Index 425Schopf, J. W., 171–173
Schweitzer, Mary, xvii
science literacy, 386–388
“scientific creationism,” 36–39
scientific method, 3–4
Scientific Revolution, 6, 97
scientific truth, 4
Scientology, 18
Scopes Monkey Trial, 34–35
Scopes, John T., 34–35
sculpins, 232
sea jellies, 173
sea lions, 317–320
“sea squirts,” 211–215
sea turtles, 251–252
seals, 317–320
Sebecus, 260
second law of thermodynamics, 51
secondary palate, 293, 295
sedimentologists, 69
Seeley, Harry Govier, 276
Seilacher, Adolf, 173
selenodont teeth, 337
semi-lunate carpal, 278–280
Sepkoski, Jack, 18–19, 175
Seventh-Day Adventist, 62, 389
sexual intercourse, 246
Seymouria, 247–248
Shanidar Cave, Iraq, 368
shared derived characters, 137–138
shared primitive characters, 137–138
sharks, 221–225, 246
Sharktooth Hill, 65
Sheldon, Peter, 197–198
Shermer, Michael, 28, 43, 48, 134–135, 377, 396
Shubin, Neil, 238, 326, 327
Sifrhippus, 326
Simon, Stephanie, 384
Simons, Elwyn, 145
Simpson, George Gaylord, 80, 101, 129, 172, 395
Simpson, O. J., 34
Sinai, 30, 31
Sinoconodon, 296, 303
Sinodelphys, 302–305
Sinornis, 284–287
Sinornithosaurus, 283
sirenians, 348–353
sister group, 143
Sivapithecus, 145–146, 363
Sivatherium, 340–341
Skhul cave, Israel, 368
Sky Woman, 27
“small shelly fauna,” 175–177
Small, William, 96
Smith, Adam, 96
Smith, J. L. B., 228–229
Smith, John Maynard, 100
Smith, William, 58–59, 61
Smith, Winston, 24
Smithsonian Institution, 48, 385
snake handling cult, 7
snakes, 256–260, 299
soapberry bug, 125
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, 137
sockeye salmon, 123
soft-bodied organisms, 55–56
Solenodonsaurus, 247–248
Solnhofen Limestone, 276
Solomon’s temple, 30
Solounias, Nikos, 340–342
South Africa, 228–232
Soviet genetics, 389
Soviet Union, 35
special pleading, 20
“species problem,” 99
Spinoza, Benedict, 96
spirochaetes, 165–166
sponges, 176
spontaneous generation, 96–97
Sprigg, Reg, 173
Sputnik, 35, 386
St. Augustine, 32
Stalin, 389
Stanley, Steven, 19
stapes, 299
stasis, 87–88
statistics, 18
Staurikosaurus, 267–270
Stegosaurus, 275
stegotetrabelodonts, 348–351
stenomylines, 340
Sternberg, Richard, 48
stickleback fish, 123–125
“stirrup” bone, 299
Stoibostromus, 176
Stoyte, Jo, 372
stromatolite, 70, 152–156, 170–172
structural genes, 106, 371
sturgeon, 223–224
Sumerian, 28–30
Sun-Mother, 28
Sunderland, Luther, 144
Supai Group, 73–74
supernatural, 10–11
supernaturalism, 2
superstition, 18
Supreme Court, 36, 37
Susano-o, 28
Swaggart, Jimmy, 380
sympatric speciation, 87
synapsids, 245, 290–301
syneresis cracks, 70
synsacrum, 285
Systema Naturae, 130