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bIblIography 251
Wallace, correspondence with, 11, religion, as a, 5
177 religious arguments of, 205–206,
Wallace, opinion on, 178 209–210
See also On the Origin of Species social impact, 20–21
(Darwin); specific topics top-down or bottom-up, 37–38
Darwin, Charles, quoted on See also neo-Darwinism; tree of life;
anomalies in species, 205–206 specific topics
belief in the Bible, 98 Darwin’s Black Box (Behe)
changing conviction to evolution, 11 arguments against, 87
distribution of species, 11 blood clotting cascade, 94, 98
eyes, 75 cells, complexity of, 83, 89
geological record, 50 intelligent design movement and,
inheritance, laws of, 17 66
irreducible complexity, 84 molecular machines, 103
mental faculties of higher animals, mouse trap, 99
43 Darwin’s finches, 27–28, 42–43
misery, 207
Davies, Paul, 71
natural selection, 40 Dawkins, Richard
origin of life, 3, 37, 106
anti-religious bias, 182–183
profitable variations, 17 on atheism, 3, 46, 90
religion and animals, 43
on design, appearance of, 68
transitional forms, 48, 50
on theodicy, 207–208
tree of life, 37
variation, cause of, 17–18 death, unreal nature of, 154–155
dehumanization and Darwinism, 21
varieties becoming species, 14–15
vertebrates limbs, 38 Dembski, William A.
on completeness of fossil record, 50
Darwin, Erasmus, 9
The Design Inference, 66
Darwinism
on transitional forms, 55
cars, evolution of, 24, 39
dehumanization and, 21 Denton, Michael, 65
description of, 12–13, 81 Descent of Man, The (Darwin), 43
dogma, 20–25, 40, 45 design. See intelligent design
early concepts for, 9–13 Design Inference, The (Dembski), 66
early opposition to, 3, 4, 13–14 devolution from common ancestor,
influence of, 1, 2–4, 20–21 125
materialism, 4, 46 devolution of the soul, 211
naturalism, 4, 66 dinosaurs, 56–58
neo-Darwinism, common factors, 14 distribution of matter (Q), 149–150
paradigm shift, need for, 195–196 DNA