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Descrição: A reading list inspired by Jerry Coyne’s post on the website _Why Evolution Is True_ http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2014/03/20/i-got-the-book-you-know-the-one-with-the-best-arguments-for-god/

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Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

por Daniel C. Dennett

2,932 membros

37 críticas

3.8

6 Members: aulsmith, AntAllan, Rodemail, HxBuff, kdemetter, Condrat_Catalina

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The God Delusion

por Richard Dawkins

16,922 membros

367 críticas

3.9

5 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail, HxBuff, Luchtpint, AlanAndrews33

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Cosmos: The Story of Cosmic Evolution, Science and Civilisation

8,342 membros

87 críticas

½ 4.4

5 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail, hvg, HxBuff, kdemetter

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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

por Christopher Hitchens

8,189 membros

202 críticas

3.9

5 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail, hvg, HxBuff, mspixieears

5

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

7,075 membros

106 críticas

½ 4.3

4 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail, HxBuff, kdemetter

6

A Brief History of Time

por Stephen Hawking

6,804 membros

99 críticas

4

4 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail, hvg, HxBuff

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Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

por Bertrand Russell

4,041 membros

39 críticas

3.9

4 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail, hvg, AlanAndrews33

8

Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time

por Michael Shermer

2,427 membros

40 críticas

3.8

4 Members: aulsmith, AntAllan, Rodemail, hvg

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The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts

por Israel Finkelstein

1,323 membros

24 críticas

4

4 Members: aulsmith, AntAllan, Rodemail, hvg

10

The Blind Watchmaker

por Richard Dawkins

6,339 membros

59 críticas

4.1

3 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail, hvg

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The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

por Christopher Hitchens

2,525 membros

27 críticas

3.9

3 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail, AlanAndrews33

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The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

1,563 membros

32 críticas

½ 4.3

3 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail, hvg

13

The Age of Reason

por Thomas Paine

1,532 membros

29 críticas

4.2

3 Members: paradoxosalpha, AntAllan, AlanAndrews33

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God: The Failed Hypothesis. How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist

por Victor J. Stenger

830 membros

14 críticas

3.9

3 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail, hvg

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Religion and Science

por Bertrand Russell

608 membros

7 críticas

3.8

3 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail, AlanAndrews33

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Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists

537 membros

10 críticas

3.8

4 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail, kdemetter, AlanAndrews33,aulsmith
Explicações: aulsmith : I wasn't very impressed with this book. Don't give it to you evangelical friends and expect them to de-convert.

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The Historical Evidence for Jesus

por G. A. Wells

31 membros

1 crítica

½ 3.3

3 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail, kdemetter

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The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

5,076 membros

92 críticas

3.8

2 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail

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Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why

por Bart D. Ehrman

3,992 membros

108 críticas

3.8

2 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail

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The Grand Design

por Stephen Hawking

3,305 membros

111 críticas

½ 3.7

2 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail

21

Twilight of the Idols / The Anti-Christ

por Friedrich Nietzsche

2,092 membros

11 críticas

4

2 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail

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Jesus Interrupted

por Bart D. Ehrman

1,348 membros

48 críticas

4

2 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail

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Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam

por Michel Onfray

1,099 membros

24 críticas

½ 3.7

2 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail

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God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question--Why We Suffer

por Bart D. Ehrman

1,015 membros

30 críticas

3.8

2 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail

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The Essence of Christianity

por Ludwig Feuerbach

893 membros

12 críticas

3.8

2 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail

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The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies - How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths

por Michael Shermer

774 membros

26 críticas

3.9

2 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail

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How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science

por Michael Shermer

773 membros

9 críticas

4

2 Members: aulsmith, AntAllan
Explicações: aulsmith: This didn't add much to Why People Believe Weird Things, but if you read this one first, I think the opposite will be true.

