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Carl Sagan muses on the current state of scientific thought, which offers him marvelous opportunities to entertain us with his own childhood experiences, the newspaper morgues, UFO stories, and the assorted flotsam and jetsam of pseudoscience. Along the way he debunks alien abduction, faith-healing, and channeling; refutes the arguments that science destroys spirituality, and provides […]

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The eighteenth-century Enlightenment marks the beginning of the modern age, when the scientific method and belief in reason and progress came to hold sway over the Western world. In the twentieth century, however, the Enlightenment has often been judged harshly for its apparently simplistic optimism. Here a master historian goes back to the sources to […]

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The development of just and effective social policies on such important issues as population control, abortion, sexuality, euthanasia, capital punishment, and even income distribution requires sophisticated knowledge about human nature and the environment. Too often, however, such policies are determined by religious traditions or influenced by church leaders claiming to speak with divine authority. Can […]

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New Testament scholar Gerd L’demann explains why he left Christianity and ultimately why he considers Christianity the “Great Deception.”

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Gide’s novel is a classic work that confronts the angst of existence and the attempt to live an authentic life while reconciling the burden of freedom.

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If there is such a thing as reason, it has to be universal–it must work the same way for everyone. Reason must reflect objective principles whose validity is independent of our point of view. To reason is to think systematically in ways that anyone with enough intelligence ought to be able to recognize as correct. […]

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“The Meaning of Life is a compilation of twenty-five essays by different authors on the meaning of life divided into three sections: “The Theistic Answer”, “The Non-Theistic Alternative”, and “Questioning the Question”. Particularly interesting selections are provided by William Lane Craig, Walter T. Stace, Kurt Baier, Paul Edwards, Kai Nielsen, Richard Taylor, Thomas Nagel, R. […]

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The nation’s leading expert on memory exposes the recent wave of sex abuse charges based on “repressed memories” as akin to a 20th-century version of the Salem witch trials. Drawing on many famous cases in which Loftus has been directly involved, the authors attack the ideological agenda of recovered memory proponents.

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There is no more fascinating question in all of science than that of how time, space, and matter began. Now cutting-edge researcher John Barrow guides readers on a journey to the beginning of time. With new insights, he draws us into the latest speculative theories about the nature of time and the inflationary universe, explains […]

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Emphasizing the importance of self-esteem, the author defines this vital aspect of our personality and traces its influence in our personal and professional lives.

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If Christianity was not divinely founded by God, then how did it begin? Sociologist Rodney Stark digs deep into the historical evidence on many issues — such as the social background of converts, the mission to the Jews, the status of women in the church, the role of martyrdom — to provide a vivid and […]

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Can you create life with just a taser and a bowl of soup? Most likely not, unless you give yourself a few hundred million years to experiment. Biologist Christopher Wills and marine chemist Jeffrey Bada show off the fruits of research looking for signs of life elsewhere and clues to the origin of terrestrial organisms […]

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Lavishly illustrated and easy-to-understand sequel to A Brief History of Time.

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This delightful collection of quotes from Jefferson establishes beyond dispute his enormous contributions to rationalism, freethought, and science. Often, what historians (and especially politicians) have done is to select those quotes that reflect conventional religiosity and beliefs. Here great care has been taken to exclude those quotes and to present, instead, Jefferson’s freethought legacy.

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Did Newton “unweave the rainbow” by reducing it to its prismatic colors, as Keats contended? Did he, in other words, diminish beauty? Far from it, says Dawkins–Newton’s unweaving is the key too much of modern astronomy and to the breathtaking poetry of modern cosmology. Mysteries don’t lose their poetry because they are solved: the solution […]

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Twenty-two critical essays raise serious questions about traditional claims of God’s omnipotence, omniscience, omnibenevolence, simplicity, ability to do the logically impossible, and omnipresence. LaCroix’s introductory article on metatheism explains his unique approach to issues in the philosophy of religion, providing a useful, up-front orientation for the reader.

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Book Description Among the wonders that science has uncovered about the universe, no subject has sparked more fascination and fury than evolution. In all the current highly publicized debates about creationism and its descendant “intelligent design,” there is an element of the controversy that is rarely mentioned–the evidence, the empirical truth of evolution by natural […]

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An alarming number of school districts are bending to pressure by those on the religious right to allow prayer, Bible readings, and other religious activities in classrooms, while directly infringing upon the rights of many students, believers and nonbelievers alike. Now, for the first time, noted author Robert S. Alley thoroughly examines school prayer, bringing […]