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Note: The page "numbers" shown below are relative to what they would be if one printed out the entire volume. Each link below goes to the top of the sub-section where the item is discussed or referenced.
Abiogenesis. See Spontaneous generation
Absolute spirit, 381
Accretion theory, 293
Acquired characteristics. See Lamarckism
Acton, Lord, quoted on: big government, 423; French Revolution, 34
Adam: creation of according to Michaelangelo, 377; denial of, 370, 463 n 12, 463 n 26
Agassiz, Louis: belief in Genesis Flood, 350; ice age, 95; opposed to C. Darwin, 370; 96
Agate: formation of, 87
Age of the earth: bore-hole project, 286-87; current estimate, 299-300; Dead Sea, 289-90; early records, 283; heat transfer, 291-94; sea salts, 288; textbook values, 294; uranium salts, 290-91
Age of the moon: dust, 329; lunar laser ranging, 329-30; radiometric rocks, 303-4
Ager, Derek: problems in geology, 113-14
Albright, William: archaeological work of, 386
Alfonso, King of Castille: 444 n 1
Altruism, work of: P.A. Kropotkin, 79; E.O. Wilson, 413
American Civil Liberties Union: Marxist inspired, 428; Scopes trial, 454 n 22
American Ethical Union: background, 428
American Humanist Association: background, 428; philosophy, 421-22; UNESCO connection, 429
Anaxagoras: doctrine of dualism, 444 n 23
Anglican Church: adopts theistic evolution, 377-80; capitulates to Lyell, 462 n 11; evangelical, 344-45; thirty-nine articles, 121
Anglo-Catholicism: origins in the Oxford movement, 373
Antarctica: coal, 97; ice, recent, 100, 448 n 26; mummified seals, 459 n 5
Anthropopithecus erectus. See Java man
Anticline. See Bent rocks
Antikythera device, 444 n 3
Apartheid: policy in S. Africa, 262
Ape to man communication, 254, 456 n 32
Ape: appendix, 268; chromosomes, 254; os penis, 254
Aphrodite, 291
Apollo program: exploration of moon, 329-30
Appendix: man and ape, 268; vestigial, 267-68, 273
Aquinas, Thomas: Council of Trent, 19; influence of Aristotle, 443 n 13; influence on Roman Church, 375; legend, 18
Arabs: conquest of Europe, 17; contribution to science, 17; destruction of Egyptian temples by, 461 n 7
Archaeology: confirms Bible, 387; early attempts at, 208
Archaeopteryx: description, 90, 153-55; Jensen's discovery, 178; rejection of, 178, 451 n 3
Archetypes, 362
Aristotle: Alexander, 8; Darwin misquote, 368-69; Galen, 25; God, 17, 397; in Roman Church, 375; retarded science, 10, 37; scala natura, 9,71; teleology, 9; theory of matter, 10; wisdom, 345; works, 8-9, 17
Arius, 116
Arrhenius, Svente: extraterrestrial origin of life, 452 n 25, 195
Asimov, Isaac: moon dust, 328-29; signer of the Humanist Manifesto, 428
Atheist Church of America: a religious organization, 394-95
Aurelius, Marcus: quoted, 341
Aurora, 313
Australopithecines: defined, 243, 249-51; gracile, 251
Australopithecus afarensis. See Lucy
Australopithecus africanus. See Taung skull
Autointoxication, 272-73
Aveling, Edward: atheist, 365-66; Darwin
confronted by, 137
Babylon: Creation epic, 390-91; discovery of, 353; tower of, denied, 366
Bacon, Francis: Freemasonry, 443 n 21; life and works, 26-28, 43, 55
Baghdad batteries: discovery of, 444 n 4
Barnes, Thomas: magnetic decay shows young earth, 332
Bat: evolution of wings, 178; fossil same as today, 175; in stalagmite, 461 n 35
Bathybius haeckelii, 187-90. See also Monera
Battle of the Pyramids, 346
Becquerel, Henri: discovery of radioactivity, 293
Beecher, Henry Ward: trial, 371
Behavioral modification: bias towards in peer review, 467 n 23; by drugs, 424, 467 n 28; work of B.F. Skinner, 418-19; work of Sobels with alcoholics, 419
Bell, Charles, 134
Bergson, Henri: occult involvement, 464 n 16; work, 375
Bible: dating sequence in, 284; fixity of kinds, 39; Latin version, 16; resuscitations, 442 n 2; societies founded, 345
Biddle, John: Unitarian Church, 116
Big-bang theory, 4
Binet, Alfred: craniometry dismissed, 406, measures intellect, 407
Biogenesis, 180. See also Spontaneous generation
Biogenetic law: condemned by Gavin de Beer 274; description, 274-77
Biometrika, journal, 405
Birds of Paradise, 174, 451 n 17
Biston betularia. See Moth, peppered
Boa constrictor: claim for vestigial legs, 270-71
Boas, Franz: geography and human features, 144, 414; influence on Margaret Mead, 416; life and work, 413-14, 416; nurture and intelligence, 405; opposed to eugenicists, 414; worldview, 467 n 25
Bore-hole project, 286-87, 457 n 3, 457 n 4
Borel, Emil: on probability, 201, 453 n 27
Botta, Emil: discovery of Babylon, 353
Boule, Marcellin: Neaderthal man, 211-12; Peking man, 235-40; position, 53
Boulton, Matthew, 55
Bowel movements: frequency of, 273
Bozarth, G.R.: recognizes the importance of Adam, 463 n 12, 463 n 26
Black, Davidson: Peking man, 235-40
Black death: effect on population, 338
Blythe, Edward: natural selection, 125-26
Brain capacity: man's use of, 263
Branchial clefts. See Pharyngeal arches
Breuil, Henri: Minateda woman and child, 220, 454 n 14; Peking, 238
Bristle-cone pine tree: carbon 14, calibration 321
British Council of Churches, 379, 464 n 25
British museum: discovery of Nineveh, 352; Guadaloupe fossil, 218; Piltdown hoax, 228
Broca, Paul: brain size and intellect, 258, 402
Broken Hill man. See Rhodesian man
Bronowski, J: quote, 198-99; Vatican archives, 22
Bronze age, 208
Bronze Greek horse, 38, 444 n 6
Broom, Robert: discovery at Makapansgat, 243
Bruno, Giordano: victim of Inquisition, 24
Bryan, William Jennings, 425. See also Scopes trial
Buckland, William, 66, 110, 350
Buffalo and cow cross, 142
Buffon, Compte de: life and works, 43-48; planet theory, 44
Burke, Edmund: denounced Lunar society, 56
Burt, Cyril: fraudulent work on twins, 411-12
Calaveras skull: American human fossil, 253; discovery, 216-217; Whitney's work, 454 n 11
Cambridge University, 120
