Notes
Page 14: "published the first of two books”: The End of
Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason (New York: Norton, 2004}; Letter to a Christian Nation (New York: Knopf, 2006}.
Page 16: "if he had a magic wand”: See Bethany Saltman, “The Temple of Reason,” The Sun 369 (September 2006}: 6, http://www.thesunmagazine.org/369_Harris.pdf (accessed August 29, 2007}.
Page 23: "makes me embarrassed”: This statement is part of Ruse’s endorsement for Alister McGrath and Joanna Col-licutt McGrath’s The Dawkins Delusion? Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine (London: SPCK, 2007}, http://www.amazon.com/Dawkins-Delusion-Atheist-Funda mentalism-Denial/dp/product-description/083083446X (accessed August 29, 2007}.
Page 23: Scott Atran: Scott Atran, November 29, 2006, in “The Reality Club, An Edge Discussion of ‘Beyond Belief, Science, Religion, Reason and Survival,’ ” Edge, http://www. edge.org/discourse/bb.html (accessed August 29, 2007}. “Beyond Belief” was a conference at the Salk Institute, La Jolla, California, November 5-7, 2006.
Page 27: Friedrich Nietzsche: See Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, trans. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Vintage, 1974], 181; for comments on this, see Walter Kaufmann, Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist, 4th ed. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press, 1975], 96-97.
Page 27: Albert Camus: Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (New York: Vintage, 1991], 3.
Page 32: Bertrand Russell: For this particular exchange between Copleston and Russell, see Al Seckel, ed., Bertrand Russell on God and Religion (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus, 1986], 138-39. A transcript of this debate is available online; see http://www.bringyou.to/apologetics/p20.htm (accessed September 17, 2007}. This conversation appears under the heading “The Argument from Contingency.”
Page 33: Stephen Jay Gould: Quoted in David Friend and the editors of Life magazine, The Meaning of Life (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1991], 33.
Page 34: "Francis Crick’s answer”: Quoted in Michael J. Behe, Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution, 10th anniversary ed. (New York: Free Press, 2006], 248.
Page 34: "viewing the whole universe”: Quoted in Philip Graham Ryken, Jeremiah and Lamentations: From Sorrow to Hope (Wheaton, 111.: Crossway, 2001], 100.
Page 34: Carl Sagan: See Carl Sagan, “The Questfor Extraterrestrial Intelligence,” Cosmic Search 1 (1978], http://www . b igear. org/voll no2/saga n.htm.
Page 35: Donald Page: Cited in William Lane Craig, “In Defense of Rational Theism,” in Does God Exist? The Great Debate, ed. J. P. Moreland and Kai Nielsen (Nashville: Nelson, 1990], 143.
Page 35: "The trouble is”: Quoted in ibid.
Page 36: Carl Sagan: Cited in J. P. Moreland, “Yes! A Defense of Christianity,” in Does God Exist? 35-36.
Page 37: C. S. Lewis: C. S. Lewis, Miracles (New York: Macmillan, 1978], 27-28.
Page 41: "a man left a suicide note”: Adam Goldman, “The Suicide Capital of America,” AP News, February 9, 2004, http://www.cbsnews.eom/stories/2004/02/09/health/ main599070.shtml (accessed September 17, 2007}.
Page 43: Voltaire: Voltaire, “Poem on the Lisbon Disaster,” in A Treatise on Toleration and Other Essays, trans. Joseph McCabe (New York: Prometheus, 1994], 1-7.
Page 44: Antony Flew: Antony Flew, “The Case for God Challenged,” in Does God Exist? 167. Flew writes, “[J. P.] Moreland’s appeal to his ‘personal experiences’ strikes me as absolutely grotesque.”
Page 44: "The stars are raining down”: Quoted in Os Guinness, Long Journey Home: A Guide to Your Search for the Meaning of Life (Colorado Springs: WaterBrook, 2001], 33-34.
Page 44: "I would like and hope I’ll die”: Quoted in Jonathan Dollimore, Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture (New York: Routledge, 1998], 305.
Page 45: "To die for the love of boys”: Quoted in Mark Lilia, The Reckless Mind (New York: New York Review of Books, 2001], 137-58.
Page 45: "Foucault’s answers to a student”: Quoted in Guinness, Long Journey Home, 35.
