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photoreceptive structures, 78

facts, scientific method and, 97

fallacies of evolution argument, 83–87

family values, 130

Fawcett, Henry, xvii, 1

Fedonkin, Mikhail, 143–44

Feynman, Richard, 89, 155

Fieldstead & Company, 112, 114

fine tuning argument, 54–59

Flores Island, discovery of fossil dwarf humans on, 147–48

Forrest, Barbara, 102

Forster, Peter, 149

Fortey, Richard, 144

Fossil Fallacy, 51

fossils, 9, 75, 86

dating of, 16

dogs, ancestry of, 14

intermediate stages, 16

transitional, 9–11, 14, 15, 51, 69, 146–47

founder population, 10

Franks, Bobby, 28

functional adaptation, 65

funding of Intelligent Design movement, 112–14

Futuyma, Douglas, 152

Galápagos Islands, xiii–xiv, 139–40

finches of, xv, 150–51

Gallup polls, 33

Gap creationists, 167

Garden of Eden, 148

Genesis, biblical story of, 148

scientific revision of, 162–65

Genetic Assisted Design (GAD), 77

gene transfer, horizontal, 145

genotypes, 15

geological evidence of theory of evolution, 16

Gilkey, Langdon, 43

God:

belief in, see religion; science and religion, relationship between

existence of, question of, 43–44

Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (ETI) and, 40–44

faith and revelation as avenue to, 44

reasons for, 43

reasons for belief in, 34–38

see also science and religion, relationship between

God of the Gaps argument, 52

God of the Government argument, 90–91

Gogarten, Peter, 145

goose bumps, 19

gossip, 132

Gould, John, xv

Gould, Stephen Jay, 11, 29, 45, 85, 120, 144, 147, 160

Gowaty, Patricia, 151–52

Grant, Peter and Rosemary, 150–51

Gray, Asa, 116

Haeckel’s embryo drawings, 84, 85

hair, body, 19

Hardison, Richard, 83

Hare, Brian, 14

Harper, Charles L., Jr., 114

Harris, Sidney, 52

Harris polls, 129

Hatfield, Elaine, 134

Hawking, Stephen, 54–55, 58

Headquarters Nights (Kellog), 27

heliocentrism, 31, 129

Heltzer, Ruth, 38–39

hemoglobin, evolution of, 73–74

Herschel, John, xvii

Hesperopithecus, 83, 85

homeschooling, 92

homologies, 70–71, 84, 86

Hooker, Joseph, xvi, 116

Horner, Jack, 19–22

Hovind, Kent, 45–46, 50, 87–88

Hox genes, 79

Hubble, Edwin, 159

human evolution, migrational history and modern, 148–49

human genome, 79

human nature, fear of idea of fixed, 31–32

Hume’s Maxim, or, what is more likely?, 48–49, 61

Huxley, Aldous, 155

Huxley, Thomas Henry, 3, 29, 99, 131

hypotheses, scientific method and, 97

hypothetico-deductive method, 21–22, 94–95

Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth? Why Much of What We Teach About Evolution Is Wrong (Wells), 83–84, 110

incipient stages, problem of, 68–69

intellectual attribution bias, 38

Intelligent Design (ID), 33, 167

alternative explanations, lack of, 86

debating, see debating Intelligent Design

funding of the movement, 112–14

Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District, 10, 99, 100–105

real agenda of, 87–88, 104, 106–15

relationship to creationism, 102–4, 108, 110

scientific component of, 111

in search of the designer, 34–44

teaching of, see teaching of Intelligent Design

intermediate fossil stages, 16

invisible hand, Adam Smith’s theory of, 136–37

Irreducible Complexity argument, 66–71

jawless lamphrey fish, 74

John Paul II, Pope, 113, 114, 116, 120, 124, 128

Johnson, Phillip, 52–53, 106, 108–9

Johnson, Rob, 106

Jones, Judge John E., III, 102, 104–5

Journal of Researches (Darwin), xiii

Kansas State Board of Education, xix

Keats, John, 158

Kellog, Vernon L., 27

Kenyon, Dean, 102

Kettlewell, Bernard, 85

Kevorkian, Jack, 100

Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District, 10, 99, 100–105

Known and the Unknown principle, 49

Kristol, Irving, 31

Kurzweil, Ray, 41

laboratory experiments, inability to demonstrate evolution in, 75–77

Lamia (Keats), 158

Law of Conservation of Information (LCI), 71–73

Lazcano, Antonio, 141–42

Leonard, Jennifer A., 14

Leopold,