Sydney Atheists Podcast Episode 9 - The Atheists' Reading List




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Summary:   Download the episode here   Hosted By Dave The Happy Singer, with Jason Brown and Ian Woolf Produced by Jason Brown   Many of the books mentioned in this episode can be purchased from Embiggen Books www.embiggenbooks.com http://twitter.com/embiggenbooks     Books we mentioned and topics we discussed in this episode:   The God Delusion (Dawkins) http://embiggenbooks.com/god-delusion-the.html   God Is Not Great (Hitchens) http://embiggenbooks.com/god-is-not-great-how-religion-poisons-everything.html   50 reasons people give for believing in a god (Guy P. Harrison) http://embiggenbooks.com/50-reasons-people-give-for-believing-in-a-god.html   Godless (Dan Barker) http://embiggenbooks.com/godless-how-an-evangelical-preacher-became-one-of-america-s-leading-atheists.html   His Dark Materials trilogy (Phillip Pullman)   The Heaven Election, starring Dave The Happy Singer as Jesus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVKFWQXL5uU   The infamous NOMA essay can be read in "Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms" by Stephen Jay Gould   The Australian Book Of Atheism (ed. Warren Bonnett) http://embiggenbooks.com/australian-book-of-atheism-the.html   Jason is probably mistaken about the background of convicts on the first fleet, though details are incomplete http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convicts_on_the_First_Fleet   Primary Ethics http://www.primaryethics.com.au/index.html   The High Price Of Heaven (David Marr)   Marrickville Council joins Israeli Boycott http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/suburb-joins-israeli-boycott-20101220-1935z.html   ANSTO  and the Lucas Heights reactor http://www.ansto.gov.au/   The Demon Haunted World (Sagan) http://embiggenbooks.com/demon-haunted-world-science-as-a-candle-in-the-dark.html   The Blind Watchmaker The Greatest Show On Earth (Dawkins)   Why People Believe Weird Things (Shermer) http://embiggenbooks.com/index.php/why-people-believe-weird-things.html   Everything You Know About God Is Wrong (Neil Gaiman)   Good Omens (Pratchett/Gaiman)   Jesus Potter, Harry Christ (pub. Holy Blasphemy)   Too bad they never made any sequels to The Matrix http://xkcd.com/566/   Watchmen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmen   Chocolat (Joanne Harris)   The Science Of Discworld series   Small Gods (Pratchett)