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The page numbers in this index refer to the printed version of this book. To find the corresponding locations in the text of this digital version, please use the “search” function on your e-reader. Note that not all terms may be searchable.
abortion, 242
abstinence-based education, 242
accommodationism, xv, 97â112
blaming religious harm on social problems, 53
and declining religious affiliation, 11, 16â17
Eastern faiths and, 75, 105â6
as harmful to science, 226â28
logical and mental compatibility arguments for, 99â100
NOMA argument, xviii, 4, 64â65, 106â12, 196, 226
overviews, xviiiâxix, 95â96, 97â98
political reasons for, 98, 138
psychological reasons for, 97â98, 138
religion's privileged position, xviii, 10
“science doesn't deal with the supernatural” argument, 112â20
scientists as promoters of, 6â9, 18â20, 93â94, 99â100
syncretic arguments for, 100â106
Templeton Foundation's influence, 8, 14, 17â20
See also
natural theology; theistic evolution; ways of knowing
Adam and Eve's historicity, 124â31
belief in, 55â58, 109, 124, 126
disproof of, 126â28
religious reactions to disproof of, 76â77, 128â31
Adam's Ancestors
(Livingstone), 56
adaptation(s), 77â78, 139, 140, 141â42
convergences, 142â44, 171â72
Adelson, Ted, 180
adoption, 175â76
African Americans
Black Muslim beliefs, 84
in Mormon priesthood, 71
afterlife, 22, 52â53, 80â81, 219, 220
Templeton Foundation's “Immortality Project,” 19
See also
hell; paradise
agnosticism, 9, 12, 16, 98
See also
nonbelievers
AIDS, 217
alchemy, 214
Alexander, Denis, 129â30
alternative medicine, 236, 238â39, 250â51
See also
homeopathy
altruism, 168, 169, 172â77
American Association for the Advancement of Science, 7, 8â9, 19
American Bible Challenge, The
(television show), 20
Amorth, Gabriele, 237â38
angels, literal belief in, 53, 58
Angier, Natalie, 26, 64
animal behavior, 171â72, 175â76, 184â85
anthropic principle (fine-tuning argument), xix, 21, 156, 159, 160â66, 227
apologetics, 66â67, 75, 77â81, 88â89, 153
apostasy, 11, 62, 85, 119â20, 251â52
Aquinas, 55, 57â58, 215
archaeology, 32, 39
Armstrong, Karen, 49
art history, 39â40
arts and humanities, xxi, 185â86, 190â94, 258, 261
science's relationship with, 198, 199â200, 201
Aslan, Reza, 43, 44, 55
Asser, Seth, 232
assisted dying, 243â45
atheism
atheists as accommodationists, 98
as crime, 252
in modern Europe, 254, 261
among modern philosophers, 110
New Atheism, xiiâxiii, 14, 20â21
public professions of, 98, 99â100
among scientists, xviii, 12â14, 95, 99â100, 216
See also
nonbelievers
atheist churches, 261
Atkins, Peter, 72
atomic weapons, 111, 152, 217, 218
Augustine, Saint, 55, 57, 58, 126
Aus, Mike, 128, 151
Australian animals, 142, 143, 149
authoritarianism, 220â21
authority
faith and, 25, 66, 68, 69â72, 186, 209
science and, 65, 70, 72, 205, 208â9
See also
scriptural literalism
Ayala, Francisco, 18, 75, 78, 148
Baggini, Julian, 51â52, 59, 62, 198â99
Barbour, Ian, 46, 135â36
Barker, Dan, 209
Beale, Nicholas, 79
beavers, 141
belief.
