As I am working on updating the Biofundamentals course (and turning the web notes into a book), I find myself reading and rereading a number of great books. Mostly so that I do not forget, I will list them here. On the off chance anyone cares, I have linked them to reviews.
THE UNDERGROWTH OF SCIENCE: Delusion, Self-Deception and Human Frailty’ By Walter Gratzer, Oxford University Press [a review here] Quite amazing how often weird ideas become accepted or accepted (at least for a time), until reason prevails.
Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia by John Gray Allen Lane The main idea is that apocalyptic (religious) thinking is pervasive among people, even those who claim to be complete secularists - and it least to some truly stupid and tragic consequences (as if tragedy can be avoided in this life).
Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture by Alan Sokal An oldy but goody on how people can stop thinking and get lost in the ozone.
The fanaticism of the apocalypse by Pascal Bruckner
Religion explained by Pascal Boyer
The theory of evolution by John Maynard Smith
The age of wonder: How the romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science by Richard Holmes
Principles of social evolution by Andrew F.G. Bourke
The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins
The evolution of physics (yet again) by Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld
Farewell to reality: How modern physics has betrayed the search for scientific truth by Jim Baggott
To save everything, click here: the folly of technological solutionism by Evgeny Morozov
Religion in human evolutionL from the paleolithic to the axial age by Robert Bellah
Darwin's Lost world: The hidden history of animal life by Martin Brasier:
The Rocks don't lie: A geologists investigates Noah's Flood by David Montgomery:
Microbes and evolution: the world that Darwin never sawL Stanley Maloy
The first crusade by Steven Runciman
THE UNDERGROWTH OF SCIENCE: Delusion, Self-Deception and Human Frailty’ By Walter Gratzer, Oxford University Press [a review here] Quite amazing how often weird ideas become accepted or accepted (at least for a time), until reason prevails.
Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia by John Gray Allen Lane The main idea is that apocalyptic (religious) thinking is pervasive among people, even those who claim to be complete secularists - and it least to some truly stupid and tragic consequences (as if tragedy can be avoided in this life).
Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture by Alan Sokal An oldy but goody on how people can stop thinking and get lost in the ozone.
The fanaticism of the apocalypse by Pascal Bruckner
Religion explained by Pascal Boyer
The theory of evolution by John Maynard Smith
The age of wonder: How the romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science by Richard Holmes
Principles of social evolution by Andrew F.G. Bourke
The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins
The evolution of physics (yet again) by Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld
Farewell to reality: How modern physics has betrayed the search for scientific truth by Jim Baggott
To save everything, click here: the folly of technological solutionism by Evgeny Morozov
Religion in human evolutionL from the paleolithic to the axial age by Robert Bellah
Darwin's Lost world: The hidden history of animal life by Martin Brasier:
The Rocks don't lie: A geologists investigates Noah's Flood by David Montgomery:
Microbes and evolution: the world that Darwin never sawL Stanley Maloy
The first crusade by Steven Runciman
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