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
Books we mentioned and topics we discussed in this episode:
The God Delusion (Dawkins)
God Is Not Great (Hitchens)
50 reasons people give for believing in a god (Guy P. Harrison)
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
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)
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
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convicts_on_the_First_Fleet
Primary Ethics
The High Price Of Heaven (David Marr)
Marrickville Council joins Israeli Boycott
ANSTO and the Lucas Heights reactor
The Demon Haunted World (Sagan)
The Blind Watchmaker
The Greatest Show On Earth (Dawkins)
Why People Believe Weird Things (Shermer)
Everything You Know About God Is Wrong (Neil Gaiman)
Good Omens (Pratchett/Gaiman)
Jesus Potter, Harry Christ (pub. Holy Blasphemy)
Too bad they never made any sequels to The Matrix
Chocolat (Joanne Harris)
The Science Of Discworld series
Small Gods (Pratchett)
Originally posted by drunkenmadman