See
faith; religiosity; scriptural literalism
“belief in belief” argument, 98, 237, 253â54
Benedict XVI, Pope, 71, 75
Berlinski, David, xiv
Bernstein, Andrew, 58, 214â15
Besra, Monica, 117
Better Angels of Our Nature,
The
(Pinker), 170
Bible
historicity of biblical events, 44â45, 90â91
immorality in, 189
scientific test in First Book of the Kings, 39
See also
biblical literalism; biblical scholarship;
specific Bible stories and claims
biblical literalism, xiii, 49â53
cherry-picking, 74â77, 129â30
“scripture is not a textbook” argument, 54â57, 74â75
vs. metaphorical/allegorical interpretations, 44, 54â59, 74â75, 129â30
theologians' waffling about, 55â57, 62â63
See also
Adam and Eve's historicity; creationism; scriptural literalism;
other biblical stories and claims
biblical scholarship, 40, 90, 123â24, 199, 257â58
Big Bang, 28, 32, 146, 245
Biola University, 20
BioLogos Foundation, 8, 19, 46
Black Muslim beliefs, 84
Blank Slate,
The
(Pinker), 169, 172
blasphemy, 70
blood transfusions, 232
Bloom, Paul, 172
blue tits, 184â85
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 155
Book of Mormon, 62, 82, 121
books, banned by Catholic Church, 87, 215â16
Boudry, Maarten, 114
Boyer, Pascal, xxii, 182
Boyle, Robert, 99, 214
brain development and complexity.
See
consciousness; intelligence; reason
brain science.
See
neuroscience; psychology
Breaking the Spell
(Dennett), 21
Briggs, Russ, 262â63
British Centre for Science Education, 98
Brown, Donald, 169
Bruce and Stan's Pocket Guide to Talking with God
(Bickel and Jantz), 49
Bruno, Giordano, 215, 217
Bryan, William Jennings, 2
Buddhism, xvi, 22
Dalai Lama's accommodationism, 105â6
Bush, George W., 240
Caesar, Julius, 121
Calvin, John, 58, 178
Cambridge University's Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, 19, 129
capuchin monkeys, 171
Carrier, Richard, 214
Carroll, Sean, 165, 188
Catholicism and Catholic Church
adherence to monogenism and the historicity of Adam and Eve, 55â56, 126, 128â29
antipathy for reason and curiosity, 68â69
believers' rejections of church positions, 43
evidence standard for miracles, 116â17
exorcism, 237â38
on impossibility of faith/science conflict, 9â10
Index Librorum Prohibitorum
, 87, 215â16
moral code of, 22
National Catholic Almanac
on God's attributes, 48
Nicene Creed, 49â51, 70â71
position on euthanasia, 244â45
position on evolution, 43, 61, 132, 133, 136â37
position on mandatory HPV vaccination, 242
sources and purposes of Catholic dogma, 70â71
suppression of scientific inquiry, 2, 3, 5, 215â16, 217
transubstantiation, 61, 84
Vatican observatory, 69, 250
Vatican's authority, 70
certainty, 30, 37â38, 80, 195, 219â20
See also
doubt; faith
checker-shadow illusion, 180
chemistry, alchemy vs., 214
cherry-picking, 74â77, 129â30
child abuse and neglect, religious legal exemptions for, 231, 234â35
childbirth, medical neglect and, 232â33, 236, 262â63
children, medical neglect and, 229â34, 236, 237, 262â63
chimpanzees, 171, 185
China, ancient, science in, 212, 214, 215
Christian fundamentalism, 14, 88, 110
Christianity, xvi
fundamental claims of, 44â45, 54
seen as progenitor of science, 211â17
See also
Bible; Catholicism; faith; heresy; religion
entries
;
specific Christian beliefs, claims, and tenets
Christian Science, 22, 83, 108, 229â32, 234, 237
Clarke, Arthur C., 119
Clergy Letter Project, 8
climate change denial, xixâxx, 245â50, 251
Clinton, Bill, 240
cognition, human.
