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Gould on, 262–65

ID theory and, 182, 184–86, 188–89

Wallace and, 260–61

Navarick, Doug, 62

Neanderthals, 45, 101, 162–68, 169, 171

necessity, 133, 155, 156, 158. See also contingent-necessity

Nelson, Paul, 187

Neptune, 261

nerve growth factor (NGF), 50, 52

nerves, 49–52, 179

Neumann, John von, 203

neurotransmitters, 122–23, 129

Newcomen, Thomas, 222

Neil’ England Journal of Medicine, xxiv, xxv, 103

Newton, Isaac, 132, 162, 203, 209, 214, 217, 221, 222, 223

Nixon, Richard, 200, 205

Nkrumah, Kwame, 203

No Free Lunch (Dembski), 177, 197

nonbelievers, labeling of, 19–21, 30–37

nonlinearity, 130, 133, 140

nonprogressivism, 265–66

Nonzero (Wright), 163–64

norepinephrine, 122

Norwood, Scott, 95

Nottebohm, Fernando, 51

Novum Organum (Bacon), xii, 221, 223

Numbers, Ronald, 244, 258

Nye, Bill, xxxi, 3

observer effect, 76

OCEAN (Five Factor Model of personality), 5

Of Pandas and People (Kenyon and Davis), 177

oil, xxxii, 39, 46–48

Old Earth Creationism (OED), 196

100, The (Hart), xxxvi, 209

On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres (Copernicus), 221, 223

Ontogeny and Phylogeny (Gould), 242

Order 191, 156

Organon (Aristotle), xii

Origin of Species, The (Darwin), 222, 223, 224, 263–64, 266

Origins of War, The (Ferrill), 89

Oswald, Lee Harvey, 201

Otto, NikolausA., 222

Overton, William R., 176

Oxytocin Factor, The (Moberg), 122

paleoanthropology, 165, 166–67

paleontology, 131, 265–66

Paley, William, 189, 197

palm readings, 3, 5, 12–14

“Panda’s Thumb of Technology, The” (Gould), 149, 152

papillomavirus, 49–50

Papin, Denis, 222

Paracelsus, 221

paradigm shifts, 140

parallel universes, 41, 43

paramorph model, 135

paranormal, 62–63, 65, 180

Parkinson’s disease, 50, 51

Parks, Rosa, 210

Pascal, Blaise, 221

Pasley, Laura, 145

Pasteur, Louis, 203, 214, 222, 223

“path dependency,” 149, 151

patterns, xxiii, xxviii, 38

Paul, Saint, 209

peak performance, 97, 99

Pelé, 204

penicillin, 206, 223

Penn and Teller (magicians), 64

Pennock, Robert, 178, 183

People of the Century (CBS News), 203

Perakh, Mark, 178

personality, 5–6, 11–13, 95

Peter the Great, 209

Philadelphia 76ers, 97–98

Picasso, Pablo, 209

Pigliucci, Massimo, 178

Pine us, Gregory, 223

Pinker, Steven, 78

Pipon, Philip, 121

pituitary, 122

Planck, Max, 222

platelet factor 4, 103

Plato, 214, 218

Poincaré, Jules, 217

Polo, Marco, 221

polygamy and polyandry, 81, 82, 123

Pope, Alexander, 252

Powell, Colin, 210

predictability, 132–34

present change, theory of, 131

Prigogine, Uya, 136

Princip, Gavrilo, 201

Progressive Creationism (PC), 196–97, 265

progressive evolution (purpose), 45–46, 165–66, 188–89, 260, 262, 264–66

Pronin, Emily, xxii

proximate causes, 115–19, 171

Prozac, 129

psychics, xxxi, 3–18

psychology

bias and, xii–xiii, xix–xxii

clinical vs. experimental, 100

counterfactuals and, 161, 162

sports and, 91–100

status and hierarchy and, 115

trends in, 94

psychophysiological models, 94

Ptolemy, 220

pulsar stars, 48

punctuated equilibrium, 131

punctuationalism-gradualism theme, 258, 261

Purcell, Ed, 98

Purcell, William, 117

Pythagoras, 220

quadiplegia and paraplegia, 50, 52

quantum theory, xxviii–xxix, 41, 44, 216, 222

Quintal, Matthew, 121, 125

QWERTY principle, 138–40, 148–52

Race Across America, xxxiii, 64, 91–92, 100

Raisman, Geoffrey, 51

Rakic, Pasko, 52

Ramona, Gary, 145

Ramonóy Cajal, Santiago, 203

Randi, James, xx, 21, 26, 27, 61, 63–65

Rauch, Jonathan, 29

Reason in the Balance (Johnson), 177

Reasons to Believe ministries, 196–97

Rees, Martin, 41

Reeve, Christopher, 50, 52

Reisch, George, 138

religion, xviii–xix, 62, 122. See also “Bright” movement; creationism; God, belief in religious fundamentalists, xxxv, 19, 24, 57, 60

repressed memory movement, 143–45, 146

research ethics, 76–78

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