How We Believe_ Science and the Search for God - Michael Shermer [188]
Kauffman, Stuart
Kelly, Kevin
Kicking Bear
kin altruism
King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr.
kingdom of God
Koenig, Harold
Komp, Diane
Konner, Melvin
Koppel, Ted
Koresh, David
Kosko, Bart
Kostner, Kevin
Krakauer, Jon
!Kung San people
Kushner, Rabbi Harold
La Barre, Weston
Landau, Misia
Landes, Richard
language
evolution of
Larson, Edward
Larue, Gerald
Last Judgment (Brueghel painting)
Last Judgment (Michelangelo painting)
Late Great Planet Earth, The (Lindsey)
leap of faith
Leaps of Faith (Humphrey)
Lehmann, Arthur
Lennon, John
Leuba, James
Levy, David
Lewis, C. S.
Lewontin, Richard
liberalism, political
and belief in God
and religiosity
life after death, see afterlife
Life Everlasting in Freedom of the Sons of God (Watchtower Society)
Life of the Cosmos, The (Smolin)
Lindsey, Hal
Linse, Pat
Literary Guide to the Bible, The
Lorenz, Edward
Los Angeles riots (1992)
Los Angeles Times poll on belief in God (1991)
Lost Gospel, The (Mack)
Luke
Luther, Martin
Lynch, Aaron
McCartney, Bill
McDowell, Josh
McGuire, Barry
Machu Picchu
Mack, Burton
McKay, Brendan
Mackay, Charles
MacLaine, Shirley
McLaughlin, James
Macquarrie, Dr. John
McRae, Murdo William
Madonna
Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion (Lehmann and Myers)
magical thinking
Azande people
and environment
and medieval mind
Neanderthal man
Sherpas
Yanomamö
Malinowski, Bronislaw
Man’s Place in the Universe (Wallace)
Maori Ghost Dance
Martin, Michael
Marx, Karl
Marxism
Master of the Universe (TV program)
materialism, see philosophical naturalism
mathematicians
and belief in God
Maven, Max
Mazet, Bruce
Medawar, Sir Peter
medicines
magical use of
Melanesians
Cargo Cult Ghost Dance
meme
and religion
Meme Machine, The (Blackmore)
mental modules
mentalists
Mere Christianity (Lewis)
messiah myth
and Cargo Cult Ghost Dance
Jesus as
Messiah Cults
methodological naturalism, see philosophical naturalism
Michelangelo
Middle Ages
Belief Engine
Miles, General Nelson
militant atheists
millennial meanings
millennium
and apocalypse
attraction of
Miller, Dr. David
Miller, William
Millerites
Mind of God, The (Davies
Mind’s Past, The (Gazzaniga)
Minnesota twins study
Minsky, Marvin
miracles
Miracles (Lewis)
Miracles argument (for God’s existence)
Mitchell, Basil
Mithen, Steven
monotheism
monsters and beasts myths
Mooney, James
Moore, Gordon
Moore, James
Moore’s law
Moral argument (for God’s existence)
moral courage
morality
evolution of
and evolution of religion
More, Max
Morgan, Thomas J.
Mormons
Morris, Brian
Morrison, Jim
Morrow, Tom
multiple regression analysis
multiverse model
Mundus Intellectualis (Fludd)
Murphy, Nancey
Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD)
Myers, James
mysterian mystery
“Mystery of the Human Head” (Fludd)
Mystical Experience argument (for God’s existence)
Myth and Cult Among Primitive Peoples (Jensen)
mythmaking
mythology
myths
and evolution of religion
functions of
and survival
types of
Myths, Dreams, and Mysteries (Eliade)
Myths to Live By (Campbell)
Nahmanides
nanotechnology
narratology, see storytelling
Nation of Islam
National Academy of Sciences
National Opinion Research Center survey for belief in afterlife
Native Americans
Ghost Dance
natural sciences and history
natural selection
naturalism, philosophical
nature and nurture
and religiosity
Nature magazine survey of scientists and belief in God
Neanderthal man
near-death experiences
necessity
and contingency
see also contingent-necessity
negative atheism and atheists
neocortex
Nero
Nettles, Bonnie Lu
neural nets
neuroticism and religiosity
New Age spiritual movements
New Cosmology
New Creationism
New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha, The
New Testament
New York Yankees
New Yorker magazine
Newburg, Andrew
Newsweek magazine
Newton, lsaac
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Nightline (TV program)
no-boundary universe