Page 51: "I want to raise a generation”: Quoted in Jason R. Roberts, “The Search for Absolute Truth in a Secularized Society,” Think, May 2007, 9, http://www.focuspress.org/ blog/?p = 9 (accessed September 5, 2007}.
Page 53: "I do not know the solution”: Bertrand Russell, letter to the editor, Observer (London], October 6, 1957.
Page 54: "I don’t have any justification”: For this particular exchange between Copleston and Russell, see Seckel, ed., Bertrand Russell on God and Religion, 138-39; a transcript of this debate can be viewed at http://www.bringyou.to/ apologetics/p20.htm. This conversation appears under the heading “The Moral Argument.”
Page 56: J. L. Mackie: Quoted in J. P. Moreland, “Reflections on Meaning in Life without God,” Trinity Journal NS9 (1988): 14.
Page 57: Kai Nielsen: Kai Nielsen, “Why Should I Be Moral?” American Philosophical Quarterly 21 (1984): 90.
Page 62: "We are living now”: Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means (London: Chatto & Windus, 1946], 310.
Page 62: Richard Dawkins: See Richard Dawkins, A Devil's Chaplain (London: Weidenfield & Nicholson, 2003], 34.
Page 62: Michael Polanyi: See Michael Polanyi, Science, Faith, and Society (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1946}; also his Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1962}; see also Philip Lewin, “The Problem of Objectivity in Post-critical Philosophy,” http://www.missouriwestern.edu/orgs/polanyi/TAD%20 WEB%20ARCH1VE/TAD18-1/TAD18-l-fnl-pgl8-26-pdf.pdf (accessed September 18, 2007}.
Page 63: Viktor Frankl: Viktor E. Frankl, The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy (New York: Vintage, 1973}, xxi.
Page 63: Abdurrahman Wahid: See Bret Stephens, “The Last King of Java,” Wall Street Journal, April 7, 2007, A9.
Page 66: "suffers from a rare malady”: See “Rare Nerve Disorder Leaves Girl Pain-free,” AP News, April 26, 2004, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4788525/ (accessed September 7, 2007}; Steve Sternberg, “Chronic Pain: The Enemy Within,” USA Today, May 8, 2005, http://www.usatoday.com/ news/health/2005-05-08-chronic-pain-cover_x.htm (accessed September 7, 2007}.
Page 67: O. Hobart Mowrer: See O. Hobart Mowrer, “Sin, the Lesser of Two Evils,” American Psychologist 15 (I960): 301-4.
Page 69: Karl Marx: Karl Marx, “A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right,” in Early Writings, trans. Rodney Livingstone (London: Penguin, 1975], 244.
Page 69: "dancing to one’s DNA”: See Richard Dawkins, River out of Eden (New York: Basic Books, 1995], 133.
Page 71: Bertrand Russell: See Bertrand Russell, The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, vol. 1 (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1967], 13.
Page 71: "true story of Geary and Mary Jean”: See Patricia Edmonds, “Crash Took Devoted Parents, Loving Children,” USA Today, September 27, 1993, A3.
Page 72: "A pig is of more value”: See Peter Singer, “Sanctity of Life or Quality of Life,” Pediatrics (July 1983], 129.
Page 76: "The obvious inference”: Scott Atran, November 29, 2006, in “The Reality Club: An Edge Discussion,” http:// www.edge.org/discourse/bb.html (accessed August 29, 2007}.
Page 79: "conversation with author and pastor”: See “God Debate: Sam Harris vs. Rick Warren, "Newsweek, April9, 2007, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17889148/site/newsweek/ (accessed September 18, 2007}.
Page 81: "are many questionable assumptions”: Sam Harris, “The Empty Wager,” in the online column On Faith: A Conversation on Religion with Jon Meacham and Sally Quinn, http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/sam_harris /2007/04/the_cost_of_betting_on_faith.html (accessed October 1, 2007}.
Page 95: "Carolyn Porco’s suggestion”: See Scott Atran, November 29, 2006, in “The Reality Club: An Edge Discussion,” http://www.edge.org/discourse/bb.html (accessed August 29, 2007}. Atran comments, “We heard from Carolyn Porco that science education, pure reasoning about existential problems such as death, and collective rituals to replace religious awe with the awe and wonder of science may help free us
from religion and religious violence____ 19th century French
positivists proposed very much what Dr. Porco proposes in terms—albeit somewhat tongue in cheek—of awe-inspiring ceremonies and even temples to science. Apart from the few who founded these practices and artifacts, the attempt failed utterly to woo any significant portion of the general population, or even make further inroads among the scientific community. Most scientists rightly thought these efforts were artificial and absurd. Most religious people thought the same.”
