Chapter 1: A deeply religious non-believer
Deserved respect
3 The television documentary of which the interview was a part was accompanied by a book (Winston 2005).
4 Dennett (2006).
Undeserved respect
5 The full speech is transcribed in Adams (2003) as 'Is there an artificial God?'
6 Perica (2002). See also http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/108.5/br_151.html.
7 'Dolly and the cloth heads', in Dawkins (2003).
8 http://scotus.ap.org/scotus/04-1084p.zo.pdf.
9 R. Dawkins, 'The irrationality of faith', New Statesman (London), 31 March 1989.
10 Columbus Dispatch, 19 Aug. 2005.
11 Los Angeles Times, 10 April 2006.
12 http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2006/02/islamic-society-of-denmark-used-fake.html.
13 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4686536.stm; http://www.neandernews.com/?cat=6.
14 Independent, 5 Feb. 2006.
15 Andrew Mueller, 'An argument with Sir Iqbal', Independent on Sunday, 2 April 2006, Sunday Review section, 12–16.
Chapter 2: The God Hypothesis
16 Mitford and Waugh (2001).
Polytheism
17 http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06608b.htm.
18 http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/indexsnt.htm?NF=l.
Secularism, the Founding Fathers and the religion of America
19 Congressional Record, 16 Sept. 1981.
20 http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/buckner_tripoli.html.
21 Giles Fraser, 'Resurgent religion has done away with the country vicar', Guardian, 13 April 2006.
22 Robert I. Sherman, in Free Inquiry 8: 4, Fall 1988, 16.
23 N. Angier, 'Confessions of a lonely atheist', New York Times Magazine, 14 Jan. 2001: http://www.geocities.com/mindstuff/Angier.html.
24 http://www.fsgp.org/adsn.html.
25 An especially bizarre case of a man being murdered simply because he was an atheist is recounted in the newsletter of the Freethought Society of Greater Philadelphia for March/April 2006. Go to http://www.fsgp.org/newsletters/newsletter_2006_0304.pdf and scroll down to 'The murder of Larry Hooper'.
26 http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mag/2001/ll/18/stories/2001111800070400.htm.
The poverty of agnosticism
27 Quentin de la Bedoyere, Catholic Herald, 3 Feb. 2006.
28 Carl Sagan, 'The burden of skepticism', Skeptical Inquirer 12, Fall 1987.
29 I discussed this case in Dawkins (1998).
30 T. H. Huxley, 'Agnosticism' (1889), repr. in Huxley (1931). The complete text of 'Agnosticism' is also available at http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/thomas_huxley/huxley_wace/part_02.html.
31 Russell, 'Is there a God?' (1952), repr. in Russell (1997b).
32 Andrew Mueller, 'An argument with Sir Iqbal', Independent on Sunday, 2 April 2006, Sunday Review section, 12–16.
33 New York Times, 29 Aug. 2005. See also Henderson (2006).
34 Henderson (2006).
35 http://www.lulu.com/content/267888.
The Great Prayer Experiment
36 H. Benson et al., 'Study of the therapeutic effects of intercessory prayer (STEP) in cardiac bypass patients', American Heart Journal 151: 4, 2006, 934-42.
37 Richard Swinburne, in Science and Theology News, 7 April 2006, http://www.stnews.org/Commentary-2772.htm.
38 New York Times, 11 April 2006.
The Neville Chamberlain school of evolutionists
39 In court cases, and books such as Ruse (1982). His article in Playboy appeared in the April 2006 issue.
40 Jerry Coyne's reply to Ruse appeared in the August 2006 issue of Playboy.
41 Madeleine Bunting, Guardian, 27 March 2006.
42 Dan Dennett's reply appeared in the Guardian, 4 April 2006.
43 http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/03/the_dawkinsdennett_boogeyman.php; http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/02/our_double_standard.php; http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/02/the_rusedennett_feud.php.
Little green men
44 http://vo.obspm.fr/exoplanetes/encyclo/encycl.html.
45 Dennett (1995).
Chapter 3: Arguments for God's existence
The ontological argument and other a priori arguments
46 http://www.iep.utm.edU/o/ont-arg.htm. Gasking's 'proof is at http://www.uq.edu.au/~pdwgrey/pubs/gasking.html.
The argument from personal 'experience'
47 The whole subject of illusions is discussed by Richard Gregory in a series of books including Gregory (1997).
48 My own attempt at spelling out the explanation is on pp. 268-9 of Dawkins (1998).
49 http://www.sofc.org/Spirituality/s-of-fatima.htm.
The argument from scripture
50 Tom Flynn, 'Matthew vs. Luke', Free Inquiry 25: 1, 2004, 34–45; Robert Gillooly, 'Shedding light on the light of the world', Free Inquiry 25: 1, 2004, 27–30.
51 Erhman (2006). See also Ehrman (2003a, b).
The argument from admired religious scientists
52 Beit-Hallahmi and Argyle (1997).
53 E. J. Larson and L. Witham, 'Leading scientists still reject God', Nature 394, 1998, 313.
54 http://www.leaderu.com/ftissues/ft9610/reeves.html gives a particularly interesting analysis of historical trends in American religious opinion by Thomas C. Reeves, Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, based on Reeves (1996).