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conditionals, 156, 161–62. See also counterfactual conditionals

confirmation bias, xix–xxi, xxiii–xxv, 37

Confucius, 209, 214

Connections (Burke), 213

conservation of information, 193–95

“consilience of inductions,” 174

Contact (Sagan), 43–44, 241

continental drift (plate tectonics), xxviii, 141, 223

contingency, xxxvi, 132, 133, 141, 155, 157–59, 171–72, 227–28

contingent-necessity. See also counterfactual conditionals; and specific historical events

agriculture and, 168–72

“City on the Edge of Forever” and, 236–39

Civil War and, xxxv, 156–57, 158

corollaries of, 134, 137, 138, 141, 142, 144, 147

Gould and, 258, 261–62, 264–66

heroism and, 228–29

history as product of, 155

Holocaust and, 157–61

mass hysteria and, 142–47

model of, 133–42

Neanderthals and, 162–68, 169, 171

Roddenberry and, 230–31

“convergence of evidence,” 174

Cook, James, 89, 112, 121, 124

Cooke, William F., 222

Coon, Gene, 234

Cooper, Matt, 32

Copernicus, 52, 214, 221, 223

Cornish, Samuel, 210

cosmic microwave radiation, 42

cosmos, as feedback loop, 191

Cosmos (Sagan), 40, 241–42

counterfactual conditionals, 155–72

Cousteau, Jacques, 203

Cox, Kathy, 195

Coyne, Jerry, 184

creation/evolution continuum, 195–97

creationism, xxxv, 58, 60, 64, 74, 173–99

Creationism’s Trojan Horse (Forrest and Gross), 178

Creator and the Cosmos, The (Ross), 177

Cretaceous period, 154

Crichton, Michael, 43

Crick, Francis H., 223

critical breaking point, 140, 143, 145

Cro-Magnons, 166

cultural determinism, 78

Dalton, John, 209

Damarjian, Nicole, 99

Daniel, Clifton, 214–15

Dante Alighieri, 203

Darkness in El Dorado (Tierney), 69, 71, 73, 77

Darwin, Charles, xxxiv, 3, 5, 52, 53, 58, 111, 120, 122, 128, 135, 174, 188, 189, 203, 214, 222–24, 243, 244, 250, 260, 262–68. See also evolution

Dictum of, 71, 267–68

Darwin and Design (Ruse), 178, 188

Darwinism, Design, and Public Education (Campbell and Meyer), 177

Darwin on Trial (Johnson), 177, 180

Darwins Black Box (Behe), 177, 182, 183

Darwin’s Dangerous Idea (Dennett), 242

Davies, Paul, 190

Davis, Bernard, 242

Davis, Ossie, 210

Davis, William, 177

Dawkins, Richard, xx, xxxi, 21–22, 27, 46, 178, 179, 189, 242, 262

Dawn of Man (TV show), 165–66

Day-Age Creationism, 196

Day the Universe Changed, The (Burke), 213

dead, talking to, 16–17, 18

death, xxxiii, 101, 107

Death card, 9, 10, 11

De Computo Naturali (Bacon), 221

deconstructionists, 115

Dee, Ruby, 210

“deep hot biosphere” theory, 46–47

De Forest, Lee, 222

Dembski, William, 177, 187, 193–95, 197

Democritus, 220

Dening, Greg, 112, 114–15

Dennett, Daniel, xxxi, 21, 22, 27, 46, 242, 262

Denton, Michael, 177

Denying Evolution (Pigliucci), 178

Denying History, 54

Descartes, Rene, 221, 223

Descent of Man, The (Darwin), 128

Design Inference, The (Dembski), 177, 197

determinism, 132

Deutsch, David, 41

Devil’s Chaplain, A (Dawkins), 178

Diamond, Jared, 89, 170–72, 204, 244, 245

Diana, Princess, xxi, 204

Diderot, Denis, 58

DiMaggio, Joe, 98, 250

Dineen, Tana, 100

Dinosaur in a Haystack (Gould), 250

dinosaurs, 154, 164

Discourse on Method (Descartes), 221

discoveries and inventions, top, 205–6, 207, 218–24

Disturbing the Universe (Dyson), 189–90

disulfide bonds, 192–93

DNA, 179, 181, 182, 206, 194

mitochondiral, xxix–xxx

Dobkin de Rios, Marlene, 62

dogs, evolution of, xxix, 192

domestication of grains and mammals, 169–72, 220. See also agricultural revolution

Don Quixote (Cervantes), 202

dopamine, 122, 123

Douglass, Frederick, 209

Dracula, Count, 200

Drosnin, Michael, xix–xx drug-resistance, 192

D’Souza, Dinesh, 23

DuBois, W E. B., 209

Durant, Will and Ariel, 214, 217, 219

Durham, Bill, 75

Dvorak keyboard, 149–51

Dying of Enoch Wallace, The (Black), 50

Dylan, Bob, 204

Dyson, Freeman, 189–90

earthquakes, xxviii, 140

E-coli,