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Did Adam And Eve Have Navels? : Discourses On Reflexology, Numerology, Urine Therapy, And Other Dubious Subjects

  • Did Adam And Eve Have Navels? : Discourses On Reflexology, Numerology, Urine Therapy, And Other Dubious Subjects

  • Attribution

    Martin Gardner

  • Publication Details

    Book, W.W. Norton, 2000

  • Availability

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  Q173 .G34 2000  AVAILABLE

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  • Description

    A hilariously skeptical work that ranks with Harold Bloom’s Omens of the Millennium and Carl Sagan’s The Demon-Haunted World. In Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?, Gardner muses on topics as diverse as numerology, the late Senator Claiborne Pell’s paranormal passions, Freud’s flawed dream theory, the Heaven’s Gate suicides, William F. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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  • Contents

    • Pt. I. Evolution vs. Creationism
    • 1. Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?
    • 2. Phillip Johnson on Intelligent Design - - Pt. II. Astronomy
    • 3. Near-Earth Objects: Monsters of Doom?
    • 4. The Star of Bethlehem
    • Pt. III. Physics
    • 5. The Great Egg-Balancing Mystery
    • 6. Zero-Point Energy and Harold Puthoff
    • 7. David Bohm: The Guided Wave
    • Pt. IV. Medical Matters
    • 8. Reflexology: To Stop a Toothache, Squeeze a Toe!
    • 9. Urine Therapy
    • Pt. V. Psychology
    • 10. Freud’s Flawed Theory of Dreams
    • 11. Post-Freudian Dream Theory
    • 12. Jean Houston: New Age Guru
    • Pt. VI. Social Science
    • 13. Is Cannibalism a Myth?
    • 14. Alan Sokal’s Hilarious Hoax
    • 15. The Internet: A World Brain?
    • 16. Carlos Castaneda and New Age Anthropology
    • Pt. VII. UFOs
    • 17. Claiborne Pell, Senator from Outer Space
    • 18. Courtney Brown’s Preposterous Farsight
    • 19. Heaven’s Gate: The UFO Cult of Bo and Peep
    • Pt. VIII. More Fringe Science
    • 20. Thomas Edison, Paranormalist
    • 21. What’s Going On at Temple University?
    • Pt. IX. Religion
    • 22. Isaac Newton, Alchemist and Fundamentalist
    • 23. Farrakhan, Cabala, Baha’i, and 19
    • 24. The Numerology of Dr. Khalifa
    • 25. The Religious Views of Stephen Jay Gould and Darwin
    • 26. The Wandering Jew
    • 27. The Second Coming
    • Pt. X. The Last Word
    • 28. Science and the Unknowable

  • ISBN

    • 0393049639
    • 9780393049633

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