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attribution biases
in religous beliefs
attribution theory
Augustine, Saint
Australopithecines.
Australopithecus africanus
Axelrod, Robert
Azande
baby-boomer generation
Baha’i sect
Bahai Under the Provisions of the Covenant
Barkow, Jerome
“Barn, The” (La Crescenta, Calif.)
Barna, George
Barnes, Michael
baseball
as a system of change
superstitions
Basinger, David
“Battle Hymn of the Republic
B.C.–A.D. chronological system
beautiful people myth
Beauvoir, Simone de
behavioral geneticists
and religiosity
Behe, Michael
Belief Engine
belief formation
belief in God, see God, belief in
Bentley, Richard
Beowulf
Bergman, Gerald
Berlin Wall
Bettinger, Robert
Beyond the Cosmos (Ross)
biases in attribution
Bible
authorship of
Heaven on Earth metaphors
science facts revealed in
study of
Bible Code, The (Drosnin)
Bible Prophecy (Callahan)
biblical literalism
Big Foot, Chief
Binford, Lewis
bioaltruism
Bio-Cultural Pyramid
biologists and belief in God
Biology of Moral Systems, The (Alexander)
Biophilia (Wilson)
birth order and openness to experience
Bishop. George
black religious experience
Black Coyote
Blackmore, Susan
Blanke, Olaf
body and soul
Boggs, Wade
Book of Prophecies (Columbus)
book publishing
Born to Rebel (Sulloway)
Bouchard, Thomas
Boyer, Pascal
brain
chemistry of
circuits of
evolution of
God module in
and language
modular view of
and number of relationships
and religiosity
and storytelling
Branch Davidians
Brand, Chris
Brasher, Brenda
Brett, George
Brief History of Time. A (Hawking)
Brierre de Boismont, Alexandre
Broca’s area
Brodie, Richard
Brown, Denise
Browning, Robert
Brueghel, Pieter, the Elder
Brugger, Peter
Brunvand, Jan Harold
Bryan, William Jennings
Buckley, William F.
Buddha from Brooklyn, The (Sherrill)
Burgess Shale
Buss. Leo
butterfly effect
Callahan, Tim
Calvin, John
Campbell, Joseph
capitalism
Capra, Frank
Carew, Rod
Cargo Cult Ghost Dance
Carlyle, Thomas
Carnegie Commission study of scientists and religiosity (1969)
Casti, John
Catholicism, Catholics
belief in afterlife
belief in evolution
belief in God
recruitment and conversion
Century’s End (Schwartz)
Chagnon, Napoleon
chain letters
Chalice and the Blade, The [Eisler)
chance
chaos, chaos theory
Chartres Cathedral
Chaucer, Geoffrey
chemistry
Chen, Heng-ming
Chiang, Chin-Hung
Chot Chelpan
Christian atheists
Christ’s Soon Return
church attendance
and belief in God
and openness to experience
and religiosity
church membership rates
Church of England
Church Universal and Triumphant
Churchill, Winston
Churching of America, 1776–1990, The
City of God, The (Augustine)
Clarke, Arthur C.
Clearwater, Florida
Virgin Mary appearance
Clough, Arthur H.
cognitive fluidity
Cohen, Jack
cold readings
Coles, Michael
Columbus, Christopher
conditional apocalypticism
conflicting-worlds model of science and religion
conscience
conscientiousness
and religiosity
conservatives
and belief in God
Consilience (Wilson)
consilience of inductions
Consolmagno, Guy
Constantine
contingency
and freedom
and Homo sapiens
and necessity
and problem of emphasis
and problem of meaning
contingent-necessity
convention
and observance of religion
convergence of evidence
Conversations with God (Walsh)
cooperation
and human evolution
Copernicus
Copper Eskimo
Coppola, Francis Ford
correlation coefficient (r)
correlations
Cosmides, Leda
cosmogonies
cosmogony myths
cosmological arguments for God’s existence
cosmology
see also New Cosmology
Cosmos (TV series)
courage, moral
cranes
see also skyhooks
creation
creationism
in public schools
see also New Creationism
creationists
example of human eye evolution
on science
Creator, and the Cosmos, Creation and Time, The (Ross)
Credo Quia Consolans argument (for God’s existence)
Crichton, Michael
Critiques of God (Angeles)
Cro-Magnons