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

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, Il, 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 ofJesus, 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, 11n, 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

conquistadores, 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

Donne, John, 221

Dornan, Bob, 288

Dostoevsky, Feodor, 227

Douglas, Stephen A., 267

Douglas, William O., 330

Downey, Margaret, 45

Drake Equation, 70-1

Dreams of a Final Theory (Weinberg), 12

Drummond, Bulldog, 266

dualism, 179-81, 183

Dutchman's Pipe, 120

Dyson, Freeman, 144, 152

Earth, orbit of, 135-6

Edge website, 152

education: Amish, 329-31; creationist, 331-7; religious, 341-4; segregated, 261; teaching that faith is a virtue, 307-8

Ehrman, Bart, 95

Einstein, Albert: mask of, 89; on morality, 226; on personal God, 9, 15; on purpose of life, 209; religious views, 13, 14, 15–19, 20

Eisenhower, Dwight, 289

Electric Meme, The (Aunger), 196

electrons, 147-8, 363-4

Elizabeth II, Queen, 205-6

embryos, human, 291-8, 300

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 29

Emmanuel College, Gateshead, 331-7

End of Faith, The (Harris), 88, 278

Engel, Gerhard, 274

Enigma code, 289

eucaryotic cell, 140

Euler, Leonhard, 84

euthanasia, 293, 356-7

evidence, 282-3

evil, existence of, 108

evolution: belief in, 282-3; continuity, 300-1; design and, 61, 79, 158; evolved organs, 129, 134; process of, 122, 134-5

Evolution vs Creationism (Scott), 66

Exclusive Brethren, the, 321-2

Existence of God, The (Swinburne), 64n

Extended Phenotype, The (Dawkins), 165

eyes, 123-4, 139, 179

Fabric of Reality, The (Deutsch), 365

faith, 308

Falwell, Jerry, 289

Faraday, Michael, 98

Fatima vision (1917), 91-2

Faulhaber, Michael, 277

Female of the Species, The ('Sapper'), 266

feminism, 115-16

Feynman, Richard, 365

Finding Darwin's God (Miller), 131

Fisher, Helen, 184-5

Flatland (Abbott), 372

Flemming, Brian, 211-12

Flew, Antony, 82n

'Flood geology', 334