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Permalink Reply by Nelson on February 18, 2012 at 11:27pm

Hi Anthony! Welcome! :)
Regarding book suggestions, is there any particular subject you'd like to start with? Or is there an area where you could especially use some polish?

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Permalink Reply by Anthony Tignor on February 18, 2012 at 11:37pm

Hello Nelson and thank you.
I would like to start with Evolution. If it's possible could you recommend me documentaries rather then books, I still live with my parents(they're religious and don't know I'm a atheist)so it;s kinda hard to read around here.

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Permalink Reply by Nelson on February 19, 2012 at 12:09am

I'll suggest some books and leave the documentaries to others since books are what I'm best at.

Richard Dawkins- The Greatest Show on Earth

Richard Dawkins- Climbing Mount Improbable

Richard Dawkins- The Ancestor's Tale

Jerry Coyne- Why Evolution is True

Sean B. Carroll- The Making of the Fittest

Cameron Smith- The Fact of Evolution

Jonathan Weiner- The Beak of the Finch

Donald Prothero- What the Fossils Tell Us and Why it Matters

Neil Shubin- Your Inner Fish

John Avise- Inside the Human Genome

Daniel Dennett- Darwin's Dangerous Idea

Elliott Sober- Evidence and Evolution

John and Mary Theberge- The Ptarmigan's Dilemma

Those will give you some insight into evolution. These next few will give you help you understand the bankruptcy of "Intelligent Design"/Creationism and the attacks against evolution mounted by proponents of Intelligent Design/Creationism.

Paul F. Lurkin and Linda Stone- Evolution and Religious Creation Myths: How Scientists Respond

Robert Pennock- The Tower of Babel: The Evidence Against the New Creationism

Nial Shanks- God, the Devil, and Darwin: A Critique of Intelligent Design Theory

Ardea Skybreak- The Science of Evolution and the Myth of Creationism

Barbara Forrest and Paul Gross- Creationism’s Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design

Maarten Boudry- Here Be Dragons (doctoral dissertation but available in pdf form online)

Matt Young and Paul K. Strode- Why Evolution Works (And Creationism Fails)

Matt Young and Taner Edis- Why Intelligent Design Fails: A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism

Read 2 from each section and you'll have the gist down. Read more and you'll have confidence. Read them all and you'll be set. :)

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Permalink Reply by Anthony Tignor on February 19, 2012 at 12:18am

Thank you so much! I will definitely try to check them out.

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Permalink Reply by Nelson on February 19, 2012 at 12:21am

My pleasure. Happy to help. You can say thank you to me by using this link when you purchase your books on Amazon. When you do so, you pay no more than you would normally through Amazon, and your books ship just as fast, but Amazon shares a tiny slice of their profit with Think Atheist and that goes to support the site and our various projects. You're going to buy them anyway, why not do it in such a way as to support the community? :)

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