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gravity, 42

Great Books of the Western World (Adler), 211

“Great Instauration,” xii, 208

“great men” of history, 137–38, 227

Greeks, ancient, 58, 220, 223

Gross, Paul R., 178

Guinness Book of Records, xxviii, 201

Guns, Germs, and Steel (Diamond), 170, 204

Gutenberg, Johannes, 202, 207, 209, 221, 223

Hagall Spread, 9–10, 10

Haindl Tarot Deck, 8–9

Hall, Prince, 209

Hamilton, Emma, 217

“Hand, The” (Bell), 264

Hansen, Mark Victor, 92

Hardison, Richard, xxxvi, 211

Harlan Ellison’s The City on the Edge of Forever (Ellison), 233–34

Harré, Rom, 135

Harris, Marvin, 72

Harris, Sidney, 180

Hart, Michael, xxxvi, 206, 209, 219

Harvey, William, 221

Hawking, Stephen, 44, 190, 242

Hayward, Thomas, 125

heart disease, 48

Hegel, G.W.F., 199, 252

Heisenberg, Werner, 223

Helicobactor pylori (peptic ulcer virus), 49

Hempel, Carl, 132

Henson, Jim, 203

hepatitis virus, 49

Herald Tribune, 205, 219

heretical ideas, science and, xxxi–xxxii, 39–53

“hermit scientist,” 59

Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (Carlyle), 227

heroes, xxxvi, 227–35, 240

Hero in History, The (Hook), 228

herpes simplex virus, 49

hierarchy and status, 119, 124–29

high-probability guesses, 6–7, 14, 16

Hill, Kim, 77

Himmler, Heinrich, 159, 205

hippocampus, 51

history. See also contingent-necessity; science, history of; and specific events

Bligh’s language and, 115

chaos and complexity theory and, xxxiv, 130–52

comparative method in, 162

counterfactual conditionals and thought experiments in, 161, 162

Gould on, 262

heroic and, 227–35, 240

QWERTY principle of, 138–40, 149–52

science and study of, xxxiv

time travel and, 44

top events and people lists, xxxi–xxxvi, 200–224

“What if?” questions and, xxxii–xxxv, 155–61

History and Theory (journal), xxxiv

Hitler, Adolf, 157’, 200, 202, 204

Hitler’s Willing Executioners (Goldhagen), 160

Hodgkin, A. L., 179

Holland, 221

Holocaust, xxxiv, 54, 74, 157–61

Holton, Gerald, 259

homeomorph model, 135

Homer, 209

hominid species, 45

Homo erectus, 167

Homo habilis, 167

Hook, Sidney, 228

Hooke, Robert, 221

Hopkins, Anthony, 114

Hopkins, Mariann, xxiv

Horgan, John, 78, 80

“Horn of Triton, The” (Gould), 261–62

hot streaks, 95–96, 250

Houdini, Harry, 58

Houston, Charles H., 209

Howard, Trevor, 114

3, How We Believe, 20, 167

Hubbard, L. Ron, 59–60

Hubble, Edwin, 38–39

Human Career, The (Klein), 166

Human Condition, The (Arendt), 210–11

Humanist (journal), 230

human nature, xxxiii, 75, 78–83, 89–90, 122, 127, 128

humans (Homo sapiens)

evolution and, xxix–xxx, 45–46, 162–68, 169, 265–66, 192

genome of, 50, 142, 194

neurogenesis in, 51–52

Hume, David, 58

Hunstman, Benjamin, 222

hunting, fishing, and gathering (HFG), 127, 169, 171

Huntington’s disease, 50

Huxley, A. F., 179

Huxley, Thomas, 20, 58

Huygens, Christian, 221

hydrocarbons, as not organic, 46–48

Hyman, Ray, 61

hyoid bone, 167

hypnotherapist, 92

hypotheses

counterfactuals used to test, 161–62

statistical significance and, 62

Ibn-Khaldun, 203

iconoscope, 223

Icons of Evolution (Wells), 177, 198

idols, xii–xiii, xviii, xxiii–xxv

impossible crate illusion, xv, xvi, xvii

In Darwin’s Shadow (Shermer), xxxiv

inference, 162, 167

inference to design, 187–89

“initial complexity theory,” 177

Instauratio Magna (Bacon), 208

Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics (Pennock), 178

Intelligent Design Creationists (IDC), 197

Intelligent Design (Dembski), Ml, 197

Intelligent Design (ID), xxxv, 174, 176–99

intentionalists, 157

interferon, 103

International Human Powered Vehicle

Association, 63

“Interpretation of Diagrams, The” (Gould), 261

In the Name of Science (Gardner), 60

Into the Heart (Good), 72–74, 83

inventions. See discoveries and inventions “inverted-U” diagram, 96

“irreducible complexity,” 178