Why Darwin Matters_ The Case Against Intelligent Design - Michael Shermer [94]
ribs, thirteenth set of, 18
RNA, 142
rocks, dating of, 16
Roughgarden, Joan, 151–52
Royal Institute of Technology, 14
Rumsfeld, Donald, 139, 140–41
Sagan, Carl, 57, 154, 157–58
same-sex sexuality, 151
same-world model of relationship between religion and science, 120
Savolainen, Peter, 14
Scalia, Judge Antonin, 98
Schönborn, Cardinal Christof, 113
school curricula, 26, 91–93
court cases, see court cases
Schopf, William, 12, 142
science, 89–105
defined, 94
Edwards v. Aguillard and criteria of, 96–99
the real agenda of Intelligent Design, 87–88, 104, 106–15
refutability of a claim, 121
relevance of, 154–61
religion and, see science and religion, relationship between
spirituality and, 158–59, 161
in textbooks and curricula, process for inclusion in, 91–93
Science, 14, 75
science and religion, relationship between, 28–29, 30, 31–32, 94, 116–25
compatibility of, 113, 114–15, 122–25, 138
conflicting-worlds model, 119–20
God as a null hypothesis, 121–22
same-world model, 120
separate-worlds model, 120–21, 122–25, 127
scientific community, agreement on evolution of, xvii, 21–22, 126–27
scientific method, 94, 96–98, 111
self-correcting feature of, 85
Scopes, John Thomas, 25
Scopes trial, 23–24
instigation of, 25
real legacy of, 25–29
social Darwinism and, 26–28
Scott, Eugenie, 166
Second Law of Thermodynamics argument, 81–82
Secular Humanism, 93
Sedgwick, Adam, xvii
self-organization, 64–65, 160
separate-worlds model of relationship between religion and science, 120–21, 122–25, 127
serial monogamy, 134
sex-role reversal, 151
sexual fidelity, 133–35
sexual selection, 79–80, 151–52
Shannon, Claude, 72
Shermer, Michael:
creationist beliefs, earlier, xx–xxi
Galápagos Islands, retracing Darwin’s steps at, xiii–xiv, 140
Shermer’s Last Law, 40, 64
Singularity, 41
skeptical principles for investigating Intelligent Design, 48–53, 61
Smith, Adam, 136, 137
Smithsonian Institution, 113
snakes, vestigial organs and, 17–18
social Darwinism, 26–28
solar system, dating of the, 16
species:
definition of, 6, 79
distribution of, explanation of, 47
immutability of, xvi
precipitation of speciation, 79–80
Spencer, Herbert, 49
spirituality, 157–59
state boards of education, exclusion of evolution from curricula by, 26
Stenger, Victor, 57
Stewardship Foundation, 112, 114
string theory, 57
Student’s Darwin, The (Aveling), 118–19
Sulloway, Frank, 34, 36, 38, 139–40
study of Darwin and his arrival at theory of evolution, xiii, xiv–xv
sun, dating of the, 16
supernatural explanations, 98, 162
Supreme Court, 95
Edwards v. Aguillard, 96–99, 102, 108
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman (Feynman), 155
syllogistic reasoning, 24
symbiogenesis, 92–93, 145–46
teaching of evolution:
“equal time” argument, 166
exclusion from the curricula, 26
fears of public school teachers, 33
see also textbooks, biology
teaching of Intelligent Design:
Bush statements on, xviii–xix
court cases, see court cases
God of the Government argument, 90–91
survey on, xviii
Templeton Foundation, 114
tests of evolutionary theory:
comparative method, 15
convergence of evidence, 12–15, 51, 87
dating techniques, 15–16
hypothetico-deductive method, 21–22
intermediate fossil stages, 16
vestigial structures, 17–19
textbooks, biology, 26, 91–93, 127–28
Theistic Evolutionists, 167
theories, scientific, xix–xx, 1–2, 97
evolution, see evolution (theory of evolution)
relative roles of data and, 2, 3
thioredoxin, 76
Thomas More Law Center (TMLC), 100, 102
Thompson, Richard, 100
Time, 126
Tipler, Frank, 55
Touchstone, 108
transitional species, 9
fossils of, 9–11, 14, 15, 51, 69, 146–47
Transmutation of Species (Darwin), xvi
Truth Cannot Contradict Truth (John Paul II), 116, 124, 128
truth telling, 133–34, 135–36
Twain, Mark, 34