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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)
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