Index 415bushmen, 28
bushy branching evolution, 132–134
Butler Act, 34–35
Caenorhabditis elegans, 145
Cain and Abel, 35
Cairns-Smith, A. G., 161
calcaneum, 295
Californosaurus, 253
Calvert Cliffs, 57, 65
“Cambrian explosion,” 48, 170–180
“Cambrian slow fuse,” 171–180
Cambridge University, 98
camels, 337–340
Campbell, John, 104
Campbell, Joseph, 27, 29, 32
Canaanites, 30, 31
Cannartus, 192–193
capuchin monkey, 370
carapace, 249–250
carbohydrates, 158–160
carbon 14 dating, 82–83
Cardenas lava flows, 70
Carnivora, order, 312–320
carnivore, 39–40, 131
carnivorous mammals, 308, 312–320
Cassandra, 390
“catastrophism,” 12
Catholic Church, xvii
cats, 312–316
cattle, 337
Caudipteryx, 283–284
Caudofoveata, 203
cave-dwelling fish, 40
caveat emptor, 13
CBS/YouGov poll, 392
“Cdesign proponentsists,” 46
Cebidae, 131, 360, 370
Cech, Thomas, 163
Cedar Mesa Sandstone, 76
central dogma of genetics, 103–104
Ceratopsians, 271–275
Cercopithecidae, 131, 360–362, 370
Chad, 363
Chadron Formation, 67–68
“chain of being,” 301
Chalicotheres, 323
Chambers, Robert, 99, 112
Chancelloria, 176
Chaohusaurus, 253–254
characters, taxonomic, 137–138
chemosynthesis, 161
Chengjiang Fauna, 177–180, 203–204, 215–216
“cherry-picking,” 379
Chesapecten, 193–194
Chick, Jack, 358
Chien, Paul, 49
chimpanzee, 370–374, 388–389
Chinle Formation, 64
Chinook, 27
chloroplasts, 164–165
Chondrichthyans, 221–225
Chondrosteans, 223–225
chordate, 209–211
Chriacus, 337
Christian Science, 18
Chrysophyta, 185
Chukar partridges, 277
Chure, Daniel, 275
Cimolestes, 310
Cincinnati Arch, 66
cladistics, 136–141, 307
cladogram, 138–139
Clark, Harold W., 63, 68
class, 131
class Amphibia, 139
class Reptilia, 139
classification, 129–132
Claudiosaurus, 254
clavicles, 277
clay minerals, 161
Cleanthes, 38
Clergy Letter Project, xvii
climate deniers, 389
climbing perch, 232
clonal trees, 84
closed systems, 51
Cloudina, 176
Coacervate, 158
Coccolithophorids, 185–186
Coccoliths, 193
Coconino Sandstone, 74
Coelacanth, 228–232
Coelom, 210–211
Coelophysis, 267–271
Colbert, Matthew, 334
“cold reading,” 379
“collateral ancestor,” 89, 281
Collins, Francis, xvii
colugos, 308
Columbus, Christopher, 20
Committees of Correspondence, 50
common cold, 125
Como Bluff, Wyoming, 302
Comoros Islands, 228–232
Compsognathus, 267–270, 276, 278
“Condylarthra,” 324
confirmation bias, 379
Confuciusornis, 285–287
conodonts, 61
continental drift, 22
contradictions in Bible, 31
“control group,” 16
“controlling genes,” 108