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I N D E X 405

Papua New Guinea, aboriginal

peoples, 166

Parfitt, Derek, 399

particles, 147

Pascal, Blaise, 103-5, 249

Pascal's Wager, 103-5

patriotism, 232-3

Paul of Tarsus, 37, 93, 252,

253, 257, 276

peacock, tail of, 163

Peacocke, Arthur, 99, 150

Pearson, F. S., 191n

pedophilia, 315-16

Penn and Teller, 128-9

Permian extinction, 47, 50

Persinger, Michael, 168

personal incredulity, argument

from, 128, 129

Pharaoh, 242

Phelps, Fred, 290-1

Philip, Prince, 205-6

Phillips, Kevin, 286

physical stance, 181

Pinker, Steven, 168, 228

Pirsig, Robert M., 5

Pius X, Pope, 358

Pius XII, Pope, 277

placebo effect, 167-8

planets, numbers of, 137-8

Point Counter Point (Huxley),

84, 86

Poitier, Sidney, 271

Polkinghorne, John, 99, 147, 150

polytheism, 32-6

Potlatch Effect, 218-19

Potter, Gary, 290

prayer, 61-6

pre-Cambrian, fossil rabbits in,

128

Price of Honour (Goodwin),

302

Probability of God, The

(Unwin), 105

'pro-life' campaigns, 300

proofs of God's existence, 85

Providence, 277

psychology, evolutionary, 179

Pullman, Philip, 130n

pulsars, 71-2

purgatory, 358-60

quantum theory, 364-5

Quest in Paradise

(Attenborough), 202

Quirinius, governor of Syria, 93

Qur'an, 37, 307, 344

race, attitudes to, 265-7

Rahman, Abdul, 287

Raphael, 86

'Rapture Ready', 254

Rawls, John, 264

Reagan, Ronald, 288

reciprocation, 216-18, 220

Reconstructionists, 319

redwood, giant, 120

Rees, Martin, 14, 55-6, 141-5/

156

regress, 77

religion: as a by-product of

something else, 172-9;

cargo cults, 202-7; the

Darwinian imperative, 163-6;

direct advantages of, 166-9;

group selection, 169-72;

meme theory, 191-201;

psychologically primed for,

179-90; survival value of,

172

Religion Explained (Boyer), 36,

177

Religious Coalition for

Reproductive Choice, 297n

Renfrew, Colin, 170

replicators, 191, 192

reputation, 218-19

Revelation, book of, 257-8, 302

Richard Dawkins Foundation

for Reason and Science

(RDFRS), 7, 363

Richerson, Peter, 196

Ridley, Mark, 140

Ridley, Matt, 125, 218

Ridley, Nicholas, 314

RNA, 137

Roberts, Keenan, 319-20

Roberts, Oral, 32-3

Robertson, Pat, 239, 290

Robeson, Paul, 271

Robinson, Jackie, 271

Rocks of Ages (Gould), 55, 57

Roman 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, 167

Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare),

221, 222

Ronson, Jon, 368-9

Roosevelt, Franklin, 67

Root of All Evil? (Channel

Four), 1, 6, 318

Rothschild, Eric, 133

Rothschild, Lionel, 313

Royal Institution Christmas

Lectures, 363

Royal Society, 101-2, 281, 335

Rumsfeld, Donald, 268

Ruse, Michael, 67-9

Rushdie, Salman, 22, 25, 260

Ruskin, John, 118

Russell, Bertrand: briefly convinced

by ontological

argument, 81-2; courageous

views, 104; on death from

belief, 306; on outward belief

in religion, 97; teapot parable,

51-2, 53, 54, 69; view of

death, 354-5

Russian Orthodox Church, 273

Sacranie, Iqbal, 25-6, 287-8

Sacred Depths of Nature, The

(Goodenough), 13

sacrifice, human, 327-8

Saddam Hussein, 107, 247, 273

Sagan, Carl: Contact, 72;

Demon-haunted World, 366;

on life elsewhere in universe,

47, 69-70; on love of science,

366; on religion and the

Universe, 12; on views of

God, 19; Pale Blue Dot, 12,

361

St Matthew Passion (Bach), 86

Salmon of Doubt, The (Adams),

116

Sanhedrin, 254

Sarah, 241-2

Satan, 5, 91, 108, 304

Saudi Arabia: status of women,

302; Wahhabism, 249, 288

Scarborough, Rick, 23

Schrodinger, Erwin, 365-6

Schubert, Franz, 86, 87

Science and Christian Belief

(Polkinghorne), 150

Science of Good and Evil, The

(Shermer), 214, 226

Scientology, 201

Scopes, John, 284

Scott, Eugenie, 66

Seaton, Nick, 340

Secular Bible, The

(Berlinerblau), 95

secularism, 38-46

self-deception, 187

Selfish Gene, The (Dawkins),

196, 215n

Selfish Meme, The (Distin), 196

Seneca the Younger, 276

SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial

Intelligence), 70, 71, 72, 73,

138

Seven Clues to the Origin of

Life (Cairns-Smith), 129

sexual behaviour, 166, 169,

221-2

Shaheen, Naseeb, 344

Shaikh, Younis, 287

Shakespeare, William, 86, 87,

221-2, 243, 344

Shaw, George Bernard, 167

Sheen, Fulton J., 19

Shennan, Stephen, 196

Sherman, Robert, 43

Shermer, Michael, 102, 168,

184, 214, 226-7, 345, 361

Shorter Oxford Dictionary, 353

Shulevitz, Judith, 68n

Silver, L. M., 386, 392

sin, 251-2

Singer, Peter, 225-6, 271, 392

Sins of Scripture, The (Spong),

237

Sistine Chapel, 86

Six Impossible Things Before

Breakfast /Wolpert), 186-7

Skilling, Jeff, 215n

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