414 Index
“art of taxonomy,” 136
articular, 299
artificial selection, 98–101
Artiocetus, 345
Artiodactyla, 324, 335–347
Asimov, Isaac, 5–6
Assyrian, 29–31
Astragalus, 343–345
astrology, 14, 379, 383
astronomers, 18
atavism, 106–107, 371
Atdabanian Stage, 177–179
Athleta, 196–197
Australia, 28, 95, 119–121
Australian black swan, 4–5
Australopithecus, 357, 366
Australopithecus africanus, 134, 359, 363–366
Australopithecus anamensis, 363
Austrolimulus, 201–202
Axolotl, 108–109
Ayala, Francisco, xvii
Aysheaia, 203–204
baboon, 388–389
“Baby Fae,” 388
Babylonian, 28–31
Bacon, Francis, 96
Bacteria, 125–126
Bagaceratops, 271–273
Bailey, Leonard, 388–389
Bakker, Jim, 380
baloney, 14–18
baloney detection, 13–14
Baramin, 79–80
Barghoorn, Elso, 172
barnacles, 99
Barnes, Thomas, 84
Barnum, P. T., 13
Basilosaurus, 344–345
Basin and Range province, 76–77
bats, 311
bears, 313–314, 317
Becquerel, Henri, 81
Behe, Michael, 17, 37–39, 43, 171
Behemotops, 351
Beipiaosaurus, 283–284
belief systems, 21
“believing brain,” 377
Bell, Thomas, 99
Bergmann’s Rule, 123
Berkeley, George, 96
Big Badlands, South Dakota, 67, 69, 310, 327
Big Bang theory, 386
Big Brother, 24
Big Daddy, 358
Bigfoot, 14
Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, 307, 329
bighorn sheep, 125
binomen, 130
biodiversity, 129–130
biogeography, 119–121, 129
Biola College, 43
biology, 96
biostratigraphy, 59, 61, 88
Bird Spring Limestone, 74
bird teeth, 107
Bird, Wendell, 36
birds, origin of, 276–288
“black sheep,” 379
“black smokers,” 161–162
blastopore, 209–210
blastula, 209–210
blending inheritance, 100
blind salamanders, 40
Block, Douglas, 63, 68
blood-clotting cascade, 43
“blowhole,” 343
“blue-green algae,” 153
bony fish, 223–225
“Bossie,” 343
Bottjer, David, 49
Boulle, Pierre, 385–386
Boulton, Matthew, 96
Bozo the Clown, 20
Brachiopods, 73, 177
Brachiosaurus, 266–267
bradytely, 172
Brahma, 27
branching tree of life, 97, 113, 148–149
Brave New World, 372
Bridgewater Treatises, 33
Bright Angel Shale, 73
bristlecone pines, 84
Brockman, John, 395
Brongniart, Alexandre, 59
“Brontosaurus,” 266
Brontotheres, 67–68, 334–336
Broom, Robert, 366
Brule Formation, 67–68
Bruno, Giordano, 8
Bryan, William Jennings, 34–36
Bryce National Park, 64
Bryozoans, 73
Buckingham, William, 45–46
Buckland, William, 76
Buffon, G.-L. Leclerc, count of, 32–33, 96
Bullshit!, 13
Burckle, Lloyd, 189
burden of proof, 15
Burgess Shale, 177–179, 203–204, 216
Burnet, Thomas, 62, 76
Burns, John, 301
bush babies, 360–362
Bush, George W., 45, 383, 389, 394