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Behe, Michael, 177, 182–84, 187

Belafonte, Harry, 210

beliefs, xix, xxii–xxiii

Bell, Alexander Graham, 222

Bell, Charles, 264, 265

Bernstein, Bob, xviii

biases, xxii–xxiii. See also idols

Bible, 54–57, 189, 196, 252, 253, 264

Bible Code, xix–xxi

Bible Prophecy (Callahan), 55

bicycle racing, xxxiii, 94, 98–99, 106

bifurcation point (“trigger of change”), 136–37, 140, 144

big bang theory, 35, 40, 42, 188, 206

Binford, Lewis, 131

biochemicals, 129, 184

biography, contingent-necessity and, 229

biological determinism, 78

Biological Science Curriculum Study, 175

birth, bonding and, 123

birth control pill, 205, 206, 219, 223

birth order, 6, 11

Black 100, The, 209–10

Black, Ira, 50

black holes, 41–42

Bligh, William, 89, 111–21, 124–29

Bligh, Edward, 127

Bligh, John, 127

Blind Watchmaker, The (Dawkins), 178, 189

Blücher, Gebhard von, 156

Bluming, Avrum, 104, 105

Boas, Franz, 75

Bogart, Humphrey, 117

Bohr, Niels, 209

Bolivar, Simon, 219

bonding and attachment, 119–24, 128–29

Book of Lists (Manchester), 201, 216

Borderlands of Science, The (Shermer), 40, 60

Bosch, Carl, 223

Bounty, The (Alexander), 112–13

Bounty (ship), xxxiv, 111–29, 118

Bradbury, Ray, 153–55

brain

love and, 123

regeneration of, xxxii, 39, 50–52

tumors of, xxxiii, 102–4

Brando, Marlon, 114

Brattain, Walter H., 223

Brattstrom, Bayard, 62

Braudel, Fernand, 131–32

Brief History of Time, A (Hawking), 242

“Bright” movement, xxxi, 20–37

bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU), 51–52

Bronowski, Jacob, 211, 241

Brown, Donald, 128

Brown, Ron, 210

Brunei, Isambard K., 222

Brunelleschi, Filipo, 221

Bryan, William Jennings, 199

bubble universes, 40–42, 191

Buckley, William F., 177

Buckner, Bill, 95

Buddha, 209

Bulhof, Johannes, 159

burial, Neanderthals and, 101, 166–67

Burke, James, 212–13

Bush, George W., 51, 102

butterfly effect, 137–38, 154–55

Byrne, John, xx–xxi

Byrne, Michael, 125

Caine Mutiny, The (film), 117

Caligula, 205

Callahan, Tim, 55

Cambrian “explosion” of life, 261

Campbell, John, Jr., 59

Campbell, John Angus, 177

Campylohacter jejuni, 187

cancer, xxiii, xxxiii

brain tumors and, 102–8

as infectious, xxxii, 39, 48–50

Carabatsos, Steve, 234

Carlson, Chester, 223

Carlyle, Thomas, 201, 227

Carothers, Wallace H., 223

Carter, Jimmy, 195

Cassingham, Randy, 150

Casti, John, 143

catastrophe, 140, 141, 143

Catholics, 189, 197

caudate nucleus, 123

causality (cause-and-effect). See also contingency-necessity

correlation vs., xxiii

historical sequences and, 157

modal thinking and, 161

proximate vs. ultimate, 115

thought experiments and, 235–36

time travel and, 44

cellular structures, 181–82, 185, 191

cervical cancer, 49–50

Cesi, Prince Federico, 267

Chagnon, Napoleon, 69–89, 128–29

Chain, Ernst, 223

Chaitin, Gregory J. 193

Challenger tragedy, xxi

Chambers, William, 50

chaos theory, xxxiv, 130–52, 154, 156–57

chemotherapy, 52

Chen, Kan, 140, 141, 143

China, 172, 192, 204

Chlamydia pneumoniae, 49

Christ, 55, 209

Christian, Fletcher, 111–14, 116–19, 121, 124, 125, 127, 129

Christian, Thursday October, 121

Chronicle of the 20th Century (Daniel), 214–15

“chronology protection conjecture,” 44

Chua-Eoan, Howard, 201

Churchill, Charles, 125, 126

Churchill, Winston, 200, 203

“City on the Edge of Forever, The” (Star Trek episode), 233–40

Civilizing Process, The (Elias), 212

Civil War, xxxv, 156–57, 158

Clark, T.H., 253

Clinton, Bill, 102

cognitive behavioral models, 94, 99

cognitive biases, xxi–xxii

Cohen, Jack, 142

cold reading, 3, 4–18

Columbus, Christopher, 202, 203, 209, 221

Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, 132

Coming of Age in Samoa (Mead), 75

Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), 61, 63, 64

complex adaptive systems, 191

complex criticality, 147

complexity