Camel and dromedary cross, 142
Campanella and Galileo, 443 n 15
Canidae. See Dog family
Carbon 14 dating, 313-15; accelerator method, 459 n 6; assumptions, 317, 459 n 7, 459 n 8, 459 n 9; calibration, 320-22; correction factors, 320; early results, 315-16; earth's magnetic field, 318; Egyptian chronology, 462 n 9; half-life, 314-15; production and decay rates, 314, 317-18; vapor canopy, 319; Whitelaw's statistical analysis, 320; young earth indicated, 459 n 4, 459 n 9
Cat and rabbit cross, 142
Catagonus ameghino. See Peccary
Catholic Index of forbidden books, 21, 30, 58, 375; Darwin books, 132; history of, 445 n 7
Cave paintings, 219-20. See also Cro-Magnon man
Cenozoic Research Laboratory, 236
Censorship in the media, 359, 426-27
Chagas' disease, 128
Challenger, H.M.S.: Bathybius haeckelii, 187-90; scope and work, 87, 188, 447 n 8
Chalmers, Thomas: gap theory, 362-63
Chambers, Robert: Vestiges of Creation, 58, 354, 462 n 18
Champollion, Jean-François: biography, 462 n 8; dating, 462 n 10; life and work, 347-48
Chicago Field Museum Conference, 166
Chickadee, 146
Chinese ideograph, 391-92
Chondrite, 184. See also Meteorite
Chou K'ou Tien: Lucy discovery, 248; Peking man, 235-40
Christ, Jesus: object of worship, 341; resurrection of, 342; Son of God, 360
Christianity: best means of attack, 57; first converts, 14; persecution of, 14, 16, 20
Chrysalis, the: image in Potter's church, 372
Churchill, Winston: eugenics, 408
Circumcision: foreskin not vestigial, 269-70; Weismann's statistics for, 48, 445 n 12
Civil War, American: racial origins, 262
Coalbeds in the Antarctic, 97, 447 n 18
Coal mines: temperature rise in, 292, 460 n 26
Coccyx. See Tailbone, vestigial
Colectomy, 273
Colenso, John: life and work, 378-80; publicity given to, 353
Columba livia. See Pigeons
Comet: Halley's, 202; origins, 326-27
Communist: Fascist objectives similar, 467 n 22; Manifesto history, 465 n 28; party, religious aspects of, 341
Condorcet, Marquis of: vision of Utopia, 61
Constantine I, emperor: at Milvern, 16, 442 n 10
Continents sinking, 93-94
Contracting sun, 322-24, 459 n 13
Copernicus, Nicholas: 23-24
Cosmic rays and carbon 14 production, 313-19
Council of Trent, 21
Counter Reformation, 21
Craniometer, 406
Creation: as alternative to evolution, 279; belief in, 344-45, 364; evidence for, 312; not falsifiable, 393; religious aspects, 341; the sculpture portraying, 141; vestigial organs, 265
Crick, Francis: opposed to spontaneous generation, 393; signature to Humanist Manifesto, 428; theory of directed panspermia, 195, 327
Cro-Magnon man: 219-21; Les Cambarelles, 219; Minateda, 220
Curie temperature, 331, 460 n 27
Custance, Arthur: gap theory, 364, 463 n 29
Cuvier, Georges: brain weight, 259; life and work, 46, 49-53; paleontological techniques developed by, 50; theory of the earth, 51, 53, 65, 445 n 15, 445 n 16
Cynodont. See Transition fossils
Cyphanthropus. See Rhodesian man
Dana, James: life and work, 370-71
Dante (Alighieri), 23, 443 n 16
Dart, Raymond: Taung skull, 241-42
Darwin, Charles: Aristotle misquoted, 368-69; Bible knowledge, 119-22, 367; billiards, 98; Biogenetic law, 275; biographies, 115; Cambridge curriculum, 449 n 8; Christianity challenged by, 344; "delicate arrangement", 130, 446 n 14; Descent of man, 207; Edinburgh University, 118; evolution of the eye, 167, 451 n 14; evolution theory, 52, 58, 182, 279-81; Expression of the emotions in men and animals, 134; family, immediate, 126-128; greeted as an atheist, 366; house, 129; Hitler inspired by, 409-11; illness, 127-30; inherited baldness, 48; irreligious nature concealed, 450 n 22; Journal of Researches, 148; Kelvin, 457 n 10, 460 n 26; Lady Hope, 450 n 20, 450 n 21; Lamarckism, 127, 399-400, 466 n 4; laws of nature inviolable, 4; letter to A. Gray, 13-15; life and works, 117-37; Lyell prepared ground for, 353; man of faith, 168; man of wealth, 133; Marx corresponds with, 381; multiple species of man, 262; murder of God, 126; natural selection, 158-59, 399-400; object of worship, 341; occult experience, 75, 446 n 15; on the soul, 446 n 15; Origin, publication of, 130-33, 354-56; perfection, problem of, 451 n 14; personification of nature, 9; pigeons, 130, 138, 148-50; plagiarism, 125; psychology, 134, 450 n 17; secular humanism, foundation for, xii; statute of, 135; transition fossils, 150; Unitarian Church influence, 116; unpublished works, 115, 445 n 6; Variation of plants and animals, 369, 400. See also Origin.
Darwinism: Marxism aligned with, 411; religious aspects, 394; rise of in Germany, 409
Darwin's finches: classified by Lack, 147-148; mentioned by C. Darwin, 148, 450 n 2, 450 n 3
Darwin-Wallace theory, 73
Darwin, Emma, 136-37
Darwin, Erasmus (the elder): Edinburgh University, 121; Lunar Society, 55, 58; racey lifestyle, 118, 120, 449 n 5; Zoönomia, 58, 120
Darwin, Francis, 115
Darwin, George: fission theory for origin of moon, 44, 330; radioactivity suggested to measure age of earth, 294; radioactivity supplies sun's energy, 323
Darwin, Leonard, 408
Darwin, Robert: Freemason, 119, 449 n 3; opposed to Bible, 120
Date of Creation: according to scholars, 283; appended to Bibles, 284
Dawson, Charles, 227-28
Day-age theory, 362
Dead Sea dating from salt, 289-90
Decay constants not constant, 307-08
Declaration of Independence. See American Revolution
"Delicate arrangement", 130, 450 n 13, 450 n 14, 450 n 15
Democracy: vox populi, vox dei, 16
Dental arcade of man and ape, 251
Descartes, René: Christianity challenged by, 344; Fall of man, 207; life and works, 28-30; mind and brain, 258; on the soul, 30
Descent of man, 133, 134, 159; not placed on Catholic Index, 373
Design in nature, 40, 139, 266
Development. See Evolution
Developmental hypothesis. See Documentary hypothesis
De Vries, Hugo: mutation theory, 161, 451 n 11, 162
