Why Darwin Matters_ The Case Against Intelligent Design - Michael Shermer [91]
creation stories of other cultures, 168
Crowell Trust, Henry P. and Susan C., 112
Dalai Lama, 120
Darrow, Clarence, 25, 27–28
Darwin, Charles, 139–40
autobiography, 3–4
background of, 116–17
coral reefs, theory of, 2–3
creationism and, xv
death of daughter Anne, 118
Descent of Man, 130–31
diaries, notebooks, and journals of, xiii, xiv, xv, xvi
Galápagos legend, xiv–xv
Origin of Species (Darwin), see On the Origin of Species (Darwin)
path to arriving at theory of evolution, xv–xvi, 116–19
religious attitudes, 116–19
study of theology, 5, 116–17
Darwin, Emma, 119
Darwin, Erasmus, 116
Darwin, Robert, 116
Darwin on Trial (Johnson), 52–53
Darwin’s Dictum, 2
data:
hypothetico-deductive method and, 21
relative roles of theory and, 2, 3
dating techniques, 15–16
Davis, Percival, 102
Dawkins, Richard, 7, 9, 14–15, 29, 45, 73, 160
Day-Age creationists, 167
debating Intelligent Design, 45–88
Anthropic Principle, 54–59
Conservation of Information, 71–75
Design Inference, 59–62
Explanatory Filter, 62–65
icons of evolution are fallacies, fakes, or frauds, 83–87
Irreducible Complexity, 66–71
Microevolution and Macroevolution, 77–80
positives of, 88
randomness cannot produce complex specified design, 82–83
reasons for, 46–47
Second Law of Thermodynamics argument, 81–82
skeptical principals for, 48–53
“we cannot observe evolution” argument, 75–77
deception detection, 136
Dembski, William, 62–63, 71–73, 106–7, 110, 111
Democrats, acceptance of evolution by, 129
Demon-Haunted World, The (Sagan), 154
Descent of Man (Darwin), 130–31
Design Inference argument, 59–62
Design Revolution, The (Dembski), 111
differential reproductive success, 7
Digging Dinosaurs (Horner), 19–20
dinosaurs, 69
Discovery Institute, 31, 112–14
diseases as example of natural selection, 75
disulfide bonds, 76, 77
DNA:
Law of Conservation of Information and, 74–75
unsolved questions on origin of, 141–42
Dobzhansky, Theodosius, xxii
dogs, evolution of, 13–14
E. coli bacterium, 75
ear muscles, extrinsic, 19
earth, dating of the, 16
creationists and, 30
Edwards v. Aguillard, 96–99, 102, 108
Either-or Fallacy, 50, 63, 95
Eldredge, Niles, 11
emergent property, 64, 65, 160
Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, An (Hume), 52
entropy, 81
Esalen Institute, 155
eubacteria, 70
eugenics, social Darwinism and, 26–27
eukaryote cells, 73, 86, 143, 145, 146
evangelical Christians, xx–xxi, 107, 112
acceptance of evolution by, 127–28
evidence, convergence of, see convergence of evidence
Evolutionary creationists, 167
evolutionary developmental biology, 78–79
“evolution in action” argument, 75–77
evolution (theory of evolution):
acceptance of, 21–22, 29–30, 126–30
compatibility with religion, 113, 114, 122–25, 138
convergence of evidence, 12–15, 51, 87
cultural influence of, xxii
current controversies, 141–53
Darwin and, see Darwin, Charles
definitions of evolution, 6
demographics and acceptance of, 128–29
fossil evidence, see fossils
as historical science, 2, 9
initial response by Shermer to, xvi–xvii, 1
key tenets of, 6–7
major shifts in evolution, explanations for, 144–45
natural selection, see natural selection
popular lack of knowledge about, 32–33
preponderance of evidence, xxi
reasons Christians and conservatives should accept, 129–38
reasons for resisting truth of, 30–32
scientific community’s acceptance of, xvii, 21–22, 126–27
significance of, xxii
social Darwinism and, 26–27
tests of, see tests of evolutionary theory
unsolved problems in, 141–53
exaption, 68–69
exoheresies, 88
expanding universe, 58–59, 159
explanations, scientific vs. supernatural, 98, 162
Explanatory Filter argument, 62–65
eyelid, third, 19
eyes, 117
as evidence of natural design, 17
evolutionary history of, 16–17, 78–79, 82–83
irreducible complexity argument