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Edelman, Marian Wright, 210

Edison, Thomas, 203, 222

Edwards, John, 16

Eibl-Eibesfeldt, Iranaus, 72, 83

Eighteenth Brumaire, The (Marx), 228, 252–53

Einstein, Albert, 44, 53, 201, 203, 205, 209, 214, 222, 224, 235

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 39

Eldredge, Niles, 131, 262

electrons, xxviii–xxix

Elias, Norbert, 212

Eliot, I S, 201

Elizabeth I, 209, 217

Ellison, Harlan, 233–35, 237, 239–40

Elphinstone, William, 127

emergence, 183, 191

endostatin, 103

Engel, Joel, 229

Engels, Friedrich, 227

Enlightenment, 23, 58

entropy, history and, 135

enumerateology, 206–17

Epperson, Susan, 175

Erin Brockovich (film), xxiii

e-Skeptic (newsletter), 24, 28

Essai Philosophique (Laplace), 147

Establishment Clause, 175

Euclid, 220

Europeans, colonization by, 170–71

evolution. See also creationism; Darwin

antichaos and, 141–42

Catholics and, 189

co-opting of nature and, 185, 187

counterintuitive nature of, xxix–xxx

debate over, education and, 195–97

Gould and, 242–44, 249–50, 256–57, 260–64

movement against, xxxv, 173–75, 198

mutiny on Bounty and, 120–24

panda’s thumb and, 149

progressivism and, xxxii, 39, 44–46, 163–66

punctuated equilibrium and, 131, 258, 261

Evolutionary Creationism (EC), 197

“evolutionary medicine,” 49–50

Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (Denton), 177

Ewald, Paul, 48, 49

explanatory gaps and filter, 191–95

eye, evolution and, 183–85, 186

eye-brain illusion, xiv

faces, patterns seen as, xviii

Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (Gardner), 59–60

False Memory Syndrome Foundation, 145, 146

Faraday, Michael, 214, 222, 223

Fawcett, Henry, 266–67

feedback/feedforward loops, 142–45, 147

Ferrill, Arthur, 89

Feynman, Richard, 25, 63

Fifth Miracle, The (Davies), 190

file-drawer problem, 106

Finding Darwin’s God (Miller), 178

“Fine Flattery,” 6, 13

Fingerprint of God, The (Ross), 177

Firing Fine (TV series), 177

First Amendment, 57

Fisher, Helen, 122–23

Fixx, Jim, 48

flagellum, 184, 186–87

Flamingo’s Smile, The (Gould), 178

Flat Earthers, 196

Fleming, Alexander, 203, 223

Florey, Howard, 223

Folkman, Judah, 103, 104

Fontana, Dorothy C, 234

Ford, Henry, 203, 222

Forrest, Barbara, 178

fossil record

Burgess Shale, 253

evolution of life and, 191–92, 196–97

speciation and, 131

Fox, Michael J., 82

Francis Ferdinand, Archduke, 201

Freeman, Derek, 75

“freethinker,” 31, 34, 35

Freud, Sigmund, 203, 217

Frontier in American Histoiy, The (Turner), 212

Fryer, John, 117, 125, 127

Full Facts Book of Cold Reading, The (Rowland), 4

Futrell, Mynga, 20, 31, 37

future, predictions of, xix–xxi, 5

Future Shock (Toffler), 212

“fuzzy factor,” 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50, 52

Gable, Clark, 114

Gage, Fred, 51–52

galaxies, 38–39

Galen, 220

Galileo Galilei, 53, 202, 203, 214, 221, 223, 267

Gandhi, Mahatma, 203

ganglion cells, 185

Gap or Restitution Creationism, 196

Gardner, Martin, xxxii, 59–61, 65

Geisert, Paul, 20, 31, 37

Geller, Uri, 62

Gell-Mann, Murray, 63, 64

Gene Roddenherr)’ (Engel), 229

Genesis, 175, 196

Genetic Assisted Design (GAD), 193

genetics, 192

Geocentrists, 196

Gere, Richard, 83

Gerlich, Nick, 55

germ theory of disease, 48, 202, 222, 223

Gettysburg, Battle of, 156

Giandalone, Joseph, 24, 30

Gibson, Mel, 114

Gilbert, W.S., 263

Gilovich, Thomas, 97, 98

globalization, social, 164, 166, 169, 170

God, belief in, xxii, 23, 179, 189–91, 199, 230, 232

God, The Devil, and Darwin (Shanks), 178

God and the Astronomers (Jastrow), 241

Goddard, Robert, 223

Gods Must Be Crazy, The (film), 73

Goethe, 217

Gogineau, Comte J. A. de, 205

Gold, Thomas, 46–48

Goldhagen, Daniel, 160–61, 161

Good, Kenneth, 72–73, 77, 83–89

Gore, Al, 54

Gould, Daniel, 99

Gould, Elizabeth, 51

Gould, Stephen Jay, xxxii, xxxvi–xxxvii, 45, 63, 98, 131, 132–33, 149, 176, 178, 242–68

Graf, Jeanine, 54, 55