Table of Contents
Preface 9
Introduction: Truth and Consequences 17
Part 1 From So Simple a Beginning: Evolution and the Scientific Process
Chapter 1 The Dissent of Man 37
Chapter 2 A Grain in the Balance 53
Chapter 3 One Longsome Argument 69
Chapter 4 Grasping at Straws and Coming to Grips: How Science Really Works 81
Part 2 Science for Everyone
Chapter 5 A Cause for Cerebration 103
Chapter 6 Canon Fodder 111
Chapter 7 Like Confessing a Murder 127
Chapter 8 Estranged Bedfellows 141
Part 3 Transcending Faith
Chapter 9 A Crisis of Faith 155
Chapter 10 Faith: The Good, the Bad, and the Dogmatic 173
Chapter 11 What God Hath Wrought 191
Chapter 12 Faith, Hope, and Parity 213
Part 4 Life, the Universe, and Everything
Chapter 13 Framing the Big Picture 235
Chapter 14 What Are the Odds ? 253
Chapter 15 A Cause Céleste 267
Summary and Conclusion 281
Notes 313
Index 333