(February 15, 2016 at 5:05 pm)GeneralDog Wrote: The Selfish Gene and The Greatest Show on Earth will be delivered tommorow. Im gonna have to hide these a bit better.
My mom was saying "People like Dawkuns think they are so smart." In my head i was saying "Hes a biologist of fucking course hes smart.". Now i have to defend myself against my mom, dad, and my two brothers.
Oh well, i just need to keep a rational mind.
You might want to read Carl Sagan's "Demon Haunted World".
It is not specifically an atheist book, nor is it about a specific field of science. It is basically an instruction book on how to think critically about any and all extraordinary claims.
It is a toolkit for critical thinking. It will make you into a "bullshit detector".
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