Dewey, John: signer of first Humanist Manifesto, 425, 428; U.S. education, 425
Dinosaur: eggs, 89, 447 n 11; extinction of, 107; museum collections, 150-51; tracks, 108; tracks with human tracks, 448 n 36, 449 n 37; tracks with wheel tracks, 280
Divine right of kings, 7
Documentary hypothesis, 383-87; archaeology refutes, 387; Chinese history refutes, 392; computer refutes, 386; Ebla discovery refutes, 390-91; Hegelian evolution basis for, 384; work of S.R. Driver, 465 n 31
Dog family, 142-143
Down house, 129-30
Doyle, Arthur Conan: occult involvement, 75; Piltdown affair, 228
Dripstone, 335-36
Drosophila melanogaster. See Fruit fly mutation experiments
Dubois, Eugene, 221-25; confesses skull cap is ape, 238, 455 n 9; Wadjak skulls, 222-24. See also Java man
Dynamo theory, 331
Earth: internal heat, 461 n 32; magnetic field, 331-34, 461 n 30; Magsat, 461 n 31; rotation, 325-26; rotation corrections, 460 n 18, 460 n 19, 460 n 20
Ebla discovery, 389-91; Creation account, 391
Eddington, Arthur: thermonuclear sun, 323
Eddy and Boornazian: contracting sun, 324
Eden, Murray: chance and design, 453 n 29
Edinburgh University: and Darwin, 118; and Hutton, 67; Lunar Society members, 56
Education: humanist influence in, 425
Egypt: dating and carbon 14 calibration, 320, 349, 462 n 9; destruction of temples, 461 n 7; and the Greeks, 348; hieroglyphics deciphered, 346-48; and the Israelites, 348; Napoleon conquers, 346; on the soul, 2-3; pictorial records of, 461 n 6
Einstein, Albert: relativity, 28; velocity of light, 443 n 20; view of God, 397
Eldredge and Gould: punctuated equilibria, 164-66
Ellis, Havelock, 416
Embryo, 274-77. See also Biogenetic law
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 117
Empedocles: Darwin cites, 368; five human senses, 9
Eoanthropus dawsoni. See Piltdown man
Eohippus. See Horse
Epicurus: ascent of man, 206; philosophy, 11
Episcopius. See Gap theory
Equus caballus. See Horse
Erect genital of mammoth, 98-99, 448 n 23
Eugenics: coined by F. Galton, 450 n 12
Evangelical movement: cause of opposition to Darwin, 54; prevents socialist revolution, 54, 445 n 1
Evolution: declared a law, 73, 446 n 13; involves miracle, 393-94; neither provable nor refutable, 392-93; reasons for maintaining, 280-81; religious aspects, 341, 393-95
Ex nihilo Creation, ix, 312-13
Exodus, date of, 384
Extinction of life forms, 172-76
Extraterrestrial origin of life theme, 184, 190-96, 202-03, 452 n 22, 452 n 23
Eysenck and Kamin, 414
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Fabian Society, 427-28 Fascism, 411, 467 n 21, 467 n 22
Fall of man theme, 204-08
Fantasia, x
Faraday, Michael, 359
Feuerbach, L., 382
Fibonacci, Leonardo: Arab numerals, 442 n 12
Finches. See Darwin's finches
FitzRoy, Robert: H.M.S. Beagle, 122; suicide, 124, 129
Fontechevade skull, 215. See Neanderthal man
Fosdick, Harry Emerson: funded by Rockefeller, 372; opposed to fundamentalists, 372, 464 n 14; promoter of liberal theology, 385, 386
Fossil: absence of, 150, 450 n 4, 450 n 5; abundance of, 92; anomolous, 105-9; bat, 173; clams, 90; Coelacanth, 106, 175; dinosaur eggs, 89; feather, 153; fish, 89-90, 447 n 12; flesh reconstructions, 209, 261; formation, 85-87; horse evolution, 152-53; human jaw, 91; human skull, 91, 447 n 14, 102, 216-217, 230-31, 230, 244-45, 455 n 18, 246-47, 253; ichthyosaur, 88-89; insects, 89, 447 n 10; living, 448 n 32, 448 n 33; plesiosaurus, 86; polystrate tree, 114; sabre-tooth tiger, 91, 447 n 13; teeth, 88, 454 n 2; transitions, 150-58; whales, 93, 447 n 16 See also Archaeopteryx
"1470" man, 246-47
France, Anatole, 258-259
Franco, General: object of worship, 340
Frazer, James, 387-89
Free love: scientific sanction for, 416-18
Freeman, Derek: exposes Margaret Mead, 417
Freemasonry: and Francis Bacon, 443 n 21, 445 n 3; in Darwin family, 119, 449 n 3
Freiberg skull, 102-3
French Revolution, 31-35; cause of, 34; Christianity challenged by, 344; English hostile to, 54; goddess of Reason, 34; Lord Acton quoted, 34; Lunar Society, 56; metric system, 34; socialist humanism, 36; Statue of Liberty, 35
Fruit fly mutation experiments, 162-63
Galapagos islands, 147
Galen, 17
Galileo (Galilei): biblical arguments, 443 n 15; comets controversy, 443 n 17; life and work, 22-25; sun-spots, 325; telescope, 443 n 17; Vatican archives, 22
Gall, Franz Joseph, 401
Galley Hill man, 215. See Neanderthal man
Galton, Francis, 127; coins eugenics, 450 n 12; life and works, 402-8
Gauss, Karl: brain weight, 259; magnetic field of earth, 331-33, 460 n 29
Genesis: affirmed by N.T. writers, 370, 463 n 11; two accounts of creation, 180
Genesis Flood, 49, 57-58, 65, 70-71, 123, 125; acknowledged by Catholic and Protestant church until recently, 344-45, 366; acknowledged by Christ, 360; atmospheric pressure, 459 n 10; Babylon account of, 384-85; in Chinese records, 391-92; difficulties of, 110; and Egyptian dating, 348; fossils as evidence for, 218, 350, 362; legends of, 387-88, 465 n 37, 465 n 38, 465 n 39; Mosaic account, 383; object of skepticisim, 343; and population growth, 339; reproductive-repopulation model, 111-13; unacceptable to many, 365; Whitcomb and Morris model, 111
Genesis kinds, 138-139
Gentry, Robert: radio-halos, 311-12
Geological Society, 66, 227-28
Geospizinae. See Darwin's finches
Germ theory: and Pasteur, 181; and Weismann, 48
German National Socialist Party, 408, 411. See also Nazi Party
Gigantopithecus blacki, 234
Gill-slits in human embryo alleged, 277-278
Glénard, Frantz: viseroptosis, 272
Goddard, Henry, 407-408
Gorilla: discovery of, 142
Gosse, Edmund: contrived acceptance of Origin, 355, 462 n 19
Gosse, Philip: and Adam's navel, 462 n 20; encounter with Darwin, 354-355
Gould, S.J.: paraphrased, 165; re-analysis of S. Morton's work, 263
Gould and Eldredge: punctuated equilibria, 165; reject Archaeopteryx, 178. See Eldredge and Gould
