Seven Days That Divide The World: The Beginning According To Genesis & Science

Religion and Science

Bertrand Russell · 255 pages

"In this timely work, Russell, philosopher, agnostic, mathematician, and renowned peace advocate, offers a brief yet insightful study of the conflicts between science and traditional religion during the last four centuries. Examining accounts in which scientific advances clashed with Christian doctrine or biblical interpretations of the day, from Galileo and the Copernican Revolution, to the medi

The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God

Lee Strobel · 360 pages

The God Delusion

Richard Dawkins · 416 pages

Publication Date: January 16, 2008 A preeminent scientist—and the world's most prominent atheist—asserts the irrationality of belief in God and the grievous harm religion has inflicted on society, from the Crusades to 9/11. With rigor and wit, Dawkins examines God in all his forms, from the sex-obsessed tyrant of the Old Testament to the more benign (but still illogical) Celestial Watchmaker f

Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything

Barbara Ehrenreich · 272 pages

"In middle age, Ehrenreich came across the journal she had kept during her tumultuous adolescence and set out to reconstruct that quest, which had taken her to the study of science and through a cataclysmic series of uncanny-or as she later learned to call them, "mystical"-experiences. A staunch atheist and rationalist, she is profoundly shaken by the implications of her life-long search. Part mem

The Marriage of Sense and Soul: Integrating Science and Religion

Ken Wilber · 225 pages

Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life

Stephen Jay Gould · 248 pages

"Stephen Jay Gould sheds new light on a dilemma that has plagued thinking people since the Renaissance. Instead of choosing between science and religion, Gould asks, why not opt for a golden mean that accords dignity and distinction to each realm?". "At the heart of Gould's penetrating argument is a lucid, contemporary principle he calls NOMA (for nonoverlapping magisteria) - a "blessedly simple

Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible

Jerry A. Coyne · 336 pages

**The New York Times bestselling author Jerry Coyne explains why any attempt to make religion compatible with science is doomed to fail.** In his provocative new book, evolutionary biologist Jerry A. Coyne lays out in clear, dispassionate detail why the toolkit of science, based on reason and empirical study, is reliable, while that of religion — including faith, dogma, and revelation — leads

The Dawkins Delusion?: Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine

Alister E. McGrath, Joanna Collicutt Mcgrath · 98 pages

The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason

Victor J. Stenger · 282 pages

Stenger describes how secularists have jumped on the anti-Islam hysteria generated after September 11 to take the offensive against religion generally, most often the Abrahamic monotheistic religions of the West.

Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution

Kenneth R. Miller · 338 pages

"Miller offers a thoughtful, cutting-edge analysis of the key issues that seem to divide science and religion. As his narrative shows, the difficulties that evolution presents for Western religions are more apparent than real. Properly understood, evolution adds depth and meaning not only to a strictly scientific view of the world, but also to a spiritual one. Miller's resolution of the issues tha

Darwin on Trial

Phillip E. Johnson · 247 pages

Is evolution fact or fancy? Is natural selection an unsupported hypothesis or a confirmed mechanism of evolutionary change? These were the courageous questions that professor of law Phillip Johnson originally took up in 1991. His relentless pursuit to follow the evidence wherever it leads remains as relevant today as then. The facts and the logic of the arguments that purport to establish a theory

Reflections of a Scientist

Henry Eyring · 103 pages

The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates

Frans de Waal · 304 pages

A renowned primatologist argues that ethical behavior witnessed in animals is the evolutionary and biological origin of human fairness and explains that morality has more to do with natural instincts than with religion.

Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story

Jim Holt · 309 pages

Why is there a world rather than nothing at all? This question remains the most curious and most enduring of all metaphysical mysteries. Moving away from the narrower paths of Christopher Hitchens, Roger Penrose and Stephen Hawking who insist that science alone is capable of explaining how our cosmos came into being, the author enters this debate as he examines our efforts to grasp the origins of

LSD: My Problem Child – Reflections on Sacred Drugs, Mysticism and Science

Albert Hofmann · 220 pages

The Jesuit and the Skull

Amir D. Aczel · 320 pages

Bad Faith: When Religious Belief Undermines Modern Medicine

Paul A. Offit · 253 pages

"In Bad Faith, acclaimed physician and author Paul Offit gives readers a never-before-seen look into the minds of those who choose to medically martyr themselves, or their children, in the name of religion. Never afraid of controversy, Offit takes a stark and disturbing look at our surprising capacity to risk the health and safety of children in service of our beliefs. He tells the story of two de

The Meaning of Human Existence

Edward O. Wilson · 207 pages

How did humanity originate and why does a species like ours exist on this planet? Do we have a special place, even a destiny in the universe? Where are we going, and perhaps, the most difficult question of all, "Why?" In The Meaning of Human Existence, his most philosophical work to date, Pulitzer Prize–winning biologist Edward O. Wilson grapples with these and other existential questions, examini

Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction

Eugenie C. Scott · 298 pages

God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science

James Hannam · 441 pages

God's Philosophers is a celebration of the forgotten scientific achievements of the Middle Ages - advances which were often made thanks to, rather than in spite of, the influence of Christianity and Islam. --from publisher description.

Ideas and Opinions

Albert Einstein · 377 pages

Here is a new edition of the most definitive collection of Albert Einstein's popular writings, gathered under the supervision of Einstein himself. The selections range from his earliest days as a theoretical physicist to his death in 1955; from such subjects as relativity, nuclear war or peace, and religion and science, to human rights, economics, and government.

Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death Experience

Pim van Lommel · 442 pages

"Dr. Pim van Lommel, a renowned cardiologist, was so inspired by the stories his patients told of their Near Death Experiences (NDEs) that he became the first medical practitioner to risk his reputation with a full, systematic trial into the phenomenon. He interviewed 344 heart patients at his hospital who had all clinically died, some for five minutes or longer, before being resuscitated. Of thes

god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

Christopher Hitchens · 307 pages

In the tradition of Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris's recent bestseller, The End of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion. With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos. With eloq

Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife

Eben Alexander · 196 pages

"A SCIENTIST'S CASE FOR THE AFTERLIFE Near-death experiences, or NDEs, are controversial. Thousands of people have had them, but many in the scientific community have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those people. A highly trained neurosurgeon who had operated on thousands of brains in the course of his career, Alexander knew that what people of faith call the "soul"