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Notes
Preface
1 Wendy Kaminer, 'The last taboo: why America needs atheism',
New Republic, 14 Oct. 1996;
http://www. positiveatheism. org/writ/kaminer. htm.
2 Dr Zoe Hawkins, Dr Beata Adams and Dr Paul St John Smith,
personal communication.
Chapter 1: A deeply religious non-believer
Deserved respect
3 The television documentary of which the interview was a part was accompanied by a book (Winston 2005).
4 Dennett (2006).
Undeserved respect
5
6
7 8 9
10 11 12
13
14 15
The full speech is transcribed in Adams (2003) as 'Is there an artificial God? '
Perica (2002). See also http://www. historycooperative. org/ journals/ahr/108. 5/br_151. html.
'Dolly and the cloth heads', in Dawkins (2003). http://scotus. ap. org/scotus/04-1084p. zo. pdf.
R. Dawkins, 'The irrationality of faith', New Statesman (London), 31 March 1989.
Columbus Dispatch, 19 Aug. 2005.
Los Angeles Times, 10 April 2006.
http://gatewaypundit. blogspot. com/2006/02/islamic-society-of- denmark-used-fake. html.
http://news. bbc. co. uk/2/hi/south_asia/4686536. stm; http://www. neandernews. com/? cat=6.
Independent, 5 Feb. 2006.
Andrew Mueller, 'An argument with Sir Iqbal', Independent on Sunday, 2 April 2006, Sunday Review section, 12-16.
19 20 21
22 23
24 25
26
Congressional Record, 16 Sept. 1981. http://www. stephenjaygould. org/ctrl/buckner_tripoli. html.
Giles Fraser, 'Resurgent religion has done away with the country
vicar', Guardian, 13 April 2006.
Robert I. Sherman, in Free Inquiry 8: 4, Fall 1988, 16.
N. Angier, 'Confessions of a lonely atheist', New York Times Magazine, 14 Jan. 2001: http://www. geocities. com/mindstuff/Angier. html.
http://www. fsgp. org/adsn. html.
An especially bizarre case of a man being murdered simply because he was an atheist is recounted in the newsletter of the Freethought Society of Greater Philadelphia for March/April 2006. Go to http://www. fsgp. org/newsletters/newsletter_ 2006_0304. pdf and scroll down to 'The murder of Larry Hooper'.
http://www. hinduonnet. com/thehindu/mag/2001/ll/18/ stories/2001111800070400. htm.
The poverty of agnosticism
27 28
29 30
31 32
33
Quentin de la Bedoyere, Catholic Herald, 3 Feb. 2006.
Carl Sagan, 'The burden of skepticism', Skeptical Inquirer 12, Fall
1987.
I discussed this case in Dawkins (1998).
T. H. Huxley, 'Agnosticism' (1889), repr. in Huxley (1931). The complete text of 'Agnosticism' is also available at http://
www.
University Press.
Loftus, E. and Ketcham, K. (1994). The Myth of Repressed Memory:
False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse. New York: St
Martin's.
McGrath, A. (2004). Dawkins' God: Genes, Memes and the Meaning
ofLife. Oxford: Blackwell.
Mackie, J. L. (1985). The Miracle of Theism. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Medawar, P. B. (1982). Pluto's Republic. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
Medawar, P. B. and Medawar, J. S. (1977). The Life Science: Current
Ideas of Biology. London: Wildwood House.
Miller, Kenneth (1999). Finding Darwin's God. New York:
HarperCollins.
Mills, D. (2006). Atheist Universe: The Thinking Person's Answer to
Christian Fundamentalism. Berkeley: Ulysses Books.
Mitford, N. and Waugh, E. (2001). The Letters of Nancy Mitford and
Evelyn Waugh. New York: Houghton Mifflin.
Mooney, C. (2005). The Republican War on Science. Cambridge, MA:
Basic Books.
Perica, V. (2002). Balkan Idols: Religion and Nationalism in Yugoslav
States. New York: Oxford University Press.
Phillips, K. (2006). American Theocracy. New York: Viking.
Pinker, S. (1997). How the Mind Works. London: Allen Lane.