Graf-Wellhausen hypothesis. See Documentary hypothesis
Graham, Robert: human sperm bank, 415
Grand Canyon, 100
Grant, Madison, eugenicist, 408-409
Gray, Asa: Darwin's letter to, 131, 450 n 13, 450 n 14, 450 n 15; promoter of theistic evolution, 367-71
Gray, Jane: Unitarian influence on Asa, 367, 463 n 3
Greek technology: Antikythera device, 444 n 3; architecture, 32-33; bronze horse, 38, 444 n 6
Guadaloupe fossils, 215-18, 253
Gutenberg, Johann, 21,
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n 18
Haeckel, Ernst: Bathybius haeckelii, 187-90, 452 n 12, 452 n 14, 452 n 15, 452 n 16, 452 n 18; Biogenetic Law, 274-77; branded a fool, 184; fraudulent embryos, 275-277, 456 n 4, 456 n 9, 456 n 16; euthanasia advocated, 409; evolution elitist, 411; family tree, 177-178; Frida von Uslar-Gleichen, 185-87, 452 n 8, 452 n 10; life and works, 184-87, 190, 222, 276, 408-9; monera, 187-90, 196; pantheist, 184; Pithecanthropus alalus, 221; public lectures, 186; Thule Gesellschaft Society, 466 n 16. See also Java man
Haldane, J.B.S., 197. See Oparin-Haldane theory
Haley's comet, 327
Hammond, A.L.: earth and moon system, 330
Ham's son: descendants of, 262
Handy man, 245-47, 455 n 21, 455 n 23, 455 n 26
Hardy-Weinberg law, 406
Harvard University: Unitarian stronghold, 367
Heads of the famous: sizes of, 259
Hegel, Georg: absolute spirit, 381-82; Christianity challenged by, 344; Marx influenced by, 381; philosophy supported by Darwin, 386
Helium: lack of in earth's atmosphere, 334-35
Helmholtz, Herman von, 322-324
Hermetic tradition, 25, 443 n 19
Herpes simplex, 422-23
Hesiod: ages of man, 205, 453 n 1, 453 n 2; Fall of man, 207
Hesperopithecus harold cooki. See Nebraska man
His, Wilhelm, 276
Hitler, Adolf: inspired by Darwin, 409; object of worship, 340; objectives, 409, 467 n 21, 467 n 22
Holmes, A: age of the earth, 299-300
Hominid/Hominoid: definition of, 249
Homo antiquus. See Neanderthal man
Homo erectus. See Java man
Homo erectus pekinensis. See Peking man
Homo habilis. See Handyman
Homo neanderthalensis. See Neanderthal mar
Homo rhodesiensis. See Rhodesian man
Homo sapiens, 41, 210; interfertility, 145
Homo sapiens neanderthalensis. See Neanderthal man
Homo troglodytes, 41
Homology. See Design in nature
Hooker, Joseph, 131, 135, 142; in "delicate arrangement", 74, 355; in Oxford debate, 358
Hookworm: flush toilet eradicates, 466 n 11; germ of laziness, 405
Hopeful monster theory, 164-65
Horace: ascent of man, 207; ode, 12
Horse: evolution of, 152-53; family, 139-140
Howard, Robert: rotation of sun, 325
Howorth, Henry. Theory of ice age based upon flood. 96
Hoyle, Fred: rejects spontaneous generation, 202-3
Human fossils: Calaveras, 216-217, 253, 454 n 11; documentation of, 102, 448 n 28; foot tracks, 108-9, 449 n 38; Freiberg skull in coal, 102, 448 n 29; Galley Hill, 215; Gaudaloupe specimens, 215-18; Laguna, 253, 455 n 29; Rancho La Brea, 91, 447 n 14; Reck's, 244-45, 455 n 18; Rhodesian skull, 229-31; Santa Barbara skulls, 217; Wadjak, 222, 224; Yukon jaw, 91, 447 n 15
Human interfertility, 144-45
Humani Generis, 373-74
Humanist influence in the media, 426-27
Humanist Manifesto: aims, 397; first, 428; second, 420-21
Hutton, James: charged with atheism, 446 n 10; Edinburgh University, 121; theory of the earth, 66-67
Huxley, Aldous: Brave new world, 411, 418
Huxley, Julian: atheist, 394, 397, 465 n 46; synthetic theory, 163; on unification, 424; UNESCO policy, 398, 423-24; world government, 423-24
Huxley, Thomas H: agnostic, 365; ape to man, 256; Bible respected, 365; embryos, 275; Haeckel's monera, 186-89; horse fossils convince, 152; Kingsley confessed to, 365; Origin convinces, 159; Origin reviewed, 358; Oxford debate, 357-59; sophistry in, 458 n 1
Hymen, 270
Hyracotherium. See Horse
Hyrax. See Rock badger
Icaronycteris index. See Bat
Ice age, 95-97; date for, 458 n 18
Ice caves, 100
Ileosigmoidostomy, 272. See also Metchnikoff
Index Librorum Prohibitorum. See Catholic
Index of forbidden books Indian (N. american): intellect measured, 262; skulls, 269
Industrial melanism, 171-72
Industrial Revolution, 36, 53, 55
Ingersoll's reworking of Kelvin's heat data, 294
Inquisition, 21
Institute for Creation Research, 426
Intelligence Quotient, 407. See also Binet, Alfred
Intestine: thought to be vestigial, 456 n 10, 456 n 11
Iron: age, 208; early smelting of, 444 n 5
Isotopes: of argon, 300-1; of helium, 335; of lead, 299-300; of oxygen, 302
Israel: Dead Sea chronometer, 289-90; Dead Sea level falling, 457 n 6
Ivory from frozen mammoths, 97
James, William: and Lowell, 190; the "sixth" sense, 10
Japanese "plesiosaur", 106-7, 426-27; postage stamp, 426
Java man, 221-25; classification, 252; Dubois' confession, 225, 455 n 9
Jesus, 13-14
Jeffrey, Edward: discredits mutation, 161
Jeffries, Harold: earth/moon dynamics, 330
Jensen, James: discovers early bird, 155
Jesuit: Marxist influence in, 376; promotion of theistic evolution 374-77
Jews: divine right of kings, 7; Mosaic law, 12. See also Circumcision
Johanson, Donald: Lucy, 243, 247-49, 455 n 27; rift valley, 289
Joly, John: work on sea salts, 288
Joule heating of the earth, 333,
461
n 32
Keir, James: Lunar Society, 56
Keith, Arthur: classification by brain size, 249; Piltdown hoax, 226-30; Taung skull, 242, 455 n 13; vestigial organs, 267-68
Kelvin, Lord: age of the earth, 292-94; giant of science, 359
Kettlewell, H.B.D., 171-72. See also Industrial melanism
Keynes, John M., 59
Kingsley, Charles: Darwin admirer, 355-57; Father God to Mother Nature, 382; theistic evolution, 377-78; The Water Babies, 356-57
Koczy, Friedrich: uranium salts in sea water 290-91, 457 n 7
Koenigswald, Ralph von: Java, 225; Peking, 234-236
Krakatoa, volcano, 68 Kropotkin, P.A.: animal mutual aid, 79
Krstolich restoration of Neanderthal man, 213
Kruegar, Ivar, 235Kuehneotherium,
156-57.
