Reflections of a Scientist

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

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

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

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.

Color: A Natural History of the Palette

Victoria Finlay · 448 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.

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

John C. Lennox · 192 pages

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

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

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

Albert Hofmann · 220 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

The Marriage of Sense and Soul: Integrating Science and Religion

Ken Wilber · 225 pages

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

Alister E. McGrath, Joanna Collicutt Mcgrath · 98 pages

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

Lee Strobel · 360 pages

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

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

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

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

Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love

Dava Sobel · 420 pages

A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and LoveInspired by her long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of his daughter, which she has translated into English for the first time, Dava Sobel has written a book of great originality and power, a biography unlike any ever written on the man Albert Einstein called “the father of modern physics – indeed of modern science al

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.

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.

The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe

Lynne McTaggart · 268 pages

Science has recently begun to prove what ancient myth and religion have always espoused: There may be such a thing as a life force.Lynne McTaggart, indefatigable investigative journalist, reveals a radical new biological paradigm -- that on our most fundamental level, the human mind and body are not distinct and separate from their environment but a packet of pulsating power constantly interacting