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Message 11 of 27 (658860)
04-10-2012 12:36 PM

Reply to: Message 1 by Kairyu
04-09-2012 5:46 PM

I'd recommend Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, though if anyone tries to charge you money for it I should point out that it is available free on Gutenberg and elsewhere.

Although it is not strictly speaking an atheist work (though it is possible that Hume was an atheist trying to fly under the radar, I don't know) it is a work of profound skepticism concerning our ability to deduce anything about God from nature, including his existence. It was written by a genius, and it shows.

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04-10-2012 2:35 PM

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04-10-2012 1:03 PM

Most people think they grasp evolution once their hear the basics, but..
It's like vaguely knowing the rules of chess and sometimes play a round with some aid, instead actually mastering the game and all it's strategies in-depth. So, books like this one are invaluable.

"Another curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everyone thinks he understands it." --- Jaques Monod.

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07-05-2012 9:03 AM

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07-04-2012 8:08 AM

Re: Great Resource

I haven't been able to find out how to get lists of books by genre. It's OK if you know the name of the book or the author, but what if you want to look at all the books falling under a certain Dewey number / Library of Congress number? Or (for example) all the detective fiction? Is there a way to do that?

Thanks.

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