Monday, September 26, 2011

Books to Read

What Evolution Is"- Ernst Mayr X

"The Making of the Fittest"

"Remarkable Creatures"- Sean B Carroll

"Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea" -Carl Zimmer X

"The Ancestor's Tale"

"The Greatest Show on Earth"- Richard Dawkins

"Your Inner Fish"- Neil Shubin



"The Evolution Revolution"--McNamara and Long: http://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Revolution-Kenneth-J-McNamara/dp/0471974072/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1286946475&sr=1-1

"Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution"--Richard Fortey: http://www.amazon.com/Trilobite-Eyewitness-Evolution-Richard-Fortey/dp/0375706216/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1286946215&sr=8-1

As for my latest reading list the books which have lately had the biggest impact on me were

"Flat Earth"- Christine Harwood

"Galileo goes to Jail; and other myths about science and religion"- compiled by Ronald L Numbers.

"Biology and Ideology: from Descarte to Dawkins" compiled by Denis Alexander and Ronald L Numbers.

Definitely read "Biology and Ideology" when you get the chance. Every essay in it I have read has been a treat (Though Number's entry was mostly an excerpt from his Opus Dei "The Creationists").

A lot of the more "trash-talking" atheists (and of course creationists) could stand to read it too.

It has 13 Essays in all, out of which I have read:

#2 "Biology, Atheism and Politics in late 18th Century France": Shirley A. Roe

#5 "Race, Empire and Biology Before Darwinism" Sujit Sivasundaram

#6 "Darwin's Choice" Nicholas Rupke

#7 "Biology and the Emergence of the AngloAmerican Eugenics Movement" Edward J Larson

#8 "Genetics, Eugenics and the Holocaust" Paul Weindling

#9 "Darwinism, Marxism and Genetics in the Soviet Union" Nikolai Krementsov

#10 "Evolution and the Idea of Social Progress" Michael Ruse (another author who never fails to disappoint)

#12 "Creationism, Intelligent Deisign and Modern Biology" Ronald L Numbers

#13 "The Ideological Uses of Evolutionary Biology in Recent Atheist Apologetics" Alistair McGrath

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