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also Transition fossils
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La-Chapelle-aux-Saints fossil, 211-12. See also Neanderthal man
Lady Hope: and Darwin's last days, 136-37
Laguna girl. See Human fossils
Lamarck, Jean B: eulogy to, 46, 445 n 11; hymen, unfamiliarity with, 270; life and works, 44-47
Lamarckism: defined, 47; examples, 46, 279; inherited capacity for intellect, 259-60; recent revival of, 48, 445 n 13; in Russia, 48, 52, 260
Lamb, Horace: free decay theory, 331-332
Lamont, Corliss, 421-22
Lane, William A: autointoxication, 272-73; colectomy, 273; New Health Society, 456 n 12
Language: more complex in the past, 255
Laplace, Pierre S. de: Nebular theory, 292-93, 457 n 9
Laughlin, Harry, eugenicist, 408
Layard, Austen H: discovery of Nineveh, 352-53; Documentary hypothesis, 384
Leakey, Louis: Nutcracker man, 243-46
Leakey, Richard: 1470 skull, 246-47; Homo habilis, 252; promotes Biogenetic law, 274, 276; transitions claimed, 157, 165; work, 255
Leap second, 326, 460 n 18, 460 n 20. See also Earth
Ledley, Fred: reports human tail, 278-79
Leucippus: atomistic philosophy, 10
Lewis, C.S., author, 23
Libby, Willard: carbon 14 dating, 314; Egyptian and Bible concordance, 349, 462 n 9
Liberal theologians control institutions, 385
Lightfoot, John: time of creation, 284, 457 n 2
Linnaeus, Carolus: archetypes, 42; classification system, 138-39; life and work, 38-43, 49
Linné, Carl von. See Linnaeus, Carolus
Linnean Society, 43, 66, 74, 130, 445 n 10
Locke, John, philosopher and Unitarian, 116
London, Jack, author and Fabian member, 428
London School of Economics, 428
Lord's Day Observance Society founded, 345
Lovell, Bernard, astronomer, 201
Lowell, Percival, 190-94; Haeckel, influence of, 190, 452 n 19; preconception, 194, 242; 700 Martian canals, 193
Lucretius (Carus): ascent of man, 207; chance can be creative, 369; On the nature of the universe, 11; The nature of things, 13
Lucy: discovered by Johanson, 248, 455 n 27
Lumpers, defined, 145
Lunar laser-ranging experiment, 329-30. See also Moon
Lunar receiving laboratory, 195
Luther, Martin, 20
Lyell, Charles: assumptions in theory, 78-80; Christianity challenged by, 72, 344-45, 350; Cuvier's theory defeated by, 360; Darwin influenced by, 57, 341; "delicate arrangement, 74, 131; expanded time frame, 57, 69, 104, 166, 285; geologic column, 71-72, 102-4; life and work, 52, 66, 69, 135; Miller opposed to, 360; Niagara Falls visit, 81-84, 286, 446 n 1, 446 n 2, 446 n 3, 447 n 4; Owen opposed to, 270; and Prévost, 66; Principles of geology, 58, 68, 76, 124, 133, 285, 383; promotes Origin, 355; uniformitarianism, 68, 446 n 11
Macallam, A.B.: salt in living matter and oceans, 291
Magnetic field of the earth, 331-34. See also Earth
Magsat, 332, 334, 461 n 31. See also Earth
Mahoney, Michael: bias in peer review, 412, 467 n 23
Malthus, Thomas R: contraception objected to, 62; Essay on the principle of population, 59; goats and dogs, account, 59-61; inspired by, 59, 446 n 8; Keynes, opinion of, 63; life and work, 59-60; Marx, opinion of, 64; population, theory of, 61-65; summary of thesis, 78
Mao, Tse-tung: object of worship, 340
Mammoth, frozen: Beresovka, 98-100; erect genital, 98-99, 448 n 23; source of ivory since Aristotle's day, 97, 448 n 20
Man: and ape, 207; appendix, 268; interfertility of, 141, 144-45, 262; multiple origins of, 141, 262, 450 n 1
Mann, Horace, early U.S. educator, 425
Manning, Henry E.: opposed to evolution, 351-352, 462 n 13
Mars: and Percival Lowell, 190-94; Viking Lander, 193
Marsh, Othniel C.: fossil horses, 152
Marx, Karl: abolition of private property, 465 n 1; Aveling, son-in-law of, 137; Communist Manifesto, 383; Darwin, opinion of, 381, 464 n 26; Darwin receives Das capital, 381; Fabian Society inspired by, 427; London citizen, 76, 381; new world order, 376; object of worship, 341
Marxism: rule by the elite, 411
Mason, Brian, 183-84. See also Meteorite
Matterhorn: fossils in reverse order, 114
Matthew, Patrick: inspired Darwin, 125
Matthew, William: inspired Davidson Black, 235
Matthews, Harrison: evolution is a faith, 394
Matthiae, Paolo: on Ebla, 390
Maxwell, James C., giant of science, 359
Mead, Margaret: death, circumstances of, 417, 467 n 26; Freeman unmasks, 417; life and work, 416-18; sex liberator, 422
Medawar, Peter: critique of Teilhard de Chardin's Phenomenon of man, 375-76; neo-Darwinian theory, 164
Mendel, Gregor: Darwin challenged by, 161; Galton refuted by, 402-4; genetics understood, 48; Lamarckism refuted by, 260; life and work, 160-61
Memphis: discovery of Ramses II statue, 286-87. See also Bore-hole project
Meteorite: in Antarctica, 448 n 25; Australian tektite controversy, 328, 460 n 22; carriers of life, 196, 202; dust of, 327-29; organized elements in, 183, 451 n 4; Orgueil, 183-84
Metchnikoff, Elie, 273: alimentary canal vestigial, 272,456 n 10, 456 n 11; on the hymen, 270
Methodist revival, 54
Michelangelo: Sistine chapel ceiling, 377. See also Adam
Miller, Hugh, 361: Mosaic day-age theory, 362; opposed to Vestiges, 360-61; suicide of, 350; works, 360-61
Miller, Stanley: experiment, 199
Milton, John: ages of man, 206; Fall of man 206, 453 n 4; Unitarian beliefs, 116
Mohammed: object of worship, 341
Mohenjo-daro, India, 338
Monitum: condemns Teilhard de Chardin, 375; English translation of, 464 n 19
Moon: age of, 303-4, 330, 458 n 19, 458 n 20, 458 n 21; dust on, 329, 460 n 23; lunar laser ranging experiment, 329-30, 460 n 24; origin a mystery, 460 n 25
Moore, Hugh: crusade to curb population, 337
Morganucodon. See Transition fossils
Morgentaler, Henry: signer of the Humanist Manifesto, 428
Morton, Samuel, 261: skulls, examples, 269; work, 261-64
Moses: Christ refers to, 463 n 25; Documentary hypothesis regards as myth, 383-84; Ebla evidence indicates high education, 390; Miller and Mosaic days, 362, patriarch of the Jews, 12
Moth, peppered, 171-72.
Mouse-tail experiments of Weismann, 48, 445 n 14
Muller, Herman J.: Repository for Germinal Choice, 415
Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, 46, 49, 51, 53
Museum displays, 88
Mutability.
