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Author:

Gardner, Martin, 1914-

Title:

Did Adam and Eve have navels? : discourses on reflexology, numerology, urine therapy, and other dubious subjects / Martin Gardner.

Publisher:

W.W. Norton,

Copyright Date:

2000

Description:

xi, 333 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Science--Miscellanea.
Pseudowetenschap.
Kwakzalverij.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Science and the unknowable. [ch.] 28. Evolution vs. creationism -- [ch.] 1. Did Adam and Eve have navels? -- g [ch.] 2. Phillip Johnson on intelligent design -- pt. 2. Astronomy -- [ch.] 3. Near-earth objects : monsters of doom? -- [ch.] 4. The star of Bethlehem -- pt. 3. Physics -- [ch.] 5. The great egg-balancing mystery -- [ch.] 6. Zero-point energy and Harold Puthoff -- [ch.] 7. David Bohm : the guided wave -- pt. 4. Medical matters -- [ch.] 8. Reflexology : to stop a toothache, squeeze a toe! -- [ch.] 9. Urine therapy -- pt. 5. Psychology -- [ch.] 10. Freud's flawed theory of dreams -- [ch.] 11. Post-Freudian dream theory -- [ch.] 12. Jean Houston : New Age guru -- pt. 6. Social science -- [ch.] 13. Is cannibalism a myth? -- [ch.] 14. Alan Sokal's hilarious hoax -- [ch.] 15. The Internet : a world brain? -- [ch.] 16. Carlos Castaneda and New Age anthropology -- pt. 7. UFOs -- [ch.] 17. Claiborne Pell, senator from outer speace -- [ch.] 18. Courtney Brown's preposterous farsight -- [ch.] 19. Heaven's Gate : the UFO cult of Bo and Peep -- pt. 8. More fringe science -- [ch.] 20. Thomas Edison, paranormalist -- [ch.] 21. What's going on at Temple University -- pt. 9. Religion -- [ch.] 22. Isaac Newton, alchemist and fundamentalist -- [ch.] 23. Farrakhan, Cabala, Baha'i, and 19 -- [ch.] 24. The numerology of Dr. Khalifa -- [ch.] 25. The religious views of Stephen Jay Gould and Darwin -- [ch.] 26. The wandering Jew -- [ch.] 27. The second coming -- pt. 10. The last word -- [ch.] 28. Science and the unknowable.

ISBN:

9780393049633
0393049639

LCCN:

00034870

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

JLPF081 -- Ericson Public Library (Boone)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Des Moines)

N2AX314 -- Divine Word College - Matthew Jacoby Library (Epworth)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

D8PD522 -- North Liberty Community Library (North Liberty)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

WHPE115 -- Storm Lake Public Library (Storm Lake)

HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)

DPPE403 -- Kendall Young Library (Webster City)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)