Blogger has several limitations – one of which is a fairly clumsy method of recommending books. If I use my profile to recommend books I’m not allowed to post links to them, or even talk about them. If I use my sidebar (Template) I’m stuck with a very long sidebar that clutters up my site. Putting them into a daily blog like this is not ideal either, because I still have to do a lot of editing – fortunately I use an offline editing program to allow me to create a template – but it is still a kludge. I’m still planning on redoing my entire site at some point – based around WordPress or some such editor, and privately hosted.
But until then, I offer you books that I’ve read and recommend. These books include science vs. pseudoscience, religion vs. non-religion, secular history, philosophy, origins of life and universe.
- The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design – by Dawkins, Richard
- The Ancestor’s Tale : A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution – by Dawkins, Richard
- A Devil’s Chaplain : Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love – by Dawkins, Richard
- The Selfish Gene – by Dawkins, Richard
- Creationism’s Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design – by Forrest, Barbara and Paul R. Gross
- Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Debunking Pseudoscience – by Gardner, Martin
- Women Without Superstition : No Gods – No Masters – by Gaylor, Annie L.
- The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory – by Green, Brian
- The Happy Heretic – by Hayes, Judith
- The Complete Works of Robert G. Ingersol (Read it online) – by Ingersol, Robert G.
- Freethinkers : A History of American Secularism – by Jacoby, Susan
- Paine, Thomas – Age of Reason (Read it online) – by
- Tales of the Rational : Skeptical Essays About Nature and Science – by Pigliucci, Massimo
- Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing “Hoax” – by Plait, Philip C.
- Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions – by Randi, James
- The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark – by Sagan, Carl
- How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age – by Schick, Theodore and Lewis Vaughn
- Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time – by Shermer, Michael
- The Science of Good and Evil : Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule – by Shermer, Michael
- How We Believe : Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God – by Shermer, Michael
- Ken’s Guide to the Bible – by Smith, Ken
- The Woman’s Bible (Read it online)- by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Letters from the Earth (Read it online) – by Twain, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens)