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Sydney Atheists Podcast Episode 9 - The Atheists' Reading List

Jan 26, 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)

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