See Evolution
Napoleon I (Bonaparte), 346; conquest of Egypt, 286, 348, 349
Napoleon III (Louis): and Pasteur, 179
National Geographic magazine: ape-man image promoted by, 243-45; censorship of information, 108, 426
National sovereignty: elimination of, 397
Natural history: decline of public interest in, 350
Natural theology. See Natural history
Nature-nurture controversy, 402-20
Nazi Party: Fascist motives, 411; gas chambers, 410; sterilization, 410; See also German National Socialist Party
Neanderthal man, 209-15: beside armor, 215, 453 n 9; burial rites, 4, 215; Field Museum reconstructions, 212-13; living specimens, 215, 453 n 10; possible longevity, 214; skull capacity, 212; supra-orbital torus, 214; syphilis, 214; vitamin B deficiency, 213
Nebraska man, 231-33
Needham, Joseph: English Jesuit, 15, 180
Negro: intellect and racism, 262-63
Neo-Darwinian theory. See Synthetic theory
Neo-Lamarckism, 48
Neutrinos: solar output of, 323
Newman, John Henry, 372: development theory, 373, 464 n 15; Oxford Movement, 373
Newton, Isaac, 29, 43, 66, 135, 342; Bible miracles unaccepted, 342, 365, 461 n 3, 461 n 4; Unitarian beliefs, 116
Niagara Falls: age of, 94-95, 285; Lyell visits, 81-83; rates of recession, 82-83, 447 n 5
Nietzsche, Friedrich: Christianity challenged by, 344; declares God dead, 383
Nineveh: Christian response to, 353, 462 n 14, 462 n 15, 462 n 16; discovery by Layard, 352; Documentary hypothesis seen to be supported by, 385
Noah, ark of: accommodation of species, 142, 145; alleged discovery, 388-89; in Chinese ideographs, 392; Christ acknowledges, 360, 463 n 25; necessity to build, 362
Nobel prize winners' sperm bank, 415
Nuclear waste storage, 337
Nuremberg trials: eugenics movement affected by, 410
Nutcracker man: age of, 243-44,
455
n 16; associated with Reck's fossil, 244-45;
with evidence of a stone shelter, 246
Occult, involvement in by: H. Bergson, 375, 464 n 16; Communist Party, 395; C. Darwin, 75, 446 n 15; C. Doyle, 75; liberal church, 395; Nazi Party, 395; J. Ruskin, 75; A. Tennyson, 75; A.R. Wallace, 75, 446 n 16
O'Hair, Madalyn Murray: object of worship, 341
Oil wells: high pressure, 336-37
Olduvai Gorge, 243-46. See also Leakey, Louis: Nutcracker man
Olympic games, religious aspects, 341
Oparin-Haldane theory, 196-203: amino acid formation, 197; Miller experiment, 199; photosynthesis, 200; protein formation, 197
Orgel, Leslie: coworker with Francis Crick, 195
Orgueil meteorite, 183-84. See also Meteorite
Origen, early liberal theologian, 16, 442 n 11
Origin of moon: George Darwin's fission theory for, 44, 330
Origin of species (On the): Biogenetic law hinted at, 275; Catholic Index does not censure, 373; concordance to, 138; Creator mentioned, 369, 463 n 9; definition of species not given, 145; difficult to read, 132; and Haeckel, 184; Hegel's philosophy supported by, 383, 386; introduction by Thompson, 454 n 16; promotion of, 354-55; publicity given to, 353, 380; reason's alternative to miracle, 380; reception of, 130-33; racism caused by, 403; review by T.H. Huxley, 358; review by B. Powell, 378
Orohippus. See Horse
Osborn, Henry F: eugenicist, 408; horse fossils, 153; Marxist worldview, 454 n 21; Nebraska man examined by, 231-32
Os coccyx. See Tailbone, vestigial
Os penis, 254
Ovid: ages of man, 205; Fall of man, 207
Owen, Richard, 210: ape and man differences, 209-10, 221; opposed to Darwin, 210
Owen, Robert, English socialist, 57
Oxford debate: meeting of the British Association, 357
Oxford Movement, 373. See also Anglo-Catholicism, Newman
Oxnard, Charles: multivariate analysis, 253-54
Oxygen 18 method of dating, 302, 315, 458 n 18, 459 n 4. See also Radiometric dating methods
Oxygen isotope 18 analysis, 95
Paleotragus, 175
Paley, William, 121: clockmaker argument, xi; Darwin influenced by, 121, 444 n 7; opposed to David Hume, 344; religious views exposed, 449 n 9; works, 121
Paluxy River, Texas: dinosaur tracks, 108, 448 n 35, 448 n 36, 448 n 37
Pandora, 205
Panspermia theory, 327
Papyrus Ipuwer: Egyptian and biblical concordance, 349
Parus atricapillus. See Chickadee
Parus carolinus. See Chickadee
Pasteur, Louis: attempt to discredit, 183; bacteria discovered, 198; life and work, 179-84; opposition to, 161; spontaneous generation dealt blow by, 181
Patterson, Colin: declares evolution is anti-knowledge, 393
Pearson, Karl: mathematician with Francis Galton, 404
Peking man, 234-41; classification of, 252; decapitated apes, 238; human fossils found with, 240; reconstruction of skull, 237, 261, 454 n 4, 454 n 6; upper cave, 240; use of fire, 238-39
Pember, George: and the Gap theory, 364
Penguin flipper cited by Darwin, 154-55
Persistence of facies discussed by Ager, 113
Pettersson, Hans: measures meteoritic dust in fall, 328-29
Pettinato, Giovanni: work at Ebla, 390-91
Pharaoh's tomb: carbon 14 calibration, 320-21, 462 n 9
Pharyngeal arches, 277. See Gill-slits
Photosynthesis in Oparin-Haldane theory, 200
Phrenology: craniometer, use of, 406; popularized by F.J. Gall, 401
Phylogenetic chart, 177
Pigeons: Darwin's experiments, 148-50; oil gland in, 264; variations of, 148
Pilbeam, David: on Peking man, 239; on Ramapithecus, 252, 455 n 28
Piltdown man, 225-229; filed teeth, 229; reconstruction of skull, 261
Pineal gland: seat of the soul, 258; vestigial, 269
Pithecanthropines, classification of, 243, 249-51
Pithecanthropus alulus. See Java man
Pithecanthropus erectus. See Java man
Pithecanthropus pekinensis. See Peking man
Pituitary gland, vestigial, 267
Pius XII, Pope: condemns evolution, 373
Plague: effect of on population, 338-39
Planets: rotation refutes Laplace 293, 457 n 9
Plato: aware of a sixth sense, 9; on Creation, 11; Er's account, 1, 4, 442 n 1; heaven is an ideal pattern, 7, 442 n 5; ideas developed by others, 32; not a liberal, 7; Paradise before man's Fall, 453 n 3; Pythagoreans visited by, 6; The Republic, a model for socialism, 1, 6, 7; and the Sophists, 7; Utopia, 6
Pleochroic halos. See Radio-halos
Plesiosaur: fossil, 86; Japanese and Western opinions, 467 n 29; Japanese fishermen catch, 106-7, 426-27; possibly still living, 175; reconstruction, 86
Pongo, 41
Poor Law: and Townsend, 60
Population growth, 337-39, 461 n 39
Potassium-argon dating method: applied to: 1470 man, 247, 455 n 25; Lucy, 248, 455 n 27; Nutcracker man, 243, 455 n 16; argon contamination, 301, 458 n 16; description of, 300
Potter, Charles: Chrysalid, statue of, 372; humanism declared a religion, 420