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Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns and other Delusions

por James Randi

750 membros

10 críticas

4

2 Members: AntAllan, AlanAndrews33

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Atheism: The Case Against God

por George H. Smith

697 membros

7 críticas

3.8

2 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail

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How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life

por Thomas Gilovich

656 membros

3 críticas

3.9

2 Members: AntAllan, AlanAndrews33

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Atheist Universe: Why God Didn't Have a Thing to Do with It

por David Mills

578 membros

12 críticas

3.9

2 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail

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Atheism: A Very Short Introduction

por Julian Baggini

522 membros

7 críticas

3.8

2 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail

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Good without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe

por Greg M. Epstein

419 membros

12 críticas

3.9

2 Members: AntAllan, carolannvicki

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The God Argument: The Case against Religion and for Humanism

por A. C. Grayling

314 membros

7 críticas

4

2 Members: AntAllan, AlanAndrews33

35

Everything You Know About God Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Religion

305 membros

5 críticas

½ 3.7

2 Members: AntAllan, AlanAndrews33

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Don't Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking

por Thomas E. Kida

251 membros

3 críticas

½ 3.5

2 Members: AntAllan, AlanAndrews33

37

A Manual for Creating Atheists

por Peter Boghossian

242 membros

5 críticas

½ 3.7

2 Members: AntAllan, hvg

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Philosophers without Gods: Meditations on Atheism and the Secular Life

por Louise M. Antony

225 membros

2 críticas

½ 3.5

2 Members: AntAllan, carolannvicki

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Science and Religion

215 membros

4 críticas

½ 3.5

2 Members: AntAllan, AlanAndrews33

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The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought

por Susan Jacoby

194 membros

5 críticas

½ 3.7

2 Members: AntAllan, AlanAndrews33

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The Natural History of Religion

181 membros

2 críticas

4.2

2 Members: paradoxosalpha, AntAllan

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Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist

170 membros

5 críticas

4

2 Members: AntAllan, AlanAndrews33

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Religion without revelation

por Julian Huxley

169 membros

3 críticas

3.8

2 Members: AntAllan, AlanAndrews33

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Why I Am Not a Christian: Four Conclusive Reasons to Reject the Faith

por Richard Carrier

81 membros

6 críticas

3

2 Members: AntAllan, AlanAndrews33

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The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 1 (of 12) Dresden Edition-Lectures

por Robert Green Ingersoll

30 membros

1 crítica

4

2 Members: AntAllan, AlanAndrews33

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The Problem of God: A Short Introduction

por Peter Adam Angeles

20 membros

2 Members: AntAllan, AlanAndrews33

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Did Jesus Exist?

por George Albert Wells

17 membros

½ 3.5

2 Members: AntAllan, Rodemail

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God Doesn't; We Do: Only Humans Can Solve Human Challenges

por James A. Lindsay

6 membros

2 Members: AntAllan, AlanAndrews33

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Lead Us Not into Penn Station : Provocative Pieces

por Anne Nicol Gaylor

4 membros

1 crítica

½ 4.5

2 Members: AntAllan, AlanAndrews33

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The Selfish Gene

por Richard Dawkins

10,844 membros

119 críticas

½ 4.3

Member: AntAllan

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Critique of Pure Reason

por Immanuel Kant

6,591 membros

44 críticas

3.9

Member: AntAllan

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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

por Richard Dawkins

4,621 membros

86 críticas

4.2

Member: AntAllan

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por Ayaan Hirsi Ali

4,575 membros

193 críticas

4.2

Member: AntAllan

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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

3,856 membros

27 críticas

3.9

Member: AntAllan

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Letter to a Christian Nation

3,440 membros

94 críticas

3.9

2 Members: AntAllan, AlanAndrews33,aulsmith
Explicações: aulsmith : Too strident. Scares people more than convinces them.

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Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life

por Daniel C. Dennett

3,174 membros

35 críticas

4.1

Member: AntAllan

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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

