After seeing the shockingly bad reading list for the Ball State course purporting to be about the "boundaries of science" but being totally just ID/creationism, I started thinking of which books I would recommend as the counterbalance to his creationist/ID list for undergrads. This is what I've come up with. Any suggestions?
Coyne. Why Evolution is True
Darwin. On the Origin of Species
Dawkins. The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
Dawkins. The Selfish Gene
Festinger & Carlsmith. "Cognitive Dissonance" (article)
Hawking. A Brief History of Time
Krauss. A Universe from Nothing
Mills. Atheist Universe: The Thinking Person's Answer to Christian Fundamentalism
Sagan. A Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Shermer. How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God
Shermer. Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design
Sokal. Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture
Stenger. God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows that God Does Not Exist
Tyson. Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
Atheism and secular living from a woman's point of view.
Eugenie C. Scott-Evolution vs Creationism
ReplyDeleteExcellent starter since it presents both sides of the argument....and thoroughly takes creationism down.
Good one! Could be the textbook for such a course, too
ReplyDeleteThere should be something describing the scientific method and frequentism as approximations/special cases of Bayesianism.
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