How We Believe_ Science and the Search for God - Michael Shermer [190]
undermining of
religious books
religious competition
religious conviction
religious doubt
religious naturalism
religious right
religious tendencies heritability of
renewal myth
residue problem
revelation
truth through
Rips, Eliyahu
Ritter, Bill
Roman empire
Roosevelt, Franklin
Rosenberg, Milt
Rosenberg, Yoav
Ross, Hugh
Ruse, Michael
Russell, Bertrand
Sacred and the Profane. The (Eliade)
Sacred Depths of Nature, The (Goodenough)
sacred science
Sagan, Carl
Saint-Jouin de Marnes, Carlulaire
same-worlds model of science and religion
Sarich, Vince
Satan
Schlessinger, Dr. Laura
Schroeder, Gerald
Schultz, Dwight
Schwartz, Hillel
science
as art of the soluble
and Extropians
and faith
and Genesis
interest in, and religiosity
and patterns
and religion
and religion, models of
and religious intensity
rise of, and decline of religion
as a type of myth
Science, Age of
science, sacred
Science of God, The (Schroeder)
scientism
scientists
belief in God and immortality
Scopes “Monkey Trial”
Scott, Eugenie
Second Coming
Secret Origins of the Bible, The (Callahan)
secular apocalyptic scenarios
secular millennialists
secular religion
secular religion of progress
secularization of religion
Segal, Nancy
Selfish Gene. The (Dawkins)
self-deception
separate-worlds model of science and religion
Seven Promises
Seven Theories of Religion (Pals)
sexes, equality between the
shapeshifting
Sherpas
Sherrill, Martha
Shroud of Turin
shunning
Shute, Nevel
Siberian Ghost Dance
Signature of God, The (Jeffrey and Rambsel)
Simpson, Nicole Brown
Sitting Bull
situational attribution
Skeptic magazine
skeptics
on belief and nonbelief in God
Skeptics Society
Skeptics and True Believers (Raymo)
Skeptics Survey of belief in God
Skinner, B. F.
skyhooks
Smith, Adam
Smith, George
Smith, John Maynard
Smolin, Lee
snakes
fear and fascination of
Snowden, David
Sober, Elliott
social class
social environment
social scientists
Sociobiology (Wilson)
socioeconomic status (SES)
Sociology of Religion, The (Weber)
soft-core atheists
soluble, art of the
Something There
soul
Soviet Union
spandrels
species altruism
speech
evolution of
Spence, Gerry
Spilka, Bernard
Spinoza, Baruch
spirit, nobility of
spirituality
biology of
Star Trek (TV program)
Statistical Science journal
Stearns, Peter
Stein, Gordon
Stephen Hawking’s Universe (TV series)
Stewart, Ian
Stewart, Jimmy
storytelling
see also mythmaking
Street Science (radio show)
Sulloway, Frank
Sulloway–Shermer survey of belief in God
Summa Theologica (Aquinas)
supernatural
supernatural consolation
superstition
supply-side religion
survival
and Belief Engine
and myths and superstitions
Swinburne, Richard
Symons, Donald
synapses
Talking to Heaven (Van Praagh)
taste aversion
Tavibo
Tavris, Carol
Taylor, A. E.
television programs
and religious or spiritual themes
temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE)
temporal lobe transients
tender-mindedness
and religiosity
theism, theists
theology and cosmology
Theories of Primitive Religion (Evans-Pritchard)
There’s a New World Coming (Lindsey)
thinking errors and hits
Thomists
Thompson, Damian
Thorne, Kip
thought contagion
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Nietzsche)
Tillich, Paul
Time magazine
cover stories on religion
“Is God Dead?” cover story
Time/CNN end of the world poll
Tipler, Frank
Tit for Tat program
Tooby, John
Torah
trigger effect
triskaidekaphobia
Trobriand Islanders
Trumpet Shall Sound, The (Worsley)
truth
believing
rejecting
through revelation
see also thinking errors and hits
Truth Cannot Contradict Truth (John Paul II)
20/20 (TV program)
twins and religiosity
2001: A Space Odyssey (Clarke)
Tylor, Edward
UFOs
Unamuno, Miguel
unconditional apocalypticism
Unitarians and belief in God
United States Energy Department
universal spirit
universe
Unsolved Mysteries (TV program)
Unto Others (Sober and