skepticism (cont.)
examination welcomed by
about folk religion
hostility toward
politeness overwhelming
strategies for combating
Skeptic Society
Skinner, B. F.
skyscrapers
sleight-of-hand
smallpox
Smith, Chuck
Smith, John Maynard
Smith, Joseph
smoking
sneezing reflex
soccer
social conflict, religion exploiting
social insects
social interaction, strategic information and
social science
evolutionary approach distrusted by
memetics and
moral judgments in
natural sciences versus
premature curiosity satisfaction in
religion studied in
in science studies
See also anthropology; psychology
sociology solidarity
somebody is watching over you, belief that
Sorcererâs Apprentice
sortilege
soul
Cartesian
immortality of
Jivaro beliefs about
materialist view of
sound bites
Soviet Union
Sower, parable of the
space, change in concept of
space aliens example
spam, e-mail
Spaniards in Western Hemisphere
specie
speech acts
spells
Sperber, Dan
sperm cells
Spinoza, Benedict
spirits
spirituality
craving for
gene for
religiousness versus
Spong, John Shelby
sports
allegiance to teams
as natural phenomenon
teams as coalitions not based on genetic kinship
Stark, Rodney
Statue of Liberty
Steadman, Lyle B.
stem-cell research
Sterelny, Kim
Stern, Jessica
Sternberg, Emily
Stevens, George
stewardship
of beliefs
conditional
of democracy
evolution of
of memes
not all practices requiring
stickers on biology textbooks
stories
straight line, drawing
strategic information
strategic secrets
structuralism
Stupak, Bart
subliminal motivations
submission
sugar industry
Sulloway, Frank
summum bonum,
sunsets
Superman
supernatural
the in definition of religion
divine essences versus
and everyday morality
evil agents
good associated with
as opposed to natural
as path to fulfillment
sleight-of-hand moves for creating
witches
supernormal stimuli
super-organisms
superstition
supply-side economics
surrogate mothers
surveys
suspension bridges
sweets
liking for
sweet-tooth theories of religion
swimming
swimming pools
symbionts
symbols, defilement of
systematic invulnerability to disproof
Â
taboo trade-offs
Taliban
talking ax
Tana Island
Taoism
tasseography
Taubes, Gary
team spirit
invention of
as obvious good
as raison dâêtre of religion
technology for causing global catastrophe
communications
ecological circumstances altered by
global onslaught of Western
potential to act increased by
reliability of
science and
Temple (Jerusalem)
Templeton Foundation
tempting
Ten Commandments
tension
tenure
terminology, outmoded
terrorism
testable hypotheses
testimonials
Tetlock, Philip
textbooks, stickers on biology
theocracy
theological research
Theos
thinking about thinking
third-order intentionality
Thompson, DâArcy
Tillich, Paul
time, change in concept of
Time magazine
Tinbergen, Niko
Titon, Jeff Todd
tobacco. See smoking tolerance
Tooth Fairy
torture
Town Meeting
Toxoplasma gondii
tradition
animal
erosion of
loyalty to
misplaced respect for
respecting
revision of
Transcendental Meditation
transcendent values
Transformation of American Religion, The (Wolfe)
translation, indeterminacy of radical
transubstantiation
trial and error
tribal people
tribal religion
design in
See also folk religion âtried and true, â
triggered production
Trouble with Islam, The (Manji)
Trudgen, Arthur
trust
group living and
mutual
religion strengthening bonds of
truth(s)
in advertising
factual
making you free
objective
of physics
as sacred value
sacrifices made for
science as not having monopoly on
as transcendent value
Turkey
Turkish language
Turner, Denys
type-token terminology
Twain, Mark
Â
ultimate values
uncertainty, religious belief in facing
unconscious selection
understanding, belief versus
unicorns
Unitarianism
universalism, imperialist
urban legends
used-car salesmen
Â
values
atheists seen as lacking
âfamily, â
instrumental
intrinsic
sacred
summum bonum
transcendent
ultimate
variation
Varieties of Religious Experience, The (James)
Vatican City
Vatican
Vedic texts
Venus (planet)
vertebrates
virus(es)
computer
religious memes likened to
RNA
specie likened to
terrorism as
Vishnu
visions
VMAT2 gene
Voltaire
von Neumann multiplexing
voting
vultures
Â
Waco (Texas)
Wahhabism
walking on bed of coals
walking trees
Wamp, Zach
wars
as bringing out the best in people
holy versus secular
as natural
religion justifying sacrifice in
religious
ârighteous,â
in scienceâs development'
âweakest linkâ phenomenon
weather prediction
Weber, Max
Weinberg, Steven
West Bank settlers
âWhat Shall We Tell the Children?â(Humphrey)
whatsis center
Whitehouse, Harvey
Why Christianity Must Change or Die (Spong)
Why God Wonât Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief (Newberg, DâAquili, and Rouse)
Wicca
Wiesel, Elie
Williams, George
Wilson, Charles E.
Wilson, David Sloan
Wirth, Daniel
Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande (Evans-Pritchard)
witch doctors. See shamans witches
witnessing
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Wolf, Frank
Wolfe, Alan
wonder
Wonder Woman
Word, the
in the beginning was
Bible as
Jesus as
as Number One
spreading
words
abstractness of
changes in
digitization in
as information packets
inventing
natural selection of
Wordsworth, William
workaholics
World Bank
World Changers Church
World Trade Center
writing
Wynne, Thomas
Â
xenophobia
Â
Yahuuz example
Yahweh (Jehovah)
yeast
Young Earth creationists
Â
zealots
Zulus