85Providence, 277psychology, evolutionary, 179Pullman, Philip, 130npulsars, 71-2purgatory, 358-60quantum theory, 364-5Quest in Paradise(Attenborough), 202Quirinius, governor of Syria, 93Qur'an, 37, 307, 344race, attitudes to, 265-7Rahman, Abdul, 287Raphael, 86'Rapture Ready', 254Rawls, John, 264Reagan, Ronald, 288reciprocation, 216-18, 220Reconstructionists, 319redwood, giant, 120Rees, Martin, 14, 55-6, 141-5/156regress, 77religion: as a by-product ofsomething else, 172-9;cargo cults, 202-7; theDarwinian imperative, 163-6;direct advantages of, 166-9;group selection, 169-72;meme theory, 191-201;psychologically primed for,179-90; survival value of,172Religion Explained (Boyer), 36,177Religious Coalition forReproductive Choice, 297nRenfrew, Colin, 170replicators, 191, 192reputation, 218-19Revelation, book of, 257-8, 302Richard Dawkins Foundationfor Reason and Science(RDFRS), 7, 363Richerson, Peter, 196Ridley, Mark, 140Ridley, Matt, 125, 218Ridley, Nicholas, 314RNA, 137Roberts, Keenan, 319-20Roberts, Oral, 32-3Robertson, Pat, 239, 290Robeson, Paul, 271Robinson, Jackie, 271Rocks of Ages (Gould), 55, 57Roman Catholic Church:bortion policy, 60, 291;abuse of children, 316-18,321; as memeplex, 200;doctrine of purgatory,358-60; Hitler's religion,273-4; marriage policy,261; miracle policy, 59-60;Mortara kidnap case,311-15; polytheism of,34-5; role of guilt, 167Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare),221, 222Ronson, Jon, 368-9Roosevelt, Franklin, 67Root of All Evil? (ChannelFour), 1, 6, 318Rothschild, Eric, 133Rothschild, Lionel, 313Royal Institution ChristmasLectures, 363Royal Society, 101-2, 281, 335Rumsfeld, Donald, 268Ruse, Michael, 67-9Rushdie, Salman, 22, 25, 260Ruskin, John, 118Russell, Bertrand: briefly convincedby ontologicalargument, 81-2; courageousviews, 104; on death frombelief, 306; on outward beliefin religion, 97; teapot parable,51-2, 53, 54, 69; view ofdeath, 354-5Russian Orthodox Church, 273Sacranie, Iqbal, 25-6, 287-8Sacred Depths of Nature, The(Goodenough), 13sacrifice, human, 327-8Saddam Hussein, 107, 247, 273Sagan, Carl: Contact, 72;Demon-haunted World, 366;on life elsewhere in universe,47, 69-70; on love of science,366; on religion and theUniverse, 12; on views ofGod, 19; Pale Blue Dot, 12,361St Matthew Passion (Bach), 86Salmon of Doubt, The (Adams),116Sanhedrin, 254Sarah, 241-2Satan, 5, 91, 108, 304Saudi Arabia: status of women,302; Wahhabism, 249, 288Scarborough, Rick, 23Schrodinger, Erwin, 365-6Schubert, Franz, 86, 87Science and Christian Belief(Polkinghorne), 150Science of Good and Evil, The(Shermer), 214, 226Scientology, 201Scopes, John, 284Scott, Eugenie, 66Seaton, Nick, 340Secular Bible, The(Berlinerblau), 95secularism, 38-46self-deception, 187Selfish Gene, The (Dawkins),196, 215nSelfish Meme, The (Distin), 196Seneca the Younger, 276SETI (Search for ExtraterrestrialIntelligence), 70, 71, 72, 73,138Seven Clues to the Origin ofLife (Cairns-Smith), 129sexual behaviour, 166, 169,221-2Shaheen, Naseeb, 344Shaikh, Younis, 287Shakespeare, William, 86, 87,221-2, 243, 344Shaw, George Bernard, 167Sheen, Fulton J., 19Shennan, Stephen, 196Sherman, Robert, 43Shermer, Michael, 102, 168,184, 214, 226-7, 345, 361Shorter Oxford Dictionary, 353Shulevitz, Judith, 68nSilver, L. M., 386, 392sin, 251-2Singer, Peter, 225-6, 271, 392Sins of Scripture, The (Spong),237Sistine Chapel, 86Six Impossible Things BeforeBreakfast /Wolpert), 186-7Skilling, Jeff, 215n
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404 T H E G O D D E L U S I O N
Lincoln, Abraham, 266-7
linkage, 197
Lofting, Hugh, 13
Loftus, Elizabeth, 316
London bombings (July 2005),
1, 303, 306
Lords of the Golden Horn
(Barber), 272
Los Angeles Times, 23
Losing Faith in Faith (Barker),
325
Lot, 239-40
love, irrational, 184-6
Luke, gospel of, 93-4, 95
Luther, Martin, 190, 200, 275,
285-6
lying, 231
McGrath, Alister, 54-5
Mackie, J. L., 82-3
McQuoid, Nigel, 332, 334, 336
Madison, James, 43, 45
