Readings

Recommended Readings

Barker, Dan. Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America’s Leading Atheists

The Bible. King James Version

Cassirer, Ernst. An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture

Darwin, Charles. The Descent of Man

Darwin, Charles. The Origin of Species

Dawkins, Richard. The God Delusion

Dhammapada

Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel

Ehrman, Bart D. Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why

Epicurus. Principal Doctrines

Hume, David. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

The Koran

Paine, Thomas. The Age of Reason

Paulos, John Allen. Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains why the Arguments for God Just Don’t Add Up

Polanyi, Michael & Harry Prosch. Meaning

Russell, Bertrand. Why I Am Not A Christian And Other Essays On Religion And Related Subjects

Shermer, Michael. The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule

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