God and the Folly of Faith: The Incompatibility of Science and Religion (63 page)

Newtonian world machine,
90
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121
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122
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145
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153
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194
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269
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294

Nichols, Peter,
106

Nierenberg, William,
310

Nirvana,
224

NOAA report on global temperatures,
317

Nobel Peace Prize,
314

Nobel Prize,
311

no-boundary model,
190
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193

NOMA,
35
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225
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See
non-overlapping magesteria

nonalgorithmicity,
270

Nones,
284

non-Euclidean geometry,
98

nonlinear dissipative system,
211

nonlocality,
138
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161
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162

non-overlapping magisteria (NOMA),
33
,
98
,
277

Norris, Pippa,
253

Notarbartolo-di-Sciara, Giuseppe,
219

nothing, defining,
192

nous,
57

nuclear bomb,
304

nuclear fusion,
105
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187
,
321

nucleosynthesis,
216

Obama, Barack,
205
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306
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307

OBE,
232
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237

Ockham, William of,
76

Ockham's razor,
181

Old Testament,
223
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253
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254

Omega Point,
202
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203
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204

ontological irreducibility,
208

Oreskes, Naomi,
310
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312
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313

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development,
120

Origen,
33

origin of life,
117
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209
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220
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221

Origin of Species
,
102
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106
,
107
,
122

origin of the universe,
168

oscillating universe,
188

Osiander, Andreas,
85

out-of-body experience (OBE),
232

overpopulation,
219

Overton, William R.,
114
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119

Owen, Richard,
104

Oxford Circle,
37
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106
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107

Oxford University,
72
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74

ozone hole,
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313

Page, Don,
179
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180

Paley, William,
101
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102
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108
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167
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200

pantheism,
73
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81

paranormal,
242

paranormal phenomena,
239
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295

parapsychology,
239
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241
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277

Paris, University of,
72
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73

Parmenides,
59

Pascal, Blaise,
288

Pascal's wager,
288

Patterson, Elissa,
229

Paul, Saint,
223
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234
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265

Paul, Gregory,
253
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283

Pauli exclusion principle,
210

Pauling, Linus,
274

Peacocke, Arthur,
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216
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217

Penfield, William,
264

Penrose, Roger,
59
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171
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179
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270
–
72

Penzias, Arno,
170

Periodic Table,
55
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148
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210

perpetual motion machine,
128

Persinger, Michael,
265

petroleum,
320

Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life,
308

Pew Research Center,
283

Phillips, Kevin,
301
,
302

Philoponus, John,
129

photoelectric effect,
143

photosynthesis,
271

Pierson, Paul,
309

Pinker, Steven,
258

Planck, Max,
142
,
144
,
206

Planck length,
188

Planck mass,
182

Planck time,
197

Planck's constant,
143
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45
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185
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206

Plantinga, Alvin,
110

Plato,
39
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56
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59
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62
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63
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65
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69
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223

Platonic metaphysics,
157
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160

Plato's theory of forms,
58
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196

Plutzer, Eric,
120

Podolsky, Boris,
160

Poincaré, Henri,
137

Pol Pot,
255

Polkinghorne, John,
154

Pontifical Academy of Sciences,
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170

Pope Benedict XVI,
110
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319

Pope Gregory IX,
73

Pope John Paul II,
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109

Pope Pius XII,
34
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109
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170

positrons,
146
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158

reality of,
158

postevolutionary phase,
260

postmodernism,
86

Powell, Lynda H.,
228

prayer breakfasts,
303

precession of the perihelion of Mercury,
140

precognition,
239

Presbyterian Church,
286

Presbyterian Church of Canada,
284

President's Council on Bioethics,
35

Presocratics,
52
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57

Price, George McCready,
113

primary cause,
77
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78

prime mover,
73
,
77
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81

Princeton University,
147
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191

Principe, Lawrence M.,
32

Principia
, Newton's,
86
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90
,
91

principle of equivalence,
140

principle of Galilean relativity,
82
,
87

Prison Fellowship Ministries,
319

prosperity gospel,
308

Protestant ethic,
37

Provine, William B.,
203

pseudoscience,
41

psychic phenomena,
43
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237
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239
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295

Ptolemaic model,
80

Ptolemy, Claudius,
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79

Pulitzer Prize,
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302

Purgatory,
245
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246

Puritanism,
36
,
37

p-value,
242

Pythagoras,
56

Pythagorean theorem,
56

QED.
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quantum electrodynamics

quanta,
142

quantization,
146

quantum brain,
240
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271
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295

quantum chromodynamics (QCD),
150

quantum coherence,
271

quantum computers,
194
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196
,
294

quantum consciousness,
166

quantum electrodynamics (QED),
147
,
314

quantum field theory,
41
,
147
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148
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150
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162

quantum fluctuations,
186

quantum gravity,
147

quantum mysticism,
41
,
58
,
144
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152

quantum of action,
144

quantum potential,
161

quantum spirituality,
205
,
276

quantum tunneling,
135
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187

quarks,
149
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151
,
181

reality of,
159

qubit,
194

Qur'an,
253

radioactive decay,
109

Ramachandran, V. S.,
264

Ramey, David,
229

Rause, Vince,
265

Ray, Darryl,
124

Reagan, Ronald,
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