Powell, Baden: review of Origin, 378
Pressure differentials in oil wells, 366-67, 461 n 36
Priestley, Joseph, 56; Darwin's family influenced by, 126; Edinburgh University graduate, 121; exiled, 56; Malthus influenced by, 59; Unitarian Church evangelist, 56, 117, 445 n 5
Prodigy: ancestral brain, 264; Myron Romano, 206
Protagoras: atheistic view, 11; Christian view challenged by, 442 n 8; early secular humanist, 420; opposed to Socrates, 8
Protsch, R.: determines age of Reck's fossil, 245
Pterosaur: evolution of flight, 178; size evidence of vapor canopy, 319, 459 n 11
Ptolemy of Alexandria, 22-24
Punctuated equilibria: description of, 164-66; and theistic evolution, 366
Pyramid of power found in elitist organizations, 33,
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Racism among men of science, 260, 456 n 1
Radday, Yehuda: Developmental hypothesis refuted by computer, 386
Radioactive decay: assumption, 303; constancy questioned, 296, 304-5, 307-8, 317-19, 457 n 11, 457 n 12, 457 n 13; explained, 295-98; mathematical relationships, 297, 457 n 14; as source of earth's heat, 294; as source of sun's energy, 323
Radio-halos, 310-12; evidence for ex nihilo Creation, 312
Radiometric dating: assumptions summarized, 303; calibration, 320-22; concordance of, 302; principles, 295; radio-halos invalidate the assumptions, 312
Radiometric dating methods: carbon 14, 313-15; oxygen 18, 302, 315, 458 n 18, 459 n 4; potassium/argon, 300-1; uranium/lead, 295-300
Raised beaches, 93
Ramapithecus punjabicus, 249, 251-52, 455 n 28
Ramses II; statue, 286-87
Rancho La Brea tar pit, 90-92; human skull discovered in, 91, 447 n 14; wolf and saber-tooth tigers, 91, 447 n 13
Raup, David: confesses absence of transition fossils, 151
Rawlings, Maurice: clinical resuscitation, 1
Ray, John: classification based on biblical fixity of kinds, 39, 139; influence on Paley and Darwin, 444 n 7
Recapitulation theory. See Biogenetic law
Reck, Hans: human fossil discovery, 244-45
Redi, Francesco: disproves abiogenesis, 180
Renaissance, 32, 33; defined, 25
Reproductive-repopulation model, 111-13
Reptile to mammal transition, 156-57
Resurrection: a stumbling block to belief, 13, 365
Resuscitation: biblical cases of, 5, 442 n 2
Reusch, Franz: German theologian, 351
Revolution. See under American, French, Industrial, Russian
Rhodesian man, 229-310; age, 231, 454 n 20; Mair's opinion of hole, 231; Rigg's disease, 230-31
Rift Valley, Ethiopia, 248
Riverside Church, New York, 372. See also Fosdick, Harry Emerson Rock badger, 152
Rockefeller Foundation, funding for: eugenicist H. Goddard, 407; Fosdick's Riverside Church, 372; Peking man, 235-36
Roemer, Olaus: velocity of light measurement, 305, 458 n 23 Rosetta Stone, 347, 348
Rosicrucian order: and Francis Bacon, 443 n 21
Rousseau, Jean J.: children abandoned, 31; Christianity challenged by, 344; education of children, 31; exhibitionism, 444 n 24; friend of Malthus family, 59; life and work, 30-32; Lunar Society connections, 56, 57; secular humanism supported by, 422; Social contract, 31; Wilson's Sociobiology supported by, 413
Royal Society: governed by T.H. Huxley, 189; haven for radicals, 345; Lunar Society founders, 55; vision of Francis Bacon, 28
Ruin-restoration theory. See Gap theory
Runcorn, S.K.: dynamo theory, 331
Ruskin, John: occult involvement, 75
Russell, Bertrand: Margaret Mead's work used to justify worldview, 416; proposes controlled human breeding, 466 n 8; pro-Soviet view, 6
Russian Revolution, 7,
444
n 25
Saber-tooth tiger, 19, 447 n 13
St. Helen's volcano, 84
Saltation theory. See Hopeful monster theory
Salts in: blood plasma, 291, 457 n 8; Dead Sea, 289-90; sea water, 288, 457 n 5
Sanger, Margaret, advocate of birth control, 408, 466 n 13
Sanskrit, a complex ancient language, 255
Savonarola: burned at the slake, 443 n 18
Schiaparelli and Mars, 191-92, 452 n 20, 452 n 21
Scofield Reference Bible promotes Gap theory, 364
Scopes trial, 232, 425; publicity given to, 232, 353; staged by ACLU, 454 n 22
Sea serpent, 106
Second law of thermodynamics, 204, 305
Secular humanism: definition, 420; prospects for mankind, 429-30; religious aspects, 394
Secular humanists' strategies for world leadership, 427
Sedimentary rocks: absence of meteorites in, 327-28; classification of, 101-2; in Grand Canyon, 100; volcanic ash produces, 70, 84-85. See also Volcanic ash
Seven day week, 34-35, 444 n 25
Sex education in schools: results of, 422-23
Sexual selection, 158
Selenka expedition and Java man, 224
Semi-lunar fold of the eye said to be vestigial, 268
Setterfield, Barry: investigates the constancy of constants, 306, 458 n 26
Shackleton, E.H.: Antarctic coal, 97
Shakespeare, William: language deteriorated since, 255; quote, 282, 457 n 1
Shang-Ti, heavenly emperor, 392, 465 n 43
Shaw, Bernard: founding member of the Fabian Society, 427-28; quoted, 382
Shrinking sun. See Contracting sun
Simpson, George G.: work on fossil horses, 153
Sinanthropus pekinensis. See Peking man
Sistine Chapel ceiling, 377
Situational ethics opposed to Bible ethics, 422
Skinner box, 418; for human use, 419, 467 n 27
Skinner, B.F: signer of the Humanist Manifesto, 428; works, 418
Skulls, Indian: from S. Morton's collection, 269
Smith's Bible dictionary denies worldwide Flood, 351
Smith, George: deciphers Nineveh tablets, 384
Smith, Grafton Elliot, involved with: Nebraska man, 232; Peking man, 235-36; Piltdown man, 227-29; Taung skull, 241-42
Smith, William: "Strata" Smith, 69
Smith, William R., editor of Encyclopaedia Britannica, 385-86
Smuts, Jan Christiaan: holism, 242; Taung skull, 242
Sobell and Sobell: treatment of alcoholics, 419
Socialist network of organizations, 427-28
Social Darwinism: basis of, 403; Lowell's associates practitioners of, 190
Society for Psychical Research, 75, 464 n 16
Socrates: death of, 5, 6; Divine Voice heard by, 5, 442 n 4; immortality of the soul, belief in, 8, 9; teaching method of, 5
Spallanzani, Lazzaro: supported biogenesis, 180
Spearman, C.E.: victim of Cyril Burt's plagiarism, 412
Species, 139-47: archetypes, 146-47; cladistics, classification by, 147; Darwin avoided definition of, 145; textbook definition, 146; typological concept, 146; word origin, 39
Speed of light. See Velocity of light
Spencer, Herbert: amorality justified by, 421; lauded by Christian press, 401; life and work, 398-401; situational ethics based on, 422; survival of the fittest, 132, 169, 451 n 15; X Club member, 189
Sperm bank. See Muller, Herman J.
