How To Be An Agnostic

Index

Bible 6, 115, 160, 161–2, 168,
186–7, 229–30, 259
Big Bang 71, 72, 144
biology 73–9, 80, 142
bios 101
Bolhuis, Johan 99
Bonaventure 4, 168
Bowlby, John 108, 109
Boyle, Robert 54
Bragg, Melvyn 232–3
Brazil 117
Brenton, Howard 199–200
Bryant, William Cullen 246
Buddha 124 , 128, 242
Buddhism 122, 127, 128–33,
135, 242
Burke, Edmund 245

Camus, Albert 11
Capra, Fritjof 67–8, 70
Caputo, John 223–4
cardinal virtues 103
Carlyle, Thomas 256
Catholicism 116–17, 172, 253
Chaerephon 22
charismatic movement 69
Chaucer, Geoffrey 210
Chesterton, G.K. 173
Chilean miners’ disaster
(2010) 191–2
Christianity 5, 11, 12, 16–17,
107, 115, 116, 130, 134, 140,
152–63, 164, 178, 193, 200,
215–17, 219, 224, 229, 238,
242, 250, 256–8
church 11–12, 110–11, 152–6,
159, 189, 223–4, 230, 259
Church of England 5, 129
Cicero 201
Clough, Arthur Hugh 181–2,
189
cognitive behaviour therapy
(CBT) 131

Cole, Thomas 246

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 228

comets 50–1

Compline 174–5

Comte, Auguste 116–17, 119,

120

confession 256–7

Confucianism 132–3

consciousness 52, 64–7, 70, 231

convergence 58, 77–8

Conway Morris, Simon 77–8

Cope, Wendy 161

Copernicus 11, 69, 156

cosmic religion 18, 48–84, 85,

136, 209

cosmological constant 61–2

cosmology 55–7, 63, 65–6, 71,

145

Cottingham, John 258

creation 71, 150–2

creationism 163

creed 153, 154

Croesus 31–2

Ctesippus 29

Cynics 213–14

Dalai Lama 107

dark energy 64

Darwinism 18, 77, 103, 144–5,

164, 230–2

Davies, Paul 64–6, 67, 70, 71

Dawkins, Richard 13, 139, 251–2

death 46, 187–90, 210–11, 238

deism 195–8

Delphi 20, 21 , 22, 32

Delphic oracle 22–5, 30, 31–3,

260

Democritus 85–6, 89

Dennett, Daniel 92

Derrida, Jacques 169, 224

Descartes, René 220, 236, 238

Desert Fathers 215

d’Espagnat, Bernard 82