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abortion,
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academic freedom,
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accommodationism,
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acid raid,
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Acid Rain Peer Review Panel,
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acupuncture,
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afterlife,
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Age of Reason,
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agnostic, origin of term,
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AGW,
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Ahmanson, Howard F.,
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Albert the Great,
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alchemy,
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Alexander the Great,
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algebra,
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al-Khalili, Jim,
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alternate histories,
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alternative energy sources,
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altruism,
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Ambrose, Saint,
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American Civil Liberties Union,
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American (Northern) Baptist Church,
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American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS),
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American Revolution,
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amyotropic lateral sclerosis,
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analytic geometry,
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Anaximander,
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Anderson, Carl D.,
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Anderson, Philip W.,
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Andrews, Edgar,
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Andromeda galaxy,
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Angel, Leonard,
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Anglican Church of Canada,
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angular momentum,
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animism,
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Antarctica,
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anthropic principle,
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anthropogenic global warming (AGW),
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anti-AIDS campaign,
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antiscience,
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apeiron,
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aphasia,
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apologetics,
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apparently nonphysical veridical NDE perception (AVP),
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arabic numerals,
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Archimedes Codex,
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argument from design,
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argument from ignorance,
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Aristarchus of Samos,
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Aristotle,
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Arkansas creationism trial,
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arrow of time,
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artificial intelligence,
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artificial selection,
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Aspect experiment,
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atheist paradox,
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atomic theory of matter,
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atomism,
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Augustine, Keith,
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Augustine of Hippo,
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aura,
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Avalos, Hector,
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AVP,
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Bacon, Roger,
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Ball, Philip,
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Barlow, Connie,
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Barrow, John,
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Barton, “Smokey Joe,”
316

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Bayesian t-test,
240

Bayonne, New Jersey,
245

Beagle
(Darwin ship),
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Behe, Michael,
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Beliefnet,
228

Bell, John,
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Bell's theorem,
161

Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction,
217

Bem, Daryl,
153
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bending of light by the sun,
140

Berkman, Michael,
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Bernstein, Morey,
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beta-radiation,
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Bethe, Hans,
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biblical capitalism,
303

biblical creationism,
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big bang,
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bioenergetic fields,
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birth control,
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black body radiation,
142
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black holes,
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black widow spider,
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Blackmore, Susan,
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Blaker, Kimberly,
253
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302

Blakeslee, Sandra,
264

Blom, Philipp,
94

blueshift,
170

Boethius of Dacia,
75

Bohm, David,
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Bohmian quantum mechanics,
161
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Bohr, Niels,
144
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Bohr model of atom,
144

Bologna, University of,
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Boltzmann, Ludwig,
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bootstrap theory,
149

Borde, Arvind,
172
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179

Born, Max,
206

boson condensates,
210

bosons,
146
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210

Botswana,
47

bottom-up causality,
42
,
215

Boyer, Pascal,
49

Boyle, Robert,
37

Brahe, Tycho,
80