God and the Folly of Faith: The Incompatibility of Science and Religion (64 page)

real numbers,
187

realism,
58

rebirth,
248

redshift,
170

reductionism,
29
,
42
,
92
,
131
,
143
,
151
,
205
–
208
,
214
,
217
,
218
,
244
,
251
,
262
,
293

Reed, Ralph,
303

Reformation,
39
,
40
,
84
,
99
,
273

reincarnation,
43
,
224
,
238

religious experiences,
97
,
230

Renaissance,
39
,
40
,
273

renormalization,
147
,
150

reproductive rights,
218
,
220

Republican Party,
307
,
308

rest energy,
176

retroactive causality,
43

revelation,
78
,
95
,
97
,
316

Rhine, Joseph Banks,
241

Ricardo, Alonzo,
221

Ring, Kenneth,
233
,
234

Ritchie, Stuart,
241

RNA,
221

Roberts, Eric,
237

Robertson, Absalom Willis,
303

Robertson, Pat,
153
,
303

Rocky Mountain National Park,
22

romanticism,
95

Rosen, Nathan,
160

Rosenbluth, Arturo,
273

Ross, Hugh,
174
,
175

Rothman, Tony,
173

Rouder, Jeffrey N.,
240

Rowland, Sherwood,
311

Royal Astronomical Society,
112

Royal Society of London,
37
,
96

Ruse, Michael,
36

Rush, Benjamin,
93

Russell, Bertrand,
25
,
153
,
288

Russian Orthodox Church,
256

Rutherford, Ernest,
105
,
143
,
148
,
150

Rutherford model of atom,
143

Sagan, Carl,
22
,
190
,
274
,
306
,
311

Salisbury Cathedral,
79

Salk Institute,
35

same-sex marriage,
219

Samos, Island of,
56

Sanpeople,
47

Saturn,
212

scalar fields,
133

scanning tunneling microscope,
158

Scheitle, Christopher,
275
,
276

Schmidt, Alvin,
99

scholasticism,
40
,
63
,
66

Schrödinger, Erwin,
144
,
145
,
147
,
155
,
206
,
247
,
274

Schrödinger equation,
187

Schrödinger quantum mechanics,
144
,
146

Schweitzer, Jeff,
219

Schwinger, Julian,
147

Scientific American
,
221
,
252

scientific realism,
85
,
157
,
162

scientific revolution,
99

Scopes, John,
112

Scopes trial,
112
,
113

Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
310

Second Coming,
245
,
246

second law of thermodynamics,
116
,
128
,
130
,
168
,
177
,
188
,
209

secondary causes,
77
,
78

secondhand smoke,
311

Sedgwick, Adam,
104

Sedley, David,
61

Segal, Alan F.,
223

Seitz, Frederic,
310

Seleucus of Seleucia,
65

selfish gene,
250
,
260

self-organization,
209
,
212
,
215

self-organized criticality,
212

Seventh Day Adventism,
113

Shakespeare, William,
61

Shannon, Claude,
115
,
195
,
274

Sharlet, Jeff,
303

Shermer, Michael,
50
,
252

Shiite ayatollahs,
302

Shimkus, John,
316

Shroud of Turin,
243

Siger of Brabant,
75

Silliman, Benjamin,
67

simplicity,
214
,
292

Sinclair, James,
171

Singer, Fred,
310

singularity,
179

Sipher, Vesto,
169

Skeptic
(magazine),
252

Skinner, B. F.,
50

slavery and the Bible,
254
–
56

Sloan, Richard,
227

S-matrix theory,
148
,
149

Smith, John Maynard,
203

Smith, Joseph,
265
,
278

smoking

and heart disease,
312

and lung cancer,
310
,
312

Snow, C. P.,
301

Sober, Elliot,
200

social Darwinism,
122

sociobiology,
123

Socrates,
52
,
56
,
57

Son of Man,
316

soul,
81

Southern Baptist Convention,
303

Soviet Union,
113

special theory of relativity,
138
,
147
,
244

Specter, Michael,
319

spectral lines,
144
,
169

Spencer, Herbert,
122

spin,
146

Spinoza, Baruch,
81

Spinoza's God,
190

spiritual atheism,
275

spiritual causality,
81

spiritual experiences,
43
,
230
,
264

spirituality,
41
,
56

spooky action-at-a-distance,
156

Sputnik,
113
,
305

Stalin, Joseph,
255

standard model of elementary particles and forces,
42
,
55
,
59
,
92
,
149
,
150
,
159
,
182
,
205
,
213

statistical law,
109

statistical mechanics,
116
,
133
,
155
,
209
,
210

statistical significance,
242

steady-state cosmology,
170

Stefanatos, Joanne,
229

stem-cell research,
218
,
219
,
304

STEP,
227

Stevenson, Ian,
238

Stoicism,
71
,
129

Strategic Defense Initiative (“Star Wars”),
306
,
312

string theory,
150
,
192

strong emergence,
215
,
216

strong nuclear force,
148
,
150

sub-quantum forces,
161

sum over histories,
191

sun's energy,
148

Superconducting Supercollider,
306

superconductivity,
209
,
210

superfluidity,
209
,
210

superluminal influences,
161

Superman,
111

supersymmetry,
185

Supreme Court,
303
,
307

Susskind, Leonard,
175
,
181

Swan, Henrietta,
169

Swedenborg, Emanuel,
92

Swinburne, Richard,
178

Szostak, Jack W.,
221

tabula rasa
,
97

Taoism,
225

Tea Party,
308
,
309

Tegmark, Max,
271

Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre,
202
–
204