por Steven Pinker

2,858 membros

72 críticas

4.1

Member: AntAllan

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Letters from the Earth

2,780 membros

37 críticas

4.1

Member: AntAllan

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por Friedrich Nietzsche

2,412 membros

28 críticas

3.8

Member: paradoxosalpha

60

Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

por Richard Dawkins

2,335 membros

27 críticas

3.9

Member: AntAllan

61

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

2,020 membros

11 críticas

4

Member: AntAllan

62

The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True

por Richard Dawkins

1,962 membros

45 críticas

4

Member: AntAllan

63

Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew

por Bart D. Ehrman

1,912 membros

25 críticas

3.9

Member: AntAllan

64

The Moral Animal : Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

por Robert Wright

1,871 membros

21 críticas

4

Member: AntAllan

65

A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love

por Richard Dawkins

1,737 membros

20 críticas

3.9

Member: AntAllan

66

The Future of an Illusion

por Sigmund Freud

1,727 membros

14 críticas

½ 3.6

Member: AntAllan

67

The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

1,681 membros

40 críticas

3.8

Member: AntAllan

68

por Christopher Hitchens

1,606 membros

74 críticas

4.1

Member: AntAllan

69

A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing

por Lawrence M. Krauss

1,520 membros

42 críticas

½ 3.7

Member: AntAllan

70

Letters to a Young Contrarian

por Christopher Hitchens

1,359 membros

21 críticas

4

Member: AntAllan

71

The Age of American Unreason

por Susan Jacoby

1,353 membros

47 críticas

½ 3.7

Member: AntAllan

72

Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny

por Robert Wright

1,295 membros

17 críticas

3.9

Member: AntAllan

73

Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism

por Susan Jacoby

1,250 membros

27 críticas

4.1

Member: AntAllan

74

The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb

1,221 membros

50 críticas

4

Member: AntAllan

75

Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture

por Marvin Harris

1,211 membros

19 críticas

3.8

Member: AntAllan

76

The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation

por Matt Ridley

1,066 membros

14 críticas

3.9

Member: AntAllan

77

Theological-Political Treatise

por Baruch Spinoza

1,007 membros

12 críticas

3.9

Member: AntAllan

78

The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World

por David Deutsch

994 membros

22 críticas

3.9

Member: AntAllan

79

The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade

por Ann Fessler

903 membros

48 críticas

4.2

Member: AntAllan

80

The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible

por Robin Lane Fox

775 membros

7 críticas

½ 3.7

Member: Rodemail

81

The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World

por Catherine Nixey

719 membros

26 críticas

3.8

Member: Rodemail

82

Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations

por Ayaan Hirsi Ali

701 membros

29 críticas

3.8

Member: AntAllan

83

God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales

por Penn Jillette

584 membros

36 críticas

½ 3.3

Member: AntAllan

84

The Woman's Bible

por Elizabeth Cady Stanton

521 membros

7 críticas

½ 3.7

Member: AntAllan

85

Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up

por John Allen Paulos

505 membros

12 críticas

½ 3.5

Member: AntAllan

86

The Good Book: A Humanist Bible

por A. C. Grayling

443 membros

2 críticas

½ 3.5

Member: AntAllan

87

Why I Am Not a Muslim

400 membros

6 críticas

4.1

Member: AntAllan

88

Our Kind: Who We Are, Where We Came From, Where We Are Going

por Marvin Harris

357 membros

5 críticas

4.1

Member: AntAllan

89

The Miracle of Theism: Arguments For and Against the Existence of God

por J. L. Mackie

303 membros

4 críticas

4.1

Member: AntAllan

90

The Self Illusion: How the Social Brain Creates Identity

275 membros

4 críticas

3.8

Member: AntAllan

91

The Enlightenment: And Why It Still Matters

por Anthony Pagden

263 membros

5 críticas

3.8

Member: AntAllan

92

The Faith of a Heretic

por Walter Kaufmann

262 membros

4

Member: AntAllan

93

The Cambridge Companion to Atheism

por Michael Martin

245 membros

4.1

Member: AntAllan

94

The Quotable Hitchens: From Alcohol to Zionism--The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens

por Windsor Mann

240 membros

3 críticas

½ 3.7

Member: AntAllan

95

Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Christianity

por John W. Loftus

215 membros

8 críticas

3.8

Member: AntAllan

96

Treatise on the Gods

por H. L. Mencken

211 membros

7 críticas

½ 4.4

Member: AntAllan

97

The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason

por Victor J. Stenger

207 membros

4 críticas

½ 3.6

Member: AntAllan

98

Gospel Fictions

por Randel Helms

198 membros

3 críticas

½ 3.4

Member: AntAllan

99

Atheism: A Reader

por S. T. Joshi

183 membros

3 críticas

3.9

Member: AntAllan

100

The Jesus Puzzle: Did Christianity Begin with a Mythical Christ? Challenging the Existence of an Historical Jesus

por Earl Doherty

183 membros

6 críticas

3.8

Member: AntAllan

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