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In the twenty-first century, religion is making a comeback, bringing in its wake extremism of all kinds. From Christian anti-abortion campaigns to suicide bombers claiming the righteousness of Islam, we are witnessing a resurgence of fundamentalism. In this seminal work, Michel Onfray exposes the destructive history of organized religion and the fiction that is God while presenting a new, authentic atheism that celebrates life and humanity.

Onfray goes back to the origins of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism to show how their scriptures have been dissected and altered, censored and rewritten by their religious leaders and zealots to suit their particular agendas. Using both historical records and religious texts, he reveals how each of these religions has fostered hatred towards women, reason, the human body, sexuality, pleasure, and individual freedom, and argues that the incalculable damage that religious intolerance has been responsible for is an abuse of power that we simply cannot endure any longer.

A book that is bound to provoke debate, this European bestseller is indispensable reading for anyone concerned with the role of religion in society today.

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With a new chapter. The phenomenal bestseller—over 1.5 million copies sold—is now a major PBS special.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs, and Steel is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples. This edition includes a new chapter on Japan and all-new illustrations drawn from the television series.

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In a book that is both groundbreaking and accessible, Daniel C. Dennett, whom Chet Raymo of The Boston Globe calls “one of the most provocative thinkers on the planet,” focuses his unerringly logical mind on the theory of natural selection, showing how Darwin’s great idea transforms and illuminates our traditional view of humanity’s place in the universe. Dennett vividly describes the theory itself and then extends Darwin’s vision with impeccable arguments to their often surprising conclusions, challenging the views of some of the most famous scientists of our day.

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In a beautifully written tour de force, the author of Consciousness Explained demonstrates the power of the theory of natural selection and shows how Darwin’s great idea transforms and illuminates our traditional view of our place in the universe. 40 line drawings.

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Dennett’s philosophical argument in support of Darwinism was a National Book Award finalist. (June)

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In this revised edition of his bestselling book The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins demonstrates how cooperation can evolve even in a basically selfish world. Contains two new chapters and a wealth of remarkable new insights into the biological world.

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Revised version of this popular explanation of evolution features two new chapters and endnotes.

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This landmark volume in scientific writing leads us on an exhilarating journey to distant galaxies, black holes, and alternate dimensions, and includes Professor Hawking’s observations about the last decade’s advances—developments that have confirmed many of his theoretical predictions. Makes vividly clear how Professor Hawking’s work has transformed our view of the universe.

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This landmark volume in scientific writing leads us on an exhilarating journey to distant galaxies, black holes, and alternate dimensions, and includes Professor Hawking’s observations about the last decade’s advances — developments that have confirmed many of his theoretical predictions. Makes vividly clear how Professor Hawking’s work has transformed our view of the universe.

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Hawking’s discovery that black holes emit particles caused great excitement among astronomers. In this succinct overview of current theories of the cosmos, the Cambridge University physicist modestly weaves in his own notable contributions while giving due credit to his colleagues. He explains why relativity implies that a “big bang” occurred and examines string theory, which posits a universe of 10 or 26 dimensions. His understanding of time’s flow leads him to conclude that intelligent beings can only exist during the expansion phase of our increasingly chaotic universe. New research on black holes and subatomic particles holds implications for scientists who, like Hawking, are attempting to devise a unified theory linking Einstein to quantum mechanics. The merit of this book is Hawking’s ability to make these ideas graspable by the lay reader. (April)

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Clear, concise, and persuasive, Atheist Universe details exactly why God is unnecessary to explain the universe and life’s diversity, organization, and beauty. The author thoroughly rebuts every argument that claims to “prove” God’s existence — arguments based on logic, common sense, philosophy, ethics, history and science.
Atheist Universe avoids the esoteric language and logic used by philosophers and presents its scientific evidence in simple lay terms, making it a richly entertaining and easy-to-read introduction to atheism. A comprehensive primer, it addresses all the historical and scientific questions, including: Is there proof that God does not exist? What evidence is there of Jesus’s resurrection? Can creation science reconcile scripture with the latest scientific discoveries?
Atheist Universe also answers ethical issues such as: What is the meaning of life without God? It’s a spellbinding inquiry that ultimately arrives at a controversial and well-documented conclusion.