Madrid bombings, 306
Magdalene Asylums, 317
Magdalene Sisters, The, 317
magic, homoeopathic, 188
Maimonides, Moses, 254, 256-7
Malallah, Sadiq Abdul Karim,
287
Malcolm, Norman, 83
Malcolm, Wayne, 332, 334
Manx Shearwater, 87
Mark, gospel of, 96, 320, 352
marriage, 261-2
martyrdom, 171, 305, 308
Marx, Karl, 276
Mary, see Virgin Mary
Masih, Augustine Ashiq 'Kingri',
287
Matthew, gospel of, 93, 94, 95,
275, 343
Maxwell, James Clerk, 98
Meaning of Life, The (Monty
Python), 300
Medawar, Jean, 298, 299-300
Medawar, Peter, 154, 298,
299-300
Mein Kampf (Hitler), 273, 275
Meme Machine, The
(Blackmore), 193, 196
memeplexes, 196-7, 198-200
memes, 191-201; religious,
199-200
Men Who Stare at Goats, The
(Ronson), 368
Mencken, H. L., 27, 228, 230n,
331
Mendel, Gregor, 99
Mendel's Demon (Ridley), 140
Mensa Magazine, 103
Micah's prophecy, 93, 94
Michelangelo, 86
Middle World, 367-8, 369-70,
373-4
Midianites, 245
Mill, James, 232
Mill, John Stuart, 4, 232
Miller, Kenneth, 131
Mills, David, 44, 84-5
Mind of God, The (Davies), 19
Miracle of Theism, The
(Mackie), 83
miracles, 58-60, 61
Missionary Position, The
(Hitchens), 292
Mona Lisa, 89
'Monkey Trial'(1925), 284
monotheism, 37-8
Montreal police strike, 228-9
Mooney, C, 396
Moore's Law, 272
moral dilemmas, 222-6
Moral Minds (Hauser), 214, 222
morality, 206-7, 211-33
Morisi, Anna, 311
Mormonism, 36, 201
Morris, Henry, 334
Mortara, Edgardo, 311-15
Moses, 73, 244-8, 255, 341
moths, 172-4
motive to be good, 231
mover, unmoved, 77
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 86
Mueller, Andrew, 25-6, 52
Muhammad: cartoons depicting,
24-7; foundation of Islam, 37,
287
Mullan, Peter, 317
Mulligan, Geoffrey, 204
multiverse theory, 145-7
mutation rate, 192
Myers, P. Z., 69, 319n
Mytton,Jill, 321-2, 325
Nambas, 204-5
Napoleon, 46n, 276
National Academy of Sciences,
100-1
National Center for Science
Education (NCSE), 66-7
natural selection: altruism
favoured by, 217, 221; as a
consciousness-raiser, 2,
114-19, 134, 143-4; as
'crane', 73, 140, 158; chance
and, 113, 140; children's view
of, 180; favouring rules of
thumb, 220-1; genetic, 201;
improbability and, 113-14;
replicators, 191; versus
design, 2, 79, 114, 141
Natural Theology (Paley), 79
Nature, 100, 101
Naughtie, James, 336
Nautilus, 124
Necker Cube, 89
Nehru, Jawaharlal, 45
New College, Oxford, 358-9
New Orleans, 238-9
New Republic, 269
New Statesman, 22
New Testament, 250-3
New York Times, 44, 65, 68n,
254, 290
New Yorker, 305
Newhart, Bob, 62, 64
News of the World, 315, 316
Newsday, 254
Newton, Isaac, 98, 122
1984 (Orwell), 286, 287
nineteenth century, 156-7
Nixon, James, 23
Noah, 237-8, 334
Nobel Prize, 100, 103, 142,
153, 292
NOMA (non-overlapping
magisteria), 54-61, 101, 153n
Northern Ireland: names of
factions, 21, 339; religious
culture, 166; sectarian
conflict, 1, 260; segregated
education, 259
Not By Genes Alone (Richerson
and Boyd), 196
nuclear fusion, 142
nucleus, atomic, 142
Numbers, book of, 245
obedience, 174-6
Observer, 281
O'Casey, Sean, 235
OFSTED, 335
Old Testament, 31, 38, 108,
237-50, 254, 286; God of, see
Yahweh
omnipotence, 77-8
omniscience, 77-8
On the Jews and their Lies
(Luther), 275
Onion, 288, 319n
Operation Rescue, 292, 294
Optimism: The Biology of Hope
(Tiger), 187
Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, The
(Waugh), 350
origami, 193-5
Origin of Consciousness in the
Breakdown of the Bicameral
Mind, The (Jaynes), 350
Origin of Species, The (Darwin),
11,98, 122-3
original sin, 252
Origins of Virtue, The (Ridley),
218
Orwell, George, 287
Our Cosmic Habitat (Rees), 55
Owens, Jesse, 271
Owens, Karen, 78
Oxford Companion to
Philosophy, 108
pacifism, 21
paedomorphosis, 350
pain, 169
Paine, Thomas, 38
Pakistan: Danish cartoon issue,
24-5, 26; penalty for blasphemy,
286-7
Pale Blue Dot (Sagan), 12, 361
Paley, William, 79
Palin, Michael, 300
pantheism, 18-19
PAP (Permanent Agnosticism in
Principle), 47-8, 51, 58
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