How To Be An Agnostic

Index

God-talk 27, 38, 43, 44, 46,
87, 170, 172, 179, 196, 198,
222–3
Gödel, Kurt 61, 67
Goldilocks enigma 64–5
good/goodness 36–7, 38, 145–6,
187, 222
Goodall, Howard 119
Gould, Glenn 49
Gould, Stephen Jay 59, 77, 82
gravity 18, 50–1, 73, 232–3
Greeks, ancient 20, 23, 24, 25–6,
33, 37, 85, 122, 123, 167, 237
Greenblatt, Stephen 255
Gregory of Nyssa 159, 175

Hadot, Pierre 210, 216
Halley, Edmond 50
happiness 93–5, 100, 102, 257
Hartley, David 51
Hawking, Stephen 1–3, 56
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm
Friedrich 226
Heidegger, Martin 117–18, 123
Heisenberg, Werner 68
Heller, Michel 62
Hesiod 24
Higgs boson 56
Hippothales 29
history, philosophy of 234–6
Hobson, Theo 200
Holy Grail 54
Homer 24, 45, 254
homosexuality 6, 162, 219
Hooke, Robert 228
Hudson River School 245
Hull, Roger 246
humanism 6, 10, 17, 191, 222
humanity
diminishing 104–6
religion of 116–17
Hume, David 48, 81, 145,
179–80, 220, 260

Huxley, T.H. 13–14, 14 , 196–7

hymns 153

immortality 238

incarnation 241

incompleteness theorem 61, 67

insects 73–7

intelligent design 151

Isaacson, Walter 83

Islam 13, 164–5

James, Henry 1

James, William 239

Janicaud, Dominique 105–6

Jefferson, Thomas 116, 118

Jenkins, David 230

Jesus 15, 160, 161, 162, 229,

241–2

Judaism 13, 164, 165, 236–7

Jung, Carl 111, 112, 112 , 114,

119

Kant, Immanuel 81–2, 242–3

Karnak Temple 149

Kauffman, Stuart 79

Keats, John 48, 235–6

Kenny, Anthony 167, 181–2,

183, 248

Keynes, John Maynard 49

Kierkegaard, Søren 16, 250–1

knowledge, practice of 227

Krasnik, Martin 140

Kuhn, Thomas 80–1

Küng, Hans 72

language, religious 153–6

Layard, Richard 94, 95

Lear, Jonathan 250, 258

Lederman, Leon 56

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm 51,

62

light, wave/particle duality

of 80, 82