Russell Stannard - The Divine Imprint: Finding God in the Human Mind

Abraham 137, 156

Adam 2, 21, 120, 145

adaptations 47, 501, 71, 73, 82, 91, 94, 96, 111, 115

altruism 5869, 115; on behalf of close kin 61, 689, 115; reciprocal 614, 689, 113, 115

Amos 117

anthropic principle 247, 29, 131

archetypes 11114, 149

argument from design see design, argument from

Arp, Jean 74

Augustine, St 11, 323, 42

awareness 19, 40, 523, 96, 101, 1045, 116, 121, 140, 162

awe, sense of 834, 101, 1034, 107, 1145, 119, 1323

beauty, sense of 7182, 104, 107, 115, 123, 1334; as a by-product 823; in art 747, 86, 119; in literature 778; in mathematics and science 812; in music 7880, 116, 119; in nature 801; sexual 715, 115

behaviour see competitive behaviours; genetically determined behaviour; genetically influenced behaviour

belief, roots of 7, 17, 30, 34, 11624, 171

Bible 2, 5, 1416, 29, 45, 118, 129, 137, 142, 156, 165, 169

Big Bang 2, 24, 30, 32, 133, 138

Big Crunch 25

block universe 1401, 161

brain, modular structure of 47, 85

Breuning, Wilhelm 161

Bruckner, Anton 80

causation 302, 52, 134, 138, 15760

CERN laboratory 138

cheaters 623, 68, 91

co-creators 1289

cognitive science of religion 89

commandment, greatest 38, 118; see also Ten Commandments

communication through the physical 1435

competitive behaviour 18, 5860, 63, 723, 87, 89, 113, 115

conscience 102, 105

consciousness 3942, 45, 58, 60, 70, 1045, 11316, 1204, 128, 133, 140, 145, 157, 1602, 16871; of God 6, 34, 389, 412, 45, 1202, 124, 160; as an epiphenomenon 39, 525, 159

Constable, John 75

convergence 147

creation through evolution 1458

creationism 212

creativity, sense of 847, 12930

Crick, Francis 51

critical density 25

Daniel 157

Darwin, Charles 17, 22, 46, 79, 81, 131

Dawkins, Richard 2, 113, 171

death 5, 58, 11819, 135, 1467, 156, 15968

Dennett, Dan 40

Descartes, Ren 11, 34

design: argument from 1730, 1312, 136, 1447; Intelligent Design 213

determinism 536

devil 16, 149

DNA 1819, 21, 65, 68, 100, 111, 122, 136

Earth 3, 22, 257, 31, 33, 43, 88, 131, 135, 147, 150, 156

ego 105, 114, 149

Einstein, Albert 32, 1389, 161

Elijah 117

emergent properties 43

entropy 135

eternal life or afterlife 108, 156, 15962

evil 70, 118, 123, 14856; as absence of goodness 1489

evolution, Darwins theory of 1727, 445, 131, 1457; of the eye 223

evolutionary psychology 4552, 60, 66, 69, 7382, 8591, 94, 97, 1025, 11011, 11516, 119

Ezekiel 156

feelings 53

Feuerbach, Ludwig 106

free will 548, 116, 119, 123, 130, 140, 146, 1523; argument from 1523; compatibilist approach to 57; as illusion 54, 57, 119

Freud, Sigmund 10510, 156

genes 18, 20, 47, 53, 58, 61, 645, 69, 72, 75, 87, 94, 100, 112, 1467

Genesis 2, 118, 120, 134, 145

genetically determined behaviour 19

genetically influenced behaviour 19, 47, 100, 111, 113

God: as all-powerful 101, 148, 150, 153; as Creator 323, 11617, 128, 130, 1334, 138, 1416, 154; as father figure 106, 10910, 118, 1545; his kind of love 155; his foreknowledge 137, 1401, 161; as an illusion 91, 99, 102, 110; of justice 4, 106, 146, 1556; of love 4, 38, 90, 129, 142, 1556; as Sustainer 33, 1201; as unknowable 154; see also numinous presence of God

