God and the Folly of Faith: The Incompatibility of Science and Religion (62 page)

Lamont, Corliss,
223

Lao Tzu,
278

Laplace, Pierre-Simon,
92
,
93
,
269

Large Hadron Collider (LHC),
150
,
306

last judgment,
246

Laudan, Larry,
114

law of complexity and consciousness,
202

law of conservation of information,
115

law of universal gravitation,
86

Lawrence, Ernest O.,
148

laws of motion,
86

laws of physics,
42

Leakey, Richard,
274

Leibniz, Gottfried,
89

Leibniz's calculus,
206

Lemaître, Georges-Henri,
34
,
168
,
170

Lemon Test,
114

Lemon v. Kurtzman
,
114

lepton,
150

Leucippus,
54
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59
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92

Lewis, C. S.,
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,
258

liberal theology,
286

Libet, Benjamin,
267

life

beginning of,
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definition of,
218

on other planets,
218

light

particle theory of,
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,
143

wave theory of,
130
,
142
,
155

light horizon,
139

Lindberg, David,
48
,
75

linear vector algebra,
145

Linker, Damon,
302

Linnean Society,
103

Lloyd, Seth,
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196

locality,
138
,
161

Locke, John,
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–
97

Lodge, Oliver,
239

logos,
194
,
196

Long, Jeffrey,
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,
235

Lorentz, Hendrick,
132
,
137

Lorenz, Edward,
211

Los Alamos,
147

Louisiana creationism law,
114

Louisiana Legislature,
315

Lucretius,
59
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60
,
61
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65

Luther, Martin,
18
,
84
,
129

Lutheran, Church,
286

Lyell, Charles,
102
,
104

Mach, Ernst,
158

Magellanic Cloud,
158

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi,
131

Mao Tse-tung,
255

Masjid al-Tawhid mosque,
112

material cause,
63

materialism,
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116
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194
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94

matrix algebra,
144

Maxwell, James Clerk,
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136
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Maxwell's equations,
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132
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136
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137

Mayo clinic,
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McBride, Margaret,
255

McCain, John,
306

McMullin, Ernan,
141
,
154
,
244

mechanical causality,
81

Medieval Ages,
70

medieval universities,
72

megachurches,
308

memeplex,
124

memes,
123
,
124
,
126

memetics,
123
,
124

memetic theory of religion,
123

Mencken, H. L.,
112

meta-analysis,
242

Methodism,
95

Methodist Church,
286

Michelson, Albert,
136
,
137

Michelson interferometer,
136

microtubules,
270
,
271

Middle Ages,
39
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70
,
74

Miller, Kenneth,
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118

Miller, Stanley,
220

mind, nature of,
29

mind-body duality,
81
,
93

mindfulness,
247

mind over matter,
263

miracles,
243

MIT,
147

Mlodinow, Leonard,
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93

model-dependent reality,
191

Monod, Jacques,
274

monotheism,
39

Montgomery, Peter,
303

Monton, Bradley,
119

Moody, Raymond,
231

Mooney, Chris,
304

Moore, Aubrey,
273

moral law,
257
,
258

morality,
99

nature of,
44

source of,
29
,
250
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54
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256
–
58

More, Thomas,
61

Morey, Richard D.,
240

Moritz, Albrecht,
221

Morley, Edward,
136

Morris, Henry,
113

Mount Wilson Observatory,
169

Moynihan, Daniel Patrick,
301

M-theory,
192
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193

Muhammad,
67
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254
,
265
,
278

multiple universes,
182
,
193

evidence for,
181

multiverse,
29
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62
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74
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78
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193

mystical experiences,
43

mysticism and science,
247

Napoleon,
92

NASA,
171
,
310

National Academy of Sciences,
35
,
225
,
226
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275
,
297
,
306
,
310

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA),
171
,
310

National Association of Manufacturers,
303

National Center for Science Education,
35

National Institutes of Health,
34
,
167
,
263

National Medal of Science,
310

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
317

National Research Council,
314

natural law,
96

natural laws, meaning of,
78

natural philosophy,
28

natural selection,
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105
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120
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natural theology,
40
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95
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101
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122
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167

Nature
magazine,
35

Nazism,
122
,
314

Neanderthal burial sites,
47

near-death experience (NDE),
43
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230
–
37
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294

nebular hypothesis,
92
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95

Nelson, Kevin,
231

Neoplatonism,
74

Neumann, Dale,
15

Neumann, Madeline Kara,
15
,
16
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24

neural noise,
266

neuroquantology,
277

neuroscience,
295

neurotransmitter,
270

New Age,
131
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157
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206
,
276
,
293

new atheism,
298

New Testament,
223
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253
,
254
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316

New Yorker
,
60

Newberg, Andrew,
265

Newton, Isaac,
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40
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Newton's constant,
89
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185

Newton's law of gravity,
88
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131
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132

Newton's laws,
93
,
206

Newton's theory of gravity,
140

Newtonian mechanics,
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90
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127
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294