For the Rock Record: Geologists on Intelligent Design

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251 I N D E X Abrahamic faiths. See Christianity; Islam; Judaism accommodationism, 182, 197–219; concepts of the God of, 215–19; general explanations for, 203–5; among nonscientists , 197–203; among scientists, 205–15 Adam and Eve story, 26, 28, 29, 173 Addison, Thomas, 82 aepycamelines, 47 Africa: rift zones of, 16, 65; transitional fossil forms in, 47, 52 African Methodist Episcopal Church, 201 Agassiz, Louis, 148 Alabama, fossil beds in, 48 Aleutian Islands, earthquakes in, 153 Algeria, fossil beds in, 52 Allmon, Warren D., 1–7, 180–227, 247 Alpine metamorphic rocks, 6 Alvarez, L. W., 167 alvarezsaurids, 71–72 Ambulocetus natans, 51, 54 amebelodonts, 52 American Jewish Congress, 176, 200 American Philosophical Association, 124 amniotes, 43 amphibians, 43 anancines, 52 Anaximander, 142 Anglican Church, 4 anthropic principle, 4, 190 apologetics, religious, 95–96 Appalachian Mountains, 15; garnets of, 17, 18 Aquinas, Thomas, 151 archaeocetes, 48–52 Archaeopteryx, 39, 60–61, 64–73 Arif, M., 51 Aristotle, 96, 98, 143, 151, 152 Arizona State University, 200 Arkansas Board of Education, 1, 164, 169, 207 artiodactyls, 42, 48, 49 asteroid impact hypothesis, 167 astronomy, 27–30, 78, 223 252 · i n d e x atheism, 117, 166, 181–82, 193–94, 213, 219, 222; creationist equation of evolutionary science with, 121–22, 126, 199–200; extreme, 109, 110, 191–93, 197, 202, 216–17, 220; methodological naturalism attacked as promoting, 118–22, 136; spirituality and, 113n5; theistic science and, 125–27 Atkins, Peter, 191 Atlantic Ocean, 16 atomic theory, 214 Augustine, 197 Austin, S. A., 24, 25 Australia, detrital zircons in gneisses in, 5 Ayala, Francisco, 203–4 Babuna, Oktar, 113n4 Babylonian exile, 173–74, 206 Bacon, Francis, 143–44, 149; Novum Organum, 143, 145 Bactrian camels, 47 Bambach, Richard, 210–12 baraminology, 42–43, 48 Barbour, Ian G., 181, 182, 206 Barrow, J. D., 190 Basilosaurus, 49–50 Baumgardner, J. R., 24, 25 Baylor Science and Research Project, 137 Beagle (ship), 83 bears, 54 Behe, Michael, 100, 170; Darwin’s Black Box, 94–95, 134, 135, 151–52 Bible, 22, 24, 25, 55, 56, 87, 100, 169, 172–73, 188, 199, 209, 225n5; Genesis, 21, 22, 24, 26–28, 112, 169, 173–75, 197; Isaiah, 218; Jeremiah, 206–7; Job, 174–75; Proverbs, 56, 174; Psalms, 174–75; Revelation, 86–87 Big Bang, 27, 203, 210 Bighorn Basin (Wyoming) fossil beds, 45 Big Tent, 78, 79 Biological Society of Washington, Proceedings of, 40, 87 biology, 11, 12, 22, 28–30, 39, 78, 79, 42, 223; Cambrian, 32; complexity of, 31; evolutionary, 4, 136, 180, 191, 195, 200, 208; transformational, 142 birds, evolution from dinosaurs of, 40, 59–61; intelligent design arguments against, 61–73 Bonaparte, Napoleon, 192 Brightman, Edgar, 124–25 Britain: accommodation of science and religion in, 198; intellectual tradition in, 143–45 Broad, William, 201–2 brontotheres, 45 Brown University, 207 Bryan, William Jennings, 198, 225n5 Buckland, William, 83, 84, 87; The Bridgewater Treatises, 82 Buddhism, 112, 113n5 Buffon, Georges, 144 Burnet, Thomas, 144 Bush, A., 24 Bush, George W., 54 Caldwell, Billy R.: Geology in the Bible, 2 California, fossils found in, 47 Call, Lon Ray, 216 Calvert, John, 118–20 Calvin, John, 197–98 Cambrian Explosion, 32–33, 39, 40 camels, evolution of, 42, 47–48 Canada, fossil beds of, 168 Carroll, Lewis: Through the Looking Glass, 42 catastrophic plate techtonics, 13, 14, 16 Caudipteryx, 60 causation, 96–100; Aristotelian notion of, 151; divine, Roman Catholic doctrine of, 217; in logic of Intelligent Design, 154; in methodological naturalism , 117; supernatural, 166, 170 i n d e x · 253 CBS News polls, 194 Cenozoic era, 24, 47, 102 Central Conference of American Rabbis, 200 Chambers, Robert, 101 chemistry, 11, 195, 223; cause-and-effect laws of, 119 Chesapeake Bay, fossils in sediments of, 163 Chesterton, G. K., 180 China: feathered dinosaur fossils found in, 60, 61, 64, 66, 71; volcanic islands rimming coast of, 15 Christianity, 21, 93, 95, 111, 127, 170, 171, 183, 194, 225n2; accommodation of science and, 198, 201, 206, 207, 210, 215–16, 221; belief in irreconcilability of evolutionary theory and, 121; fundamentalist, 39, 55–56, 78, 87, 113n4, 182, 224; liberal to moderate, 189; methodological naturalism and, 123; nonphysical soul in, 133; progressive creationist, 26–28; purpose in, 99; socially conservative, 195; Theistic Evolutionist, 22 cladistic methodology, 61–62, 69, 72; cladograms, 62, 63, 64–65, 104, 105, 106; naming conventions in, 69–70 clams, 163 Clepysaurus...