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“The best general account of evolution I have read in recent years.”—E. O. Wilson. With a new introduction.

Twenty years after its original publication, The Blind Watchmaker, framed with a new introduction by the author, is as prescient and timely a book as ever. The watchmaker belongs to the eighteenth-century theologian William Paley, who argued that just as a watch is too complicated and functional to have sprung into existence by accident, so too must all living things, with their far greater complexity, be purposefully designed. Charles Darwin’s brilliant discovery challenged the creationist arguments; but only Richard Dawkins could have written this elegant riposte. Natural selection—the unconscious, automatic, blind, yet essentially nonrandom process Darwin discovered—is the blind watchmaker in nature.

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Oxford zoologist Dawkins (The Selfish Gene, The Extended Phenotype trumpets his thesis in his subtitlealmost guarantee enough that his book will stir controversy. Simply put, he has responded head-on to the argument-by-design most notably made by the 18th century theologian William Paley that the universe, like a watch in its complexity, needed, in effect, a watchmaker to design it. Hewing to Darwin’s fundamental (his opponents might say fundamentalist) message, Dawkins sums up: “The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the evolution of organized complexity.” Avoiding an arrogant tone despite his up-front convictions, he takes pains to explain carefully, from various sides, why even such esteemed scientists as Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould, with their “punctuated equilibrium” thesis, are actually gradualists like Darwin himself in their evolutionary views. Dawkins is difficult reading as he describes his computer models of evolutionary possibilities. But, as he draws on his zoological background, emphasizing recent genetic techniques, he can be as engrossing as he is cogent and convincing. His concept of “taming chance” by breaking down the “very improbable into less improbable small components” is daring neo-Darwinism. Line drawings. (November 24)

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The best-selling science book ever published in the English language, COSMOS is a magnificent overview of the past, present, and future of science. Brilliant and provocative, it traces today’s knowledge and scientific methods to their historical roots, blending science and philosophy in a wholly energetic and irresistible way.

Biography

Carl Sagan was the David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences and Director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell University; Distinguished Visiting Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology; and the cofounder and President of the Planetary Society, the largest space-interest group in the world. For the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, he was an adviser on the Mariner, Voyager, and Viking unmanned space missions, and he briefed astronauts for journeys to the moon. His Peabody Award-winning public television series, Cosmos, has been seen by more than 500 million people in over sixty countries, and the accompanying book spent seventy weeks on The New York Times bestseller list. The author of thirty books, Sagan was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence in 1978, and his novel Contact, is now a major motion picture.

In their posthumous award to Dr. Sagan of their highest honor, the National Science Foundation declared that his research transformed planetary science … his gifts to mankind were infinite.

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Throughout history, arguments for and against the existence of God have been largely confined to philosophy and theology. In the meantime, science has sat on the sidelines and quietly watched this game of words march up and down the field. Despite the fact that science has revolutionized every aspect of human life and greatly clarified our understanding of the world, somehow the notion has arisen that it has nothing to say about the possibility of a supreme being, which much of humanity worships as the source of all reality. Physicist Victor J. Stenger contends that, if God exists, some evidence for this existence should be detectable by scientific means, especially considering the central role that God is alleged to play in the operation of the universe and the lives of humans. Treating the traditional God concept, as conventionally presented in the Judeo-Christian and Islamic traditions, like any other scientific hypothesis, Stenger examines all of the claims made for God’s existence. He considers the latest Intelligent Design arguments as evidence of God’s influence in biology. He looks at human behavior for evidence of immaterial souls and the possible effects of prayer. He discusses the findings of physics and astronomy in weighing the suggestions that the universe is the work of a creator and that humans