Pinker, S. (2002). The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human
Nature. London: Allen Lane.
BOOKS CITED OR RECOMM? ND? D 385
Plimer, I. (1994). Telling Lies for God: Reason vs Creationism. Milsons Point, NSW: Random House.
Polkinghorne, J. (1994). Science and Christian Belief: Theological Reflections ofa Bottom-Up Thinker. London: SPCK.
Rees, M. (1999). Just Six Numbers. London: WeidenfeJd & NicoJson. Rees, M. (2001). Our Cosmic Habitat. London: Weidenfeld &
NicoJson.
Reeves, T. C. (1996). The Empty Church: The Suicide of Liberal
Christianity. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Richerson, P. J. and Boyd, R. (2005). Not by Genes Alone: How
Culture Transformed Human Evolution. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press.
Ridley, Mark (2000). Mendel's Demon: Gene Justice and the
Complexity ofLife. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
Ridley, Matt (1997). The Origins of Virtue. London: Penguin. Ronson, J. (2005). The Men Who Stare at Goats. New York: Simon &
Schuster.
Ruse, M. (1982). Darwinism Defended: A Guide to the Evolution
Controversies. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
Russell, B. (1957). Why I Am Not a Christian. London: Routledge. Russell, B. (1993). The Quotable Bertrand Russell. Amherst, NY:
Prometheus.
Russell, B. (1997a). The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, vol. 2:
Last Philosophical Testament, 1943-1968. London: Routledge. Russell, B. (1997b). Collected Papers, vol. 11, ed. J. C. Slater and
P. Ko? llner. London: Routledge.
Russell, B. (1997c). Religion and Science. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
Ruthven, M. (1989). The Divine Supermarket: Travels in Search of the
Soul of America. London: Chatto & Windus.
Sagan, C. (1995). Pale Blue Dot. London: Headline.
Sagan, C. (1996). The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in
the Dark. London: Headline.
Scott, E. C. (2004). Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction.
Westport, CT: Greenwood.
Shennan, S. (2002). Genes, Memes and Human History. London:
Thames & Hudson.
Shermer, M. (1997). Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience,
Superstition and Other Confusions of Our Time. New York: W. H. Freeman.
386 THE GOD D E I, US1ON
Shermer, M. (1999). How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science. New York: W. H. Freeman.
Shermer, M. (2004). The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule. New York: Holt.
Shermer, M. (2005). Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown. New York: Holt.
Shermer, M. (2006). The Soul of Science. Los Angeles: Skeptics Society. Silver, L. M. (2006). Challenging Nature: The Clash of Science and Spirituality at the New Frontiers of Life. New York: HarperCollins.
Singer, P. (1990). Animal Liberation. London: Jonathan Cape.
Singer, P. (1994). Ethics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Smith, K. (1995). Ken's Guide to the Bible. New York: Blast Books. Smolin, L. (1997). The Life of the Cosmos.
London: Weidenfeld &
Nicolson.
Smythies, J. (2006). Bitter Fruit. Charleston, SC: Booksurge.
Spong, J. S. (2005). The Sins of Scripture. San Francisco: Harper. Stannard, R. (1993). Doing Away with God? Creation and the Big
Bang. London: Pickering.
Steer, R. (2003). Letter to an Influential Atheist. Carlisle: Authentic
Lifestyle Press.
Stenger, V. J. (2003). Has Science Found God? The Latest Results in
the Search for Purpose in the Universe. New York: Prometheus. Susskind, L. (2006). The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the
Illusion of Intelligent Design. New York: Little, Brown. Swinburne, R. (1996). Is There a God? Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
Swinburne, R. (2004). The Existence of God. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
Taverne, R. (2005). The March of Unreason: Science, Democracy and
the New Fundamentalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Tiger, L. (1979). Optimism: The Biology of Hope. New York: Simon
& Schuster.
Toland, J. (1991). Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography, New York:
Anchor.
Trivers, R. L. (1985). Social Evolution. Menlo Park, CA: Benjamin/
Cummings.
Unwin, S. (2003). The Probability of God: A Simple Calculation that
Proves the Ultimate Truth. New York: Crown Forum.
Vermes, G. (2000). The Changing Faces of Jesus. London: Allen Lane.
BOOKS CITED OR RECOMMENDED 387
Ward, K. (1996). God, Chance and Necessity. Oxford: Oneworld. Warraq, I. (1995). Why I Am Not a Muslim. New York: Prometheus. Weinberg, S. (1993). Dreams of a Final Theory. London: Vintage. Wells, G. A. (1986). Did Jesus Exist? London: Pemberton.
Wheen, F. (2004). How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions. London: Fourth Estate.
Williams, W, ed. (1998). The Values of Science: Oxford Amnesty Lectures 1997. Boulder, CO: Westview.
Wilson, A. N. (1993). Jesus. London: Flamingo.
Wilson, A. N. (1999). God's Funeral. London: John Murray.
Wilson, D. S. (2002). Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion and the
Nature of Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Wilson, E. O. (1984). Biophilia. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press.
Winston, R. (2005). The Story of God. London: Transworld/BBC. Wolpert, L. (1992). The Unnatural Nature of Science. London: Faber
& Faber.
Wolpert, L. (2006). Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: The
Evolutionary Origins of Belief. London: Faber & Faber.
Young, M. and Edis, T. , eds (2006). Why Intelligent Design Fails: A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism. New Brunswick:
Rutgers University Press.
Notes
Preface
1 Wendy Kaminer, 'The last taboo: why America needs atheism',
New Republic, 14 Oct. 1996;
http://www. positiveatheism. org/writ/kaminer. htm.
2 Dr Zoe Hawkins, Dr Beata Adams and Dr Paul St John Smith,
personal communication.
Chapter 1: A deeply religious non-believer
Deserved respect
3 The television documentary of which the interview was a part was accompanied by a book (Winston 2005).
4 Dennett (2006).
Undeserved respect
5
6
7 8 9
10 11 12
13
14 15
The full speech is transcribed in Adams (2003) as 'Is there an artificial God? '
Perica (2002). See also http://www. historycooperative. org/ journals/ahr/108. 5/br_151. html.
'Dolly and the cloth heads', in Dawkins (2003). http://scotus. ap. org/scotus/04-1084p. zo. pdf.
R. Dawkins, 'The irrationality of faith', New Statesman (London), 31 March 1989.
Columbus Dispatch, 19 Aug. 2005.
Los Angeles Times, 10 April 2006.
http://gatewaypundit. blogspot. com/2006/02/islamic-society-of- denmark-used-fake. html.
http://news. bbc. co. uk/2/hi/south_asia/4686536. stm; http://www. neandernews. com/? cat=6.
Independent, 5 Feb. 2006.
Andrew Mueller, 'An argument with Sir Iqbal', Independent on Sunday, 2 April 2006, Sunday Review section, 12-16.
19 20 21
22 23
24 25
26
Congressional Record, 16 Sept. 1981. http://www. stephenjaygould. org/ctrl/buckner_tripoli. html.
Giles Fraser, 'Resurgent religion has done away with the country
vicar', Guardian, 13 April 2006.
Robert I. Sherman, in Free Inquiry 8: 4, Fall 1988, 16.
N. Angier, 'Confessions of a lonely atheist', New York Times Magazine, 14 Jan. 2001: http://www. geocities. com/mindstuff/Angier. html.
http://www. fsgp. org/adsn. html.
An especially bizarre case of a man being murdered simply because he was an atheist is recounted in the newsletter of the Freethought Society of Greater Philadelphia for March/April 2006. Go to http://www. fsgp. org/newsletters/newsletter_ 2006_0304. pdf and scroll down to 'The murder of Larry Hooper'.
http://www. hinduonnet. com/thehindu/mag/2001/ll/18/ stories/2001111800070400. htm.
The poverty of agnosticism
27 28
29 30
31 32
33
Quentin de la Bedoyere, Catholic Herald, 3 Feb. 2006.
Carl Sagan, 'The burden of skepticism', Skeptical Inquirer 12, Fall
1987.
I discussed this case in Dawkins (1998).
T. H. Huxley, 'Agnosticism' (1889), repr. in Huxley (1931). The complete text of 'Agnosticism' is also available at http://
www.
