Why Darwin Matters (32 page)

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, Nathan,
28

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