Flying Spaghetti Monster, 53, 55

Flynn, Tom, 44n, 94

Forrest, Barbara, 211

fossil record, 127-8

Founding Fathers, 38-46

Franklin, Benjamin, 43

Fraser, Giles, 41

Fraunhofer, Joseph von, 48

Frayn, Michael, 183

Frazer, James, 36, 188

Free Inquiry, 6–1, 44n, 94, 96n

Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), 212

Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism (Jacoby), 38

Freethought Society of Greater Philadelphia, 45

Freethought Today, 212

French, Peter, 336

Frisch, Karl von, 182

Frum, John, 203-6

fundamentalism, 282-6

Fundamentals of Extremism, The (Blaker), 288

Galileo, 369

Galouye, Daniel E, 73

Galton, Francis, 61

Gandhi, Mohandas, 45, 250, 271

gaps, worship of, 125-34

Gasking, Douglas, 83-4

Gaunilo, 83

Gaylor, Anne, 395

Gell-Mann, Murray, 146

gene, selfish, 215-16

gene cartels, 197-8

generosity, 218-19, 220, 221

genes, 191, 192, 197-8

Genes, Memes and Human History (Shennan), 196

Genesis, book of, 237-8, 240, 242, 334

genetic drift, 189

Genghis Khan, 268-9

Gershwin, George, 94

ghosts, 90-1

Gillooly, Robert, 94

Glenn, Norval D., 261

Glover, J., 393

God, Chance and Necessity (Ward), 149-50

'god centre' in brain, 168-9

God Hypothesis: argument from improbability, 114; definition, 31, 38, 58, 71; goodness issue, 108; invulnerability to science, 66; probability of, 46, 114; simplicity, 149; untenable, 158; versions, 32

God Who Wasn't There, The (Flemming), 211

Goebbels, Josef, 277

Goering, Hermann, 274

Golden Bough, The (Frazer), 36, 188

golden calf, 244-5

Goldilocks zone, 135-7, 143, 147

Goldwater, Barry, 39

Golgi Apparatus, 283-4, 285

Good Samaritan, 215, 220

Goodenough, Ursula, 13

Goodwin, Jan, 302

gospels, 92-7, 152

Gott, John William, 288

Gould, Stephen Jay, 55, 57-8, 60, 71, 284

Graham, Billy, 95

Grand, Steve, 370, 371

Graves, Robert, 252

Gray, Muriel, 304, 394

Grayling, A. C., 231, 393

Great Beethoven Fallacy, 298-300

Great Vowel Shift, 189, 198-9

Greer, Germaine, 25

Gregory, Richard, 389

Gregory the Miracle Worker, 34

Gross, Paul, 211

group selection, 169-72

Guardian, 41, 133, 294, 332

HADD (hyperactive agent detection device), 184

Haggard, Ted ('Pastor Ted'), 319, 320

Haitian Voodoo, 326

Haldane, J. B. S., 128, 364, 372, 374

Halley's Comet, 136

hallucinations, 88, 154, 349-51

Hamilton, W. D., 216

Hari, Johann, 302

Harries, Richard, 335

Harris, Sam: on bin Laden, 303-4; on end-of-world beliefs, 302; on nakedness, 252; on religion and crime, 229-30; on religion and sanity, 88; on religion and war, 278; on suicide bomber, 304-5

Hartung, John, 253, 254-5, 257-8

Has Science Found God? (Stenger), 118

Hassan, Nasra, 305

Haught, James, 98

Hauser, Marc, 214, 222-6

Hawking, Stephen, 13, 14, 18

Haydn, Josef, 87

HealthFreedomUSA, 369

hell, 319-22

Hell Houses, 319-20

Helms, Jesse, 290

Herod, King, 93, 94 Hess, Rudolf, 273-4

Hill, Paul, 294-5, 296-7

Hinde, Robert, 177, 184, 214, 232, 341

Hinduism, 32, 33, 260

Hiroshima, 64n

His Dark Materials (Pullman), 130n

Hitchcock, Alfred, 315

Hitchens, Christopher, 42, 292, 354

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The (Adams), 364

Hitler, Adolf: atheist or not, 153, 272-8; birth, 299; Catholicism, 273-7; evil actions, 107, 231, 268-9; fight against, 67; Jewish policy, 16; morality, 230-1, 247; Zeitgeist of his time, 270

Holloway, Richard, 237

Holocaust, 64

homosexuality: Darwinian approach, 166; religious attitudes, 23-4, 238, 248, 289-91; US attitudes, 23-4, 238, 288, 289-91