Spiritism. See Occult
Splitters, 145
Spontaneous generation, 179-82
Stalactites. See Dripstone
Stalagmite containing fossil bat, 461 n 35
Stalin, Joseph: object of worship, 340
Starlight: time to reach earth, 306, 458 n 27
Stegosaurus, 151
Sterilization laws in: America, 408; Germany, 409-10
Stone age, 208
Stone age swindle, 249
Stone mortars found with Calaveras skull, 217
Straus and Cave on Neanderthal man, 212-13
Strauss, David, German theologian, 343
Sun: contraction of, 322, 324, 459 n 15, 459 n 16, 460 n 17; energy source, 322-25; neutrino problem, 323, 459 n 14; rotation of, 325
Survival of the fittest: a tautology, 169-70. See also Spencer, Herbert
Survival of the least fittest, 174
Swanscombe skull, 253
Swift, Jonathan: brain capacity of, 259
Syllabus of Errors, 373
Symbiosis: a major problem for Oparin, 200
Syncline. See Bent rocks
Syntropy proposed as mechanism for evolution, 164,
451
n 12
Tail, reported on human, 278-79
Taoism in China, 392
Tasaday, 249
Taung skull, 242; an Australopithecine, 245; Keith rejects, 242, 455 n 13; Smith accepts, 242; Smuts involved with, 242
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre: Communist use of, 376; incomprehensible language, 376; inspired by H. Bergson, 375; Peking man, 235-41, 454 n 4, 455 n 6; Piltdown man suspect, 226-29; reconciles Christianity and evolution, 374-76, 464 n 17; reports Rhodesian man, 231
Tektite. See Meteorite
Teleology: Aristotle believed in, 9; prodigy example questions, 206
Tell El-Amarna evidence of Egyptian and Bible concordance, 349
Tell Mardikh. See Ebla discovery
Temple, Frederick: archbishop, 379, 380; forced to withdraw essay, 464 n 25
Temple, William: archbishop, 379; founder of the World Council of Churches, 464 n 25
Tennyson, Alfred: occult involvement, 75; quoted, 79, 446 n 17
Terrace, H.S.: ape to man communication exposed, 254
Theistic evolution, 366-80: Anglican Church adopts, 377-80; Communist Party finds useful, 376, 464 n 21; Darwin rejects, 369, 463 n 7; Genesis denied, 366; Gray promotes, 367-68; Roman Church adopts, 372-77; a stepping-stone to secular humanism, 395; supported by punctuated equilibria, 366
Theistic humanism: defined, 420
Theropithecus galada, 252. See also Ramapithecus punjabicus
Thirty-nine articles. See Anglican Church
Thom, A.: on megalitic monuments, 220, 454 n 13
Thomism. See Aquinas, Thomas
Thompson, W.R.: comments on Java man, 225, 454 n 16
Thomsen, Christian, Danish archaeologist, 208
Thomson, William. See Kelvin, Lord
Thyroid gland, vestigial, 267
Tonsils, vestigial, 267
Toynbee, Arnold: condemns Christianity, 15, 442 n 9
Transcendental Meditation form of worship, 341
Transition fossils, 150-58: reptile to mammal, 156-57. See also Archaeopteryx
Transmutation. See Evolution
Trilobite eye: evolution of, 168-69
Trinity, doctrine of: rejected by Isaac Newton, 343
Trismegistus, Hermes. See Hermetic tradition
Turgenev, Ivan: brain capacity, 258, 259
Turner, Samuel, American theologian, 351
Uniformitarianism, 309
Unitarian Church: in America, 117, 367; Emma Darwin, influence on Charles, 122, 126-27, 137, 463 n 3; history of, 116-17; Humanist Manifesto subscribed to by, 428; Jane Gray, influence on Asa Gray, 367, 463 n 3
United Nations and population policies, 337
UNESCO: Humanist Association connections, 429; media censorship, 427; peace movements sponsored by, 411, 466 n 20; policy of, 423-24, 465 n 2
Universal constants: relatedness, 304-5
Uranium/lead dating method, 295-300; lead contamination, effect of, 299; mineral formation, 298. See also Radiometric dating
Uranium salts in sea water, 290-91, 457 n 7
Uslar-Gleichen, Frida von: affair with Haeckel, 186, 187
Ussher, James: Creation, date of, 283-85; Egyptian dating not concordant with, 348; 9 o'clock statement wrongly ascribed to, 284, 457 n 2
Van Evrie, J.H., early scientific racist, 410, 466 n 18
Vapor canopy: evidence for, 319
Velikovsky, I.: Right on Egyptian dating, 349; wrong on other issues, 109
Velocity of light: constancy in question, 305-6; cosmological implications, 306; Roemer's measurements. 305, 458 n 23; Setterfield's work, 306, 458 n 26
Vestiges of Creation: Darwin's Origin aided by, 353, 462 n 18; Hugh Miller opposes, 361; Baden Powell adopts, 378
Vestigial organs, 264-79; Boa constrictor hind legs, 270-71; Chinese foot-binding refutes, 270; circumcision refutes, 269-70; Darwin's reasoning Lamarckian, 266; Flat-head Indians' head binding refutes, 270; homology as the basis for, 266; medical practices based upon, 272-73; regressive or progressive, 264, 456 n 3; Scadding refutes, 267; textbooks still use as examples, 265, 272, 456 n 4, 456 n 9; whale, hind legs, 270, 271
Vestigial organs of man, claims for: appendix, 267, 273; coccyx, 268, 277-79; hymen, 270; male nipples, 265, 456 n 5; pineal gland, 269; pituitary gland, 267; semi-lunar fold of the eye, 268 thyroid, 267; tonsils, 267
Villee, Claude (textbook author): claims one hundred human organs vestigial, 265; includes male nipples, 267
Virchow, Rudolph, 211, 213: Boas taught by, 413; German race type sought for, 406; Haeckel taught by, 184; Neanderthal man examined by, 210-11
Virgin birth, object of a divided view, 116, 360, 365
Vogt, William. See Moore, Hugh
Volcanic ash: Antarctic preserves past record, 100, 448 n 24; extensive in the past, 84, 447 n 6, 447 n 7; forms sedimentary rock, 85; worldwide distribution of, 70, 446 n 12
Voltaire: denies Fall of man, 207; free-thinker, 26, 32; Lunar Society, 55, 57; quoted, 15
Vox populi, vox dei, 16
Wakefield, Gilbert: influence on Malthus, 59
Wallace, Alfred R.: birds of paradise, 174; "delicate arrangement", victim of, 130, 446 n 14; life and works, 73-76; occult involvement, 75-76, 446 n 15; pension, 75; revelation, moment of, 77-78, 446 n 16; Sarawak law, 77, 130; summary of thesis, 78-79; tautology exposed, 80; Ternate paper, 78, 130-31
Wastefulness of nature, 169 Webb, Sidney and Beatrice, founders of: Fabian Society, 427; London School of Economics, 428
Weber, Wilhelm, coworker with Karl Gauss, 333
Wedgwood, Josiah: Lunar Society member, 55; Unitarian Church member, 117, 118, 126
Weidenreich, Franz: reconstructs Peking man, 237-40, 456 n 2
Weiner and Oakley: expose Piltdown man, 228
Weismann, August: Darwin's tautology defended, 167; mouse-tail experiments, 48, 266, 445 n 14; statistical work on circumcision, 48
Wellhausen, Julius: work on the Documentary hypothesis, 383-86
Wells, H.G.: Fabian Society member, 427; inspired by Lowell for life on Mars, 193
Wenner-Gren Foundation to seek ape to man evidence, 374
Wesley, John: brought evangelical revival to English-speaking people, 54, 344
Westminster Abbey, repository for unbelief: C. Darwin, 135, 380; J. Hooker, 135; C. Kingsley, 357; C. Lyell. 135; I. Newton, 135
Whale: pregnant, 89; Quebec hill discovery, 94;vestigial hind legs claimed, 270-71
White, Lynn: historian blames Christianity, 15
Whitelaw, Robert: statistical analysis of carbon 14 data, 320
Whitney, J.D.: report on Calaveras skull, 217
Wickramasinghe, C. See Hoyle, Fred
Wiedersheim, Robert: definitive work on vestigial organs, 264-65
Wilberforce, Samuel: Darwin's opinion of, 358; Oxford debate, 357, 358
Wilkinson, John, Lunar Society member, 55
Wilson's bird of paradise, 175
Wilson, Edward O.: altruism, 413; ethics and free-will, effect of, 413; C. Lumsden, coworker, 405; Sociobiology, 412
Wiseman, Nicholas, Catholic cardinal, 351
Wistar Institute Symposium, 164, 170, 201
Woman and child of Minateda, 200, 454 n 14
Woodward, Arthur S., work with: Piltdown man, 227-29; Rhodesian man, 230
World Council of Churches, 379
World government: socialist objective, 423
Worship: a universal practice, 340-41
Wyclif, John: caused early evangelical revival, 19,
443
n 14
X Club: members listed, 452 n 17; Royal Society controlled by, 189
Xenophon, disciple of Socrates, 5
Yale University: J. Dana converts to evolution, 371
Young, Robert: concordance lists Creation dates, 283
Zdansky, Otto: initiates work on Peking man, 235
Zeno and his mathematical paradox, 201
Zero: introduced by Arabs, 17, 442 n 12
Zinjanthropus boisei. See Nutcracker man
Zoönomia: Catholic Index condemns, 58; C. Darwin influenced by, 120, 121
Zoroastrian belief in resurrection, 2, 3
Zuckerman, Solly: multivariate analysis, 254;
quoted, 255
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