God of the gaps 13, 223, 98, 127

Golden Calf 98

goodness 4, 95, 123, 14853

gossip 5860

gravity, strength of 247

Ground of All Being 4, 304, 1204

Hardy, Alister 103

Hawking, Stephen 30, 171

Heisenberg uncertainty principle 55

Hirst, Damien 77

Holocaust 60, 6970, 123, 149

Hosea 117

Hume, David 70

hyperactive agent detector device 95

Ibsen, Henrik 78

id 105

inflation 25

Isaac 156

Isaiah 156

Jacob 156

Jeremiah 107, 118, 130, 137, 156

Jesus 11, 1517, 2930, 38, 69, 107, 118, 137, 1423, 154, 157, 16370

Jewish miracle stories, nature of 1635

Jonah 107

Jung, Carl 38, 10914, 149; see also self, Jungian; shadow, Jungian

Kant, Immanuel 45, 3738, 127

Keats, John 160

Kng, Hans 4, 161

laws of nature 4,6, 1314, 28, 30, 43, 51, 527, 88, 1347, 1415, 153, 163

Libet, Benjamin 54

language: acquisition of 4950, 150; used to describe God 4, 6, 3841, 4950, 115, 158

Laplace, Pierre-Simon 14, 41

Large Hadron Collider 138

length contraction 138

life, nature of 201, 434

M-theory 302

Mary Magdalene 166

Maxwell, James Clerk 81

Messiah 166

Milky Way galaxy 133

mind see otherness of the mind; theory of mind (ToM)

Minkowski, Hermann 139

miracles, 1417, 1413, 1635

Mondrian, Piet 77

Monet, Claude 76, 131

moral sense 4, 65, 6971, 901, 104, 115, 11819, 123, 149

Morris, Simon Conway 147

Moses 29, 107, 110, 130, 156

Mother Teresa 123

Muhammad 2930

multiverse 289, 1312

nature see laws of nature

near-death experiences 1623

neurons 46, 159

Nocke, Franz-Josef 160

numinous presence of God 1002, 107, 114, 123, 1323

opposites, definition by means of 14950

order and disorder 81, 1347

original sin 1234

otherness of the mind 11416, 119, 123, 12731, 1689

pain 401, 53, 68, 118, 1512

Palamas, St Gregory 42

Paley, William 17

Pascal, Blaise 42

Paul, St 15, 137, 167

personhood 106, 121

Peter, St 1516, 137, 165, 170

Pleistocene hunter-gatherers 4850, 59, 62, 723, 80, 845, 91, 945

Pollock, Jackson 77

prayer 17, 889, 1014, 124, 132, 137

presidential height index 84

projection, psychological 106, 109

projections of spacetime 139, 161

promiscuity 64, 703

process theologians 137

psyche 602, 72, 99, 114, 123, 127

psychoanalysis 1056

purpose, sense of 38, 879, 96, 99, 104, 115, 118, 12930

quantum theory 557, 137

Quran 29, 169

relativity, Einsteins theory of 32, 13841, 1612

religion as a commitment device 8993

religious drive 88100, 1123

religious experiences 10210, 1136

Rembrandt van Rijn 76

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste 76

repression 59, 105, 109

resurrection 15, 137, 1567, 1609

Rossetti, Christina 12

self, Jungian 114

self-replicating survival machine 6, 512, 57, 102, 11516, 127, 162

sexual selection 79

Shakespeare, William 78

shadow, Jungian 149

space, creation of 32, 138

spacetime 32, 13840, 1612; see also projections of spacetime

spandrels 4950, 82, 94, 115

spatial dimensions, number of 27

standard social science model 45

stars: carbon formation in 26; formation and death of 247, 133

suffering 4, 38, 90, 107, 129, 14656

Sun 3, 247, 31, 88, 97, 122, 133, 135, 148

superego 105, 107, 109

supernova explosions 27

Ten Commandments 65

Tennyson, Alfred Lord 63

theory-laden data 1589

theory of mind (ToM) 969

Thomas, St 164

Tillich, Paul 4, 120

time: creation of 323, 138; dilation 138

timelessness or transcendence 33, 13741

Tolstoy, Leo 78

unconscious 54, 59, 67, 1047, 11014, 122; collective 111, 122

universe 238, 303, 12833, 136; observable 133

Van Gogh, Vincent 131

VMAT2 gene 100

Wilson, Edward O. 51

wish fulfilment 1069, 1567

world line 1612

Yahweh 117

In its broad sweep, this is a most astonishing book. Russell Stannard, a scientist himself, opens with science and design, moves on to consciousness and the unconscious, and ends with God as the Ground of All Being. Altogether a remarkable achievement and a brilliant response to the New Atheists!