Page 97: "as many as 40 percent”: See E. J. Larson and L. Witham, “Scientists Are Still Keeping the Faith,” Nature 386 (1997): 435-36; see also Francis Collins, “Why This Scientist Believes in God,” April 6, 2007, http://www.cnn.com/2007/ US/04/03/collins.commentary/index.html (accessed October 1, 2007}.
Page 98: "Equality is a lie”: Quoted in Philip Novak, The Vision of Nietzsche (Tondon: Vega, 2001], 16.
Page 100: C. S. Lewis: C. S. Lewis, The Great Divorce (New York: Macmillan, 1946], 69.
Page 100: George MacDonald: George MacDonald, Life Essential: The Hope of the Gospel (Wheaton, 111.: Shaw, 1974], 24-25.
Page 100: Philip Yancey: Philip Yancey, I Was Just Wondering (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998], 69.
Page 101: "mockery ... borrowed from”: Christopher Hitchens, The Missionary Position (London: Verso, 1995}.
Page 101: "conversation with Andrew Sullivan”: Sam Harris, January 23, 2007, in “Is Religion ‘Built Upon Lies’?” Be-liefnet.com, http://www.beliefnet.com/story/209/story_20904. htrnl (accessed October 1, 2007}.
Page 104: F. W. Boreham: F. W. Boreham, “The Sword of Solomon,” in The Blue Flame (London: Epworth, 1930}, 29.
Page 105: Richard Dawkins: Quoted in Chris Floyd, “A Trick of the Light: Richard Dawkins on Science and Religion,” Science and Spirit 10 (July/August 1999}: 24-31, http://www . science-sp irit.org/article_detail.php? art icle_id=71 (accessed October 1, 2007}.
Page 109: SenatorTom Harkin: Quoted in Nigel Cameron, “You Were a ‘Dot’ Once Too,” October 19, 2004, http://www. tothesource.org/10_20_2004/10_20_2004.htm (accessed September 18, 2007}.
Page 112: "Many leading proponents”: See, for example, Robert P. George, “The Moral Status of the Human Embryo,” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 48 (Spring 2005}: 201-10.
Page 112: Charles Krauthammer: Charles Krauthammer, “Stem Cell Miracle?" Washington Post (January 12, 2007}, A19, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007 /01/ll/AR2007011101571.html (accessed October 1, 2007}.
Page 112: "The odds themselves are not”: Cited in Nigel Cameron and Lori Andrews, “Cloning and the Debate on Abortion,” Chicago Tribune, August 8, 2001, http://www. genetics-and-society.org/resources/items/20010808_chicagotri-bune_cameron.html (accessed September 18, 2007}.
Page 113: Nigel Cameron: Ibid.
Page 113: Judy Norsigian: Quoted in ibid.
Page 114: Nigel Cameron: Nigel Cameron, “The Challenge of the Biotech Century,” Guardian,May 21, 2005, http://www.guardian.co.Uk/comment/story/0, ,1489112,00. htrnl (accessed October 1, 2007}.
Page 115: "As Sharansky addressed the media”: See Abraham Rabinovich, “Return of the Native,” Jerusalem Post, magazine edition, February 7, 1997, 12.
Page 116: King Crimson: From “Epitaph,” lyrics written by Peter Sinfield, performed by King Crimson, 1969.
Page 116: "We have found that”: Quoted in Sir Martin Rees, Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning (New York: Basic Books, 2003], 42.
Page 116: "does not throw dice”: Albert Einstein’s letter to Max Born, 12 December 1926, 1926, quoted in Ronald William Clark, Einstein: The Life and Times (New York: Avon, 1972}.
Page 117: "you may read it in the book”: See Dallas Willard, “Language, Being, God, and the Three Stages of Theistic Evidence,” in Does God Exist? 197-218.
Page 121: C. S. Lewis: C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man (New York: Macmillan, 1947], 48.
Page 126: John Polkinghorne: John Polkinghorne, One World: The Interaction of Science and Theology (London: SPCK, 1986], 97-98.
Page 128: "Since my dad died”: Quoted in Peggy O’Hare, “Boy Gets a Proper Burial for His Stillborn Sister,” Houston Chronicle, March 16, 2007, Bl.