Sydney Atheists Podcast Episode 9 - The Atheists' Reading List

Pirate Atheists

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)