I’ve been reading Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright, which I have to say is one of the most frustrating books I’ve ever worked through. Not because it is a bad book, but because the author is doing his job: Wright maintains a detached, non-judgmental, even sympathetic tone while …
Category Archive: Books
Jan 08 2013
A children’s book about evolution?
We need a lot more of these. Check out Little Changes by Tiffany Taylor.
Jan 08 2013
Atheism and the real search for meaning
Almost every day, I get a pugnacious email or a tweet saying something like this: Atheism is the lack of belief in the existence of gods. Period. It’s been that way for about three years now, ever since I gave a talk in Montreal in which, in a brief aside (at about the 18’30″ mark), …
Jan 07 2013
The most despised science reviewer of 2012 is…
We’re through the looking glass again, with another weird post from the Guardian’s pet anti-science writer, the philosopher/theologian Mark Vernon. He’s never met a critic of science he didn’t love, and every scientist is a promoter of scientism. He’s a knee-jerk teleologist, which is a fancy way of saying he sees god everywhere. His latest …
Nov 26 2012
Simon Davis takes one for the team
He read Faitheist! And he wrote a review! It seems a very even-handed review, although it does expose some of the biographical details that Stedman trades on to be completely invented. It’s also a review that kills any interest I might have in ever reading the book.
Sep 13 2012
Things to do on Sunday in Minneapolis
Come to a book reading! the Minnesota Atheists are sponsoring a reading at the Southdale Libary at 2pm from our anthology, Atheist Voices of Minnesota: an Anthology of Personal Stories. I’ll be reading from my chapter, and a heap o’ other people will read their godless stories, and then afterwards we’re heading over to Q …
Sep 05 2012
More childrens’ books, please
This looks worthy: Annaka Harris has a kickstarter project for a children’s book, I Wonder. I Wonder is about a little girl named Eva who takes a walk with her mother and encounters a range of mysteries – from gravity, to life cycles, to the vastness of the universe. She learns to talk about how …
Aug 29 2012
Hitchens’ last eloquent gasp
I just ordered Hitchens’ Mortality; it’ll be out next week. I’m very much looking forward to it in a grim sort of way. You can read the last chapter right now, and incoherent and scattered as those terminal jottings are, it’s still marvelously well-written. My favorite quote so far? If I convert it’s because it’s …
Aug 27 2012
This is my happy face
Because my copy of Evolution: Making Sense of Life, by Carl Zimmer and Douglas Emlen, arrived today. Actually, I lied. My happy face is oscillating back and forth with my frowny face. My frowny face is saying that I’ve got too much work to do to enjoy a new evolution textbook, no matter how well …
Aug 15 2012
No more Stainless Steel Rat
I’m sad to report that another author from my personal golden age of science fiction, Harry Harrison, has died. I also have fond memories of his extremely Darwinian Deathworld novels, and of course, the satirical Bill, the Galactic Hero stories.
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