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Anthropic Cosmological Principle, The (Barrow and Tipler)
anthropic principle
Apollonius
Aquinas, St. Thomas
Archimedes
Aristotle
Armstrong, Lance
Asimov, Isaac
association learning
astrophotography
astrophysics
atheism
belief in aliens and
skepticism vs.
Atlas Shrugged (Rand)
atropine
attachment therapy (AT)
Attachment Therapy on Trial (Mercer, Sarner, and Rosa)
attribution bias
Australian Aborigines
australopithecines
Austrian School of Economics
authority, book of, vs. book of nature
authority bias
authority/respect values
autism
availability heuristic
Awakenings (film)
axon
ayahuasca
Bacon, Francis
bandwagon effect
Barnum effect
Barrett, Deirdre
Barrow, John
Bartusiak, Marcia
Basalla, George
battle of the books and
Beautiful Evidence (Tufte)
Beautiful Mind, A (film)
Beck, Glenn
Bedell, John Patrick
belief. See also agenticity; God, belief in; patternicity; and specific beliefs and scientific debates
Bacon four idols and
causes of
Collins’s epiphany and
confirmations of
creativity and
D’Arpino’s voice and
defined
Dyson on
evidence and
genetics and
Groopman on
journey to skepticism from
Middle Land of
natural vs. supernatural and
neurochemistry of
polls of
power of
response time and
types of
worldview and
belief-dependent realism
believability bias
Bell, Art
Bem, Daryl
Bergson, Henri
Berra, Yogi
Besso, Michele
Betelgeuse
Bible
big bang
Big (film)
“Big Galaxy” Hypothesis
Bill of Rights
binding, neurological process of
Biological Universe, The (Dick)
Blackmore, Susan
Blanchard, Brent
Blanke, Olaf
Blank Slate, The (Pinker)
Bloom, Paul
Bodies in Water (Galileo)
body schema
BOLD (Blood Oxygen Level-Dependent) signal
Bouchard, Thomas
brain. See also specific parts
agenticity and
automatic vs. controlled processes and
belief and
confirmation bias and
evolution of
face recognition and
God and
hallucinations and
left vs. right hemisphere and
mind and
neural networks and
patternicity in
scientific study of
sensed presences and
storytelling and
theory of mind and
brain scan studies
Branch Davidians
Branden, Nathaniel
Brattstrom, Bayard
Brin, David
Brosses, Charles de
Brown, Dan
Brugger, Peter
Buhl, Hermann
Bunsen, Robert
burden of proof
Burns, Jennifer
Bush, George H. W.
Bush, George W.
Cabrinovic, Nedeljko
Callander, John
Calvin, Melvin
Candide (Voltaire)
capitalism
Carrey, Jim
Carroll, Sean
Carson, Johnny
Carter, Chris
Catania, Charles
Catholic Church
CBS Evening News
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Cepheid variables
cerebral cortex
Chabris, Christopher
Challenger disaster
changeover delay (COD)
Channon, Lt. Col. Jim
Charles Bonnett syndrome
Cheating Death (Gupta)
chemical transmitter substances (CTS)
Cheney, Dick
Chewong people
Cheyne, James Allan
Chopra, Dr. Deepak
Christians and Christianity
born-again or evangelical
Christianson, Gale
Chronicles of Narnia, The (Lewis)
Churchill, Winston
Civilized Life in the Universe (Basalla)
Clancy, Susan A.
Clark, Andy
Clarke, Arthur C.
Clerke, Agnes
Clinton, Bill
Cloninger, Robert
clustering illusion
Coast to Coast (radio show)
Cobain, Kurt
cognitive biases
science to detect
cognitive neuroscience
Cohen, Geoffrey
Cohen, Mark S.
Cole, USS
Collins, Dr. Francis
Columbia space shuttle
Columbus, Bartholomeo
Columbus, Christopher
Colwell, John
Coming of Age in the Milky Way (Ferris)
Comings, Dr. David
Communion (Strieber)
comparative method
confabulation bias
confirmation bias
Conflict of Visions, A (Sowell)
consciousness
conservatives
consistency bias
conspiracy theories
defined
real conspiracy vs.
why people believe
Constitution of Liberty, The (von Hayek)
constrained vision (of human nature)
Contact (Sagan)
control, influence on beliefs
convergence zones, brain regions and
Conway-Morris, Simon
Cook, James
cooperation
Copernicus
corpus callosum
cortex
cosmic chauvinism
Coveyou, Robert
creation
God and question of
scientific theories of
creationists
creativity
Cremonini, Cesare
Crichton, Michael