The Humanitarian Atheist Products

The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:27:03 +0000

The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition Richard Dawkins Reviews: "Dawkins first book, The Selfish Gene, was a smash hit...Best of all, Dawkins laid out this biology-some of it truly subtle-in stunningly lucid prose. (It is, in my view, the best work of popular science ever written.)"--New York Review of Books "This important book could hardly be more exciting."--The Economist "The sort of popular science writing that makes the reader feel like a genius."--New York Times "Who should read this book? Everyone interested in the universe and their place in it."--Jeffrey R. Baylis, Animal Behaviour

The God Delusion

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:27:03 +0000

The God Delusion Richard Dawkins Review: Richard Dawkins, in The God Delusion, tells of his exasperation with colleagues who try to play both sides of the street: looking to science for justification of their religious convictions while evading the most difficult implications—the existence of a prime mover sophisticated enough to create and run the universe, "to say nothing of mind reading millions of humans simultaneously." Such an entity, he argues, would have to be extremely complex, raising the question of how it came into existence, how it communicates —through spiritons!—and where it resides. Dawkins is frequently dismissed as a bully, but he is only putting theological doctrines to the same kind of scrutiny that any scientific theory must withstand. No one who has witnessed the merciless dissection of a new paper in physics would describe the atmosphere as overly polite. -- Scientific American

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:27:03 +0000

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution Richard Dawkins Reviews: Up until now, Richard Dawkins has said everything interesting that there is to say about evolution -- with one exception. In The Greatest Show on Earth, he fills this gap, brilliantly describing the multifarious and massive evidence for evolution -- evidence that gives the lie to the notion that evolution is 'only a theory.' This important and timely book is a must-read for Darwin Year." -- Jerry Coyne, author of Why Evolution Is True