See
consciousness; intelligence; learning; reason
cognitive dissonance, 97, 123
Cohen, Nick, 218
Collins, Francis, 8, 99â100
on acceptance of physical laws as form of faith, 204â5
on “god of the gaps” arguments, 155â56
on morality as evidence for God, 168, 226
on religion as another way of knowing, 185
on religious claims as truth claims, 46
on theistic evolution, 78
Conan Doyle, Arthur, 223
confirmation bias, 29, 116, 123â24, 180, 238
See also
counterevidence
Confucianism, 65
consciousness, 15, 156, 158
See also
intelligence
consequentialism, 189â90
Consolmagno, Guy, 250, 259
Constantine I, emperor of Rome, 70
consubstantiation, 84
continental drift, 223, 224
convergences, 142â44, 171â72
Conway Morris, Simon, 100, 142â43
Cornell, Ezra, 3
Cornell University, 3
Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation, 248â49
cosmology, 32â33, 37, 162, 163
See also
Big Bang; universe
counterevidence, dismissal of, 10, 72â74
apologetics and rationalization, 66â67, 75, 77â81, 88â89, 153, 157
cherry-picking, 74â77, 129â30
global-warming denialism and, 246â47, 250
interpreting scripture as metaphor, 44, 54â59, 74â75, 129â30
making theological virtues of scientific explanations, 66â67, 77â78
and willingness to abandon faith, xivâxv, 119â20
See also
confirmation bias; falsifiability
counterevidence, in science.
See
doubt; falsifiability
Cowdery, Oliver, 121
Craig, William Lane, 73, 165â66
creationism
before Dawin, 92, 154
extent of belief in, xviii, 8â9, 59â60, 110
faith as explanation for, xiv, 60â61
and NOMA argument, 108, 109â10
as nonnegotiable belief, 61, 125
public education and, 2, 5, 7, 14â15
recent upsurge in, 14â15
scientific creationism, 14, 103â4
as testable claim, 107
See also
biblical literalism; evolution; intelligent design; theistic evolution
Crick, Francis, 216
criticality
faith and, 82â86, 121
in science, 26â27, 29, 34â35, 94
See also
doubt
crows, 184
cuckoo birds, 176
culture.
See
learning; social
entries
Dalai Lama, 105â6
D'Aleo, Joseph, 249
Darrow, Clarence, 2
Darwin, Charles, 81, 92, 118, 132, 154, 166â67
On the Origin of Species
, 2, 14, 33, 70, 154
Darwin, Emma, 81
Darwinism
(Wallace), 183
Davies, Paul, 205, 212
Dawkins, Richard, xii, 21, 103, 208, 209â10
Dawson, Charles, 223
Day, Tracy, 20
death, assisted, 243â45
Death of Ivan Ilyich, The
(Tolstoy), 191â92
deism, 42, 99, 135
Dembski, William, 54
Demon-Haunted World, The
(Sagan), 203
Dennett, Daniel, xxii, 21, 98, 201
Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, The
(Darwin), 166â67
determinism, 15â16
Deus absconditus
, 79â80
disease and healing
faith as solace for the terminally ill, 252â53
faith healing and medical neglect, xviii, xix, 83, 108, 229â39, 262â63
imputation of epidemics to God, 242â43
miracle healings, 116â17
religious suppression of science and, 217
science's advances and effectiveness, 206â7
testing the efficacy of prayer, 115â16
See also
medicine
disproof.
See
counterevidence; falsifiability
DNA and DNA structure, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 36, 37
Watson's and Crick's motivations for their work, 216
See also
genetics
dogma, 1â2, 3â4, 25, 43, 66, 70â71
See also
religious claims
doubt
faith and, 38, 66, 68
science and, 26â27, 34â35, 38, 65, 94
See also
certainty; uncertainty
Doubting Thomas, 68
Draper, John William, 3â4
Earth
age and origins of, 37, 146, 154, 245
global-warming denialism, xixâxx, 245â50, 251
inhospitability to humans, 164â65
Ebola virus, 243
Ecklund, Elaine, 100, 103
ecological niches, 141â42
economics, 40, 186, 187, 188, 199
Edamaruku, Sanal, 122
education
abstinence-based, and sexually transmitted diseases, 242
debates over the teaching of science, 2, 3â4, 5, 7, 11â12, 98, 103â4, 110, 134
religiosity and, 12â13
religious education, Templeton Foundation's funding of, 20
Ehrman, Bart, 62
Einstein, Albert, 101, 102, 209, 218, 256â57
See also
relativity theory
emotion(s)
the arts and, 190â91, 193â94
faith and, xv, 24, 44, 61â62
nonbelief and, xxi, 102â3
as subjective, 193â94, 195
empathy, 169, 170, 171, 175, 191â92
See also
altruism
End of Faith, The
(Harris), 21