Sydney Atheists Podcast Episode 9 - The Atheists' Reading List

26/01/2011

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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)