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Time Line (Crichton), 43

time’s arrow-times cycle theme, 258–60, 264

time travel, xxxii, 39, 42–44, 153–72, 233–39

Tobin, George, 126

Toffler, Alvin, 212

Tolstoy, Leo, 203

Toscanelli, Paolo dal Pozzo, 221

Toward the Ph.D. for Dogs (Chagnon), 74–75

Tower of Babel (Pennock), 178, 183

Townes, C. H., 223

Toxoplasma gondii, 49

Transcendental Temptation (Kurtz), 65–66

Triplett, Norman, 94

Truth Cannot Contradict Truth (papal encyclical), 189

Truzzi, Marcello, 61

Ts’ai Lun, 209, 220

Turner, Frederick Jackson, 212

Turner, Nat, 210

Tversky, Amos, 97, 98

UFOs, 60, 145, 232

ulcers, 49

ultimate causes, 112, 115, 119–29, 171

Unintelligent Deisgn (Perakh), 178

U.S. Constitution, 57

U.S. Supreme Court, 64, 175

universal conditional forms, 132–33

universe, xxxii, 38–42. See also bubble universes; multiverse

fine-tuned, and life, 189–91

Upon the Shoulders of Giants (Hardison), 211

Vallone, Richard, 97, 98

Vancouver, George, 112, 121

Van Pelt, Robert Jan, 157–59

Van Praagh, James, 16

Velikovsky, Immanuel, 59

venereal disease, 120, 121, 206, 207

Vesalius, Andreas, 221

Vescovi, Angelo, 51

Viking missions, xv

Vinci, Leonardo da, 203, 256–57

Virgin Mary, xix, xx

virtual reality machines, 43, 44

virtues, 122

viruses, xxxii, 49

visualization, 98–99

Voltaire, 58, 214

Voyager spacecraft, 261

Walcott, Charles Doolittle, 253

Waldman, Steven, 23

Walker, David, 210

Wallace, Alfred Russel, xxxiv, 5, 260–61

Wall Street Journal top ten list, 210

War Before Civilization (Keeley), 89

warfare, 89–90, 128–29

Washington, Booker T, 209

water, evolution and, 191

Watson, James D., 223

Watt, James, 222, 223

Wedge of Truth, The (Johnson), 177, 198

Wegener, Alfred, 223

Wells, Jonathan, 177, 198

West, Jerry, 95

Wheatstone, Charles, 222

Whewell, William, 174

Whitney, Eli, 222

Whittle, Frank, 223

Why People Believe Weird Things (Gould), xxxii, 23, 178

Why We Love (Fisher), 122

Wilde, Oscar, 217

Wilder, Doug, 210

Wilhelm II, kaiser of Germany, 204

Wilkins, Maurice, 223

Williams, John, 121

Wills, Christopher, 166

Wilson, Edward O., 244, 245

Winfrey, Oprah, 204

wings, evolution of, 184

witch crazes, 143–45, 146

World War I (Great War), 201

World War II, 205

wormholes, 44

Wright, Orville and Wilbur, 203, 222, 224

Wright, Robert, 163–64, 243, 262

Yanomamö (Chagnon), 71, 76, 79, 83, 89

Yanomamö people, xxxiii, 69–90, 88, 128–29

Ye’Kwana Indians, 79–80

Young, Edward, 117, 121

Young-Earth Creationism (YEC), 196

zero-sum games, 163

Zworykin, Vladimir, 223

About the Author

DR. MICHAEL SHERMER is the founding publisher of Skeptic magazine (www.skeptic.com), the director of the Skeptics Society, a contributing editor of and monthly columnist for Scientific American, the host of the Skeptics Lecture Series at Caltech, and the cohost and producer of the thirteen-hour Fox Family television series Exploring the Unknown. He is the author of a trilogy of books on human belief, Why People Believe Weird Things, How We Believe, and The Science of Good and Evil. His other works include In Darwin’s Shadow, about the life and science of the codiscoverer of natural selection Alfred Russel Wallace; The Borderlands of Science, about the fuzzy land between science and pseudoscience; and Denying History, on Holocaust denial and other forms of historical distortion. He is also the general editor of The Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudo-science.

Dr. Shermer received his B.A. in psychology from Pepperdine University, his M.A. in experimental psychology from California State University, Fullerton, and his Ph.D. in the history of science from Claremont Graduate University. He lives in southern California.

“MEATY ACCOUNTS OF SUCH INTERESTING PROBLEMS AS COUNTERFACTUALITY AND COMPLEXITY IN HISTORY AND OF RECENT CONTROVERSIES IN EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; ENTERTAINING DISCUSSIONS OF THE MOST FAMOUS EPISODE OF STAR TREKMiO THE CAUSES