Horgan, John, 151-3

How the Mind Works (Pinker), 168

How We Believe (Shermer), 102, 168

Hoyle, Fred, 72, 113, 117, 122, 142

Hugo, Victor, 309

Human Genome Project, 99

Hume, Basil, 356, 358

Hume, David, 83, 91, 114, 157

Humphrey, Nicholas, 325-6, 327-30

Huxley, Aldous, 84, 86

Huxley, Julian, 150

Huxley, T. H.: agnosticism, 48–50, 54, 71; misquoted, 213; position in moral Zeitgeist, 271; racial perspective, 266-7

hydrogen, 142-3

Idolatry (Halbertal and Margalit), 244

ignorance, 125-6

illusions, optical, 89–90, 154

imaginary friends, 347-52

immune system, 133

In Gods We Trust (Atran), 36, 177

Inca religion, 327-8

Independent, 21, 52n, 249, 302, 333, 337-8, 340

India, partition, 1, 45-6, 260

indulgences, 358

Inquisition, 312-13

inspiration, 360-2

intelligent design (ID), 61, 82n, 113, 124-5, 126, 131-3

intentional stance, 182-3

IQ and religiosity, 102-3

Iran, rule of ayatollahs, 302

Iraq: invasion of, 21, 268, 303; sectarian conflict, 21, 260

Ireland, education, 316-17

irreducible complexity (IC), 122, 125, 131

Is There a God? (Swinburne), 58, 147

Isaac, 242-3, 251, 265

Ishmael, 242

Islam: as memeplex, 200; Danish cartoon issue, 24-7; foundation, 37, 287; Indian partition, 260; law on intermarriage, 287; power of scripture, 242; religious education, 3, 306; status of women, 302

Israel: Palestinian conflict, 1, 302; schoolchildren's view of Joshua, 255-7

IVF (in vitro fertilization), 294

Jacoby, Susan, 38

Jammer, Max, 16

Javers, R., 394

Jaynes, Julian, 350-1

Jefferson, Thomas: religious views, 42-3, 45, 75, 111; support for Paine, 38; view of death, 354; view of God, 31; view of Jesus' birth, 97; view of Trinity, 34

Jephthah, 243

Jericho, battle of, 247, 255-7, 261

Jerry Springer, the Opera, 288

Jesus: accounts of life, 95-7, 206; atonement for sin, 251-3; birth, 93-5, 97; divine status, 92; ethics, 250-1; Jewish background, 257, 276; miracles, 59, 73, 107; parentage, 59; persona, 31; power, 213

Jesus (Wilson), 93, 96n

Jews: Arab anti-Jewish cartoons, 26; children's loyalty to Judaism, 255-7; Christian anti-semitism, 1, 275; Einstein, 16; electability in US, 4; Hitler's policy towards, 16, 274-5; Holocaust, 64; lobby in US, 4, 44; Mortara kidnap case, 311-15; religious beliefs, 14, 37, 53, 259; religious homogamy, 262

John, gospel of, 93

John Paul II, Pope, 35, 67

Johnson, Phillip E., 5, 82n

Jones, John E., 131, 133

Joseph, 93-4, 95, 96n

Joshua, 247, 255-7, 261

Joshua, book of, 247

Judaism, see Jews

Judas Iscariot, 252-3

Judges, book of, 240-1, 243, 255

Juergensmeyer, Mark, 294, 295

Jung, Carl Gustav, 50, 51

Jupiter, planet, 136

Just Six Numbers (Rees), 141-2

Jyllands-Posten, 24, 25

kamikazes, 306

Kaminer, Wendy, 4

Kant, Immanuel, 83, 224, 231-2, 233

Karzai, Hamid, 287

Katrina, hurricane, 239

Keleman, Deborah, 181, 184

Kelvin, William Thomson, Lord, 98-9

Kenny, Anthony, 186

Ken's Guide to the Bible, 258

Kertzer, David I., 311

Khomeini, Ayatollah, 288

Kidnapping of Edgar do Mortara, The (Kertzer), 311

KUduf M., 394

kindness, 218-19,221

King, Coretta Scott, 290-1

King, Martin Luther, 250, 271, 290

King Jesus (Graves), 252

kinship, 216, 218, 220

Kohn, Marek, 161

Koran, see Qur'an

KPFT-FM, Irish radio station, 339

Kurtz, Paul, 361

Ladman, Cathy, 167-8

Lady Chatterley's Lover (Lawrence), 268

Lane, B., 394

Lane Fox, Robin, 93-4, 95