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Science, Religion & Evolution
“I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.” “Church and state are, and must remain, separate.” “I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof', thus building a wall of separation between church and state.” “Every new and successful example, therefore, of a perfect separation between the ecclesiastical and civil matters, is of importance; and I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity the less they are mixed together.” “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent,
— Thomas Jefferson [1743-1826]
— Ronald Reagan [1911-2004]
— Thomas Jefferson [1743-1826]
{in the 'Letter to the Danbury Baptist Association', 1 January 1802}
— James Madison [1751-1836] {in 'Letter to Edward Livingston', 10 July 1822}
but the one most responsive to change.”
— Charles Darwin [1809-82]
Charles Darwin [1809-82] entry at Wikipedia
the complete works of Charles Darwin online
biological evolution entry at Wikipedia
'separation of church & state' entry at Wikipedia
Americans United for Separation of Church & State [est. 1947]
'The Washington Spectator' article [April 2007] "The Legal Muscle Leading The Fight
To End The Separation of Church and State" by journalist Sarah Posner
Recently-Added Books & Movies
 | "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" [indep April 2008] 
Directed by Nathan Frankowski; featuring Ben Stein & Jason Collett Author Ben Stein proves himself an idiot in this propaganda for the intelligent design scam. (Science requires evidence, there is only crackpot screed in this movie.) DO NOT SEE OR BUY THIS BILGE! |
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"A Secular Age" [2007] by Charles Taylor Belknap Press 9¼x6¾ hardcover [9/2007] for $26.37 |
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"Thy Kingdom Come: An Evangelical's Lament - How The Religious Right Distorts The Faith & Threatens America" [2006] by Randall Balmer Basic Books 8¼x5½ pb [9/2007] for $10.85 Basic Books 8¼x5¾ hardcover [7/2006] for $16.47 |
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"Moral Minority: Our Skeptical Founding Fathers" [2006] by Brooke Allen Ivan R. Dee pb [10/2007] for $14.95 Ivan R. Dee 8½x6 hardcover [10/2006] for $15.72 |
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"Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved" [2006] by Frans de Waal refutes the common 'veneer theory' of morality and explains how evolution works to produce both Machiavellian survival and natural empathy Princeton Univ Press 8½x5¾ hardcover [9/2006] for $15.61 author entry at Wikipedia • author homepage at Emory Univ. |
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"Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism" [2006] by Michelle Goldberg W.W. Norton 8¼x5½ pb [4/2007] for $10.17 W.W. Norton 8¼x5½ hardcover [5/2006] for $16.29 |
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"The Battle For God" [2000] by Karen Armstrong Ballantine 8½x5½ pb [1/2001] for $10.85 Knopf 9½x6¾ hardcover [3/2000] for $26.60 |
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"The Cambridge Companion To Atheism" [2006] Edited by Michael Martin Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 pb [10/2006] for $20.71 Cambridge Univ Press hardcover [10/2006] for $61.50 |
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"God: The Failed Hypothesis - How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist" [2007] by Victor J. Stenger Prometheus Books hardcover [1/2007] for $19.32 |
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"American Fascists: The Christian Right & The War On America" [2007] by Chris Hedges Free Press 8¾x5¾ hardcover [1/2007] for $14.99 |
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"Welcome To Doomsday" [2006] by Bill Moyers, preface by Bill McKibben New York Review Books 7x5¾ pb [10/2006] for $7.95 |
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"Undermining Science: Suppression & Distortion In The Bush Administration" [2007] by Seth Shulman Univ CA Press 9x6 hardcover [1/2007] for $16.47 |
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"After Eden: The Evolution of Human Domination" [2006] by Kirkpatrick Sale Duke Univ Press pb [11/2006] for $13.57 Duke Univ Press hardcover [11/2006] for $69.95 |
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"With God On Our Side: One Man's War Against An Evangelical Coup In America's Military" [2006] by Michael L. Weinstein & Davin Seay Thomas Dunne Books 9¼x6½ hardcover [10/2006] for $17.13 |
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"Piety & Politics: The Right-Wing Assault On Religious Freedom" [2006] by Barry W. Lynn Harmony 9x6 hardcover [10/2006] for $16.32 |
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"Evolution: A Scientific American Reader" [2006] by Editors of Scientific American Magazine Univ Chicago Press 9x6 pb [9/2006] for $14.96 Univ Chicago Press 9x6¼ hardcover [9/2006] for $65.00 |
Classics To Modern Times
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"The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True & Fabulous Theology" [1795 classic]
by Thomas Paine [1737-1809] Cosimo 8x5 pb [6/2005] for $6.45 Digiread 9x6 pb [1/2005] for $6.49 |
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"Religion and Science" [1935 classic] by Bertrand Russell [1872-1970] Oxford Univ Press pb [5/97] for $10.37 Audio Scholar audio CD [6/94] for $14.92 |
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"Inherit The Wind" playscript [1955] by Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee The Scopes vs. State of Kentucky 'monkey trial' of 1925 was a sensational debate over Darwinian evolution and the first U.S. trial broadcast on national radio. The play's Henry Drummond lawyer character was modelled on Clarence Darrow, lawyer Matthew Harrison Brady was modelled on politician William Jennings Bryan, and the E.K. Hornbeck reporter character was modelled on H.L. Mencken. Ballantine mass pb [11/2003] for $6.99 Dramatists Play Service 8x5¼ pb [1/96] for $6.50 |
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United Artists October 1960 feature film
Directed by Stanley Kramer; script by Nedrick Young & Harold Jacob Smith, based on the 1955 play; starring Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Dick York, Donna Anderson, Harry Morgan, Claude Akins, Noah Beery Jr. & Norman Fell; Oscar nominations for Best Adapted Script, Best Actor {Tracy}, Best Cinematography & Best Editing, BAFTA noms for Best Film & Best Actors (Tracy & March} M.G.M. b&w DVD [11/2001] for $10.99 M.G.M. b&w VHS [2/97] out of stock/many used full credits from IMDb |
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"The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" [1962 classic] by Thomas S. Kuhn [1922-96] Univ Chicago Press 8x5¼ 3rd edition pb [12/96] for $10.01 Univ Chicago Press 3rd edition hardcover [12/96] for $33.00 online study guide at Emory University |
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"Evolution: The History of an Idea" [1984] by Peter J. Bowler Univ CA Press 9x6 3rd edition pb [7/2003] for $24.95 |
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"The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design" [1988 classic] by Richard Dawkins W.W. Norton 8½x5½ pb [9/96] for $10.85 W.W. Norton 8¼x6 hardcover [1/88] out of print/used author's official website |
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"Blueprints: Solving the Mystery of Evolution" [1989] by Maitland A. Edey & Donald C. Johanson Penguin 9¼x6¼ pb [6/90] out of print/many used Little, Brown hardcover [3/92] out of print/many used |
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"Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human" [1992] by Richard Leakey & Roger Lewin Anchor 9x6 pb [10/93] for $11.87 Doubleday 9¾x6½ hardcover [10/92] out of print/used |
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"Extinction: Evolution & the End of Man" [2002] by Michael Boulter Columbia Univ Press 8.2x6.6 hardcover [11/2002] for $26.00 |
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"The Founding Fathers and The Place of Religion In America" [2003] by Frank Lambert Princeton Univ Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [1/2003] for $32.95 |
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"Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience & What Makes Us Human" [2003] by Matt Ridley HarperCollins pb [4/2004] out of stock/used HarperCollins 9¼x6½ hardcover [4/2003] for $16.35 |
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"Why Intelligent Design Fails: A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism" [2004] by Edited by Matt Young & Taner Edis Rutgers Univ Press 9x8½ pb [3/2006] for $24.95 Rutgers Univ Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [7/2004] for $34.43 |
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"The End of Faith: Religion, Terror & the Future of Reason" [2004 New York Times bestseller] by Sam Harris winner of the 2005 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Non-Fiction W.W. Norton 8¼x5½ pb [10/2005] for $9.76 W.W. Norton 8½x5¾ hardcover [8/2004] for $16.47 author website |
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"The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution" [2004] by Richard Dawkins "thrilling & entertaining"; "a magnum opus" Mariner 9¼x6¼ pb [9/2005] for $10.88 Houghton Mifflin 9.4x6¼ hardcover [10/2004] for $18.48 |
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"Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory" [2004] by Edward J. Larson RH/Modern Library 7¼x5 hardcover [5/2005] for $15.61 Recorded Books audio [12/2004] out of print/used |
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"One Moment In Eternity: Human Evolution" [2005] by Eugene Minard, MD BookSurge Publng pb [6/2006] for $17.99 Hudson Books 8¼x5½ pb [7/2005] for $10.85 |
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"The Republican War On Science" [2005] by Chris Mooney Basic Books 8x5¼ 2nd edition pb [8/2006] for $10.17 Basic Books 9½x6½ hardcover [9/2005] for $16.47 author website/blog • official booksite |
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"Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible & Why" [2005] by Bart D. Ehrman HarperSFO 8x5¼ pb [2/2007] for $10.17 
HarperSFO 9¼x6¾ hardcover [11/2005] for $14.97 author's faculty homepage |
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"The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country From The Religious Right" [2006] by Rabbi Michael Lerner HarperSFO 7¾x5¼ pb [3/2007] for $10.17
HarperSFO 9½x6½ hardcover [2/2006] for $16.47 |
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"Right Wing Politics and Religion: The Unholy Alliance Exposed" [2006] by Henry Bechthold Howling Dog Press 8¾x5¾ pb [7/2006] for $10.17 |
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"The Science of Evolution and The Myth of Creationism: Knowing What's Real & Why It Matters" [2006] by Ardea Skybreak Insight Press 10x7 pb [9/2006] for $18.96 Insight Press 10x7¼ hardcover [9/2006] for $29.70 |
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"The God Delusion" [2006] by Richard Dawkins Houghton Mifflin 9x6¼ hardcover [9/2006] for $15.07 |
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