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liberal creationism, 31–32

Liebnitz, Gottfried, 126

Lilly, John C., 155

Lincoln, Abraham, 132

lines of evidence, 12

Loeb, Richard, 28

Lubbock, John, 6

Lyell, Charles, xvii, 2

lying, 133–34, 135–36

MacLellan Foundation, 112

Macmillan’s Magazine, xvii

McNamara, Robert, 140

macroevolution, 75, 77–80

Maker of Heaven and Earth (Gilkey), 43

Marburger, John H., III, xix

Margulis, Lynn, 73, 92–93, 142, 145–46

Mars, evidence of life on, 11–12

mass extinction events, 144

Mayr, Ernst, xvi–xvii, 6, 10–11, 29, 150

Mencken, H. L., 25, 26

methodological naturalism, or, no miracles allowed, 52–53

methodological supernaturalism, 53

Meyer, Stephen, 60, 106–7, 113, 143

Microevolution and Macroevolution argument, 75, 77–80

militarism, social Darwinism and, 26, 27

Mill, John Stuart, 46

Miller, Kenneth, 102

Miller-Urey experiment, 83, 86

miracles, 52–53

Hume’s Maxim, 48–49, 61

mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), 14, 73, 149

“mitochondrial Eve,” 149

Monaghan, Tom, 100

monogamy:

monogamous species, 80

serial, 134

moon, dating of the, 16

Moon, Reverend Sun Myung, 110

Moore’s Law of computer power, 41

moral degeneration, equating evolution with, 31

moral values, evolution and, 130–36

Morris, Henry, 81, 102, 110

Mount Wilson Observatory, 159–60

mouse genome, 79

multiverse (multiple universe), 58–59

Murchison meteorite, 141

NASA, 11–12

National Center for Science Education, 102

National Museum of Natural History, 14

National Religious Broadcasters, 108

natural selection, xvi, 7–9, 78, 136, 138

as bottom-up designer, 6, 65

direct evidence for, 150–51

diseases as examples of, 75

microevolution and, 80

randomness argument, 82–83

rules of, 7

sexual selection and, 151–52

species distribution and, 47

Natural Theology: or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, Collected from the Appearances of Nature (Paley), 4, 6

Nature, 85

Nebraska Man, 83

necessity and chance, 89–90

Nelson, Paul, 106–7

neo-Darwinism, 146

Newton, Sir Isaac, 52, 158–59

New York Times, The, xix, 112, 113

nihilism, 31

nipples, male, 18

“No Free Lunch theorems,” 72

nonfunctional pseudogenes, 74

“nonoverlapping magisteria” (NOMA), 120

null hypothesis, 121–22

observational verifications, prediction and, 2–4

Observation of Evolution argument, 75–77

Of Pandas and People (Kenyon and Davis), 100, 101, 102–4

previous versions of, 102–3

transitional fossils and, 9–10

Old Earth creationists, 166

On Liberty (Mill), 46

On the Origin of Species (Darwin), xv, 29

initial response to, xvi–xvii, 3

quotes from, 1, 66, 126

original sin, 131

origins of life, unsolved questions on, 141–42

Overton, Judge William R., 95–96

Pachyrhachis problematicus (cretaceous snake), 17–18

Padian, Kevin, 102

Paley, William, 4, 6

pantheism, 123

Parker, Gary, 102

patterns, the brain’s seeking of, 38–39, 160

Pax-6 genes, 78, 79

Pearcey, Nancy, 31

Pennock, Robert, 67, 102

peppered moths, 84, 85

Pew Research Center, xvii–xviii, 128

phenotypes, 15

Piltdown Man, 83, 85

polar bears, 9

politics, 132

polygamous species, 80

Popper, Karl, 121

Poupard, Cardinal Paul, 113

prayer, intercessory, 122

prediction, observational verification and, 2–4

Principia Mathematia (Newton), 52

Principles of Geology (Lyell), 2

problem of incipient stages, 68–69

Progressive creationists, 167

prokaryote cells, 73, 143

gene transfer between, 145

Prothero, Donald, 51

Psalms 19:11, 4

punctuated equilibrium, 11

Ray, John, 4

reciprocal altruism, 130, 132, 133

Rees, Sir Martin, 55

Rehnquist, Judge William, 98

religion, 94

compatibility of theory of evolution and, 113, 114, 122–25, 138

development of, 132–33

evolution-creation debate, real agenda of, 87–88, 104, 106–15

and science, relationship of, see science and religion, relationship between

spirituality, 157–59

Republicans,