55 http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs/3506.asp.
56 R. Elisabeth Cornwell and Michael Stirrat, manuscript in preparation, 2006.
57 P. Bell, 'Would you believe it?', Mensa Magazine, Feb. 2002, 12–13.
Chapter 4: Why there almost certainly is no God
The Ultimate Boeing 747
58 An exhaustive review of the provenance, usages and quotations of this analogy is given, from a creationist point of view, by Gert Korthof, at http://home.wxs.nl/~gkorthof/kortho46a.htm.
Natural selection as a consciousness-raiser
59 Adams (2002), p. 99. My 'Lament for Douglas', written the day after his death, is reprinted as the Epilogue to The Salmon of Doubt, and also in A Devil's Chaplain, which also has my eulogy at his memorial meeting in the Church of St Martin-in-the-Fields.
60 Interview in Der Spiegel, 26 Dec. 2005.
61 Susskind (2006: 17).
The worship of gaps
62 Behe (1996).
63 http://www.millerandlevine.com/km/evol/design2/article.html.
64 This account of the Dover trial, including the quotations, is from A. Bottaro, M. A. Inlay and N. J. Matzke, 'Immunology in the spotlight at the Dover "Intelligent Design" trial', Nature Immunology 7, 2006, 433-5.
65 J. Coyne, 'God in the details: the biochemical challenge to evolution', Nature 383, 1996, 227-8. The article by Coyne and me, 'One side can be wrong', was published in the Guardian, 1 Sept. 2005: http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/feature/story/0,13026,1559743,00.html. The quotation from the 'eloquent blogger' is at http://www.religionisbullshit.net/blog/2005_09_01_archive.php.
66 Dawkins (1995).
The anthropic principle: planetary version
61 Carter admitted later that a better name for the overall principle would be 'cognizability principle' rather than the already entrenched term 'anthropic principle': B. Carter, 'The anthropic principle and its implications for biological evolution', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A, 310, 1983, 347-63. For a book-length discussion of the anthropic principle, see Barrow and Tipler (1988).
68 Comins (1993).
69 I spelled this argument out more fully in The Blind Watchmaker (Dawkins 1986).
The anthropic principle: cosmological version
70 Murray Gell-Mann, quoted by John Brockman on the 'Edge' website, http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/smolin.html.
71 Ward (1996: 99); Polkinghorne (1994: 55).
An interlude at Cambridge
72 J. Horgan, 'The Templeton Foundation: a skeptic's take', Chronicle of Higher Education, 7 April 2006. See also http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/horgan06/horgan06_index.html.
73 P. B. Medawar, review of The Phenomenon of Man, repr. in Medawar (1982: 242).
74 Dennett (1995: 155).
Chapter 5: The roots of religion
The Darwinian imperative
75 Quoted in Dawkins (1982: 30).
76 K. Sterelny, 'The perverse primate', in Grafen and Ridley (2006: 213-23).
Group selection
77 N. A. Chagnon, 'Terminological kinship, genealogical relatedness and village fissioning among the Yanomamo Indians', in Alexander and Tinkle (1981: ch. 28).
78 C. Darwin, The Descent of Man (New York: Appleton, 1871), vol. 1, 156.
Religion as a by-product of something else
79 Quoted in Blaker (2003: 7).
Psychologically primed for religion
80 See e.g. Buss (2005).
81 Deborah Keleman, 'Are children "intuitive theists"?', Psychological Science 15: 5, 2004, 295–301.
82 Dennett (1987).
83 Guardian, 31 Jan. 2006.
84 Smythies (2006).
85 http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/14223.htm.
Chapter 6: The roots of morality: why are we good?
86 The movie itself, which is very good, can be obtained at http://www.thegodmovie.com/index.php.
A case study in the roots of morality
87 M. Hauser and P. Singer, 'Morality without religion', Free Inquiry 26: 1, 2006, 18–19.
If there is no God, why be good?
88 Dostoevsky (1994: bk 2, ch. 6, p. 87).
89 Hinde (2002). See also Singer (1994), Grayling (2003), Glover (2006).
Chapter 7: The 'Good' Book and the changing moral Zeitgeist
90 Lane Fox (1992); Berlinerblau (2005).
91 Holloway (1999, 2005). Richard Holloway's 'recovering Christian' line is in a book review in the Guardian, 15 Feb. 2003: http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/scienceandnature/0,6121,894941,00.html. The Scottish journalist Muriel Gray wrote a beautiful account of my Edinburgh dialogue with Bishop Holloway in the (Glasgow) Herald: http://www.sundayherald.com/44517.
The Old Testament
92 For a frightening collection of sermons by American clergymen, blaming hurricane Katrina on human 'sin', see http://universist.org/neworleans.htm.
93 Pat Robertson, reported by the BBC at http://news.bbc.co.Uk/2/hi/americas/4427144.stm.
Is the New Testament any better?
94 R. Dawkins, 'Atheists for Jesus', Free Inquiry 25: 1, 2005, 9-10.
95 Julia Sweeney is also right on target when she briefly mentions Buddhism. Just as Christianity is sometimes thought to be a nicer, gentler religion than Islam, Buddhism is often cracked up to be the nicest of all. But the doctrine of demotion on the reincarnation ladder because of sins in a past life is pretty unpleasant. Julia Sweeney: 'I went to Thailand and happened to visit a woman who was taking care of a terribly deformed boy. I said to his caretaker, "It's so good of you to be taking care of this poor boy." She said, "Don't say 'poor boy,' he must have done something terrible in a past life to be born this way." '
96 For a thoughtful analysis of techniques used by cults, see Barker (1984). More journalistic accounts of modern cults are given by Lane (1996) and Kilduf and Javers (1978).
97 Paul Vallely and Andrew Buncombe, 'History of Christianity: Gospel according to Judas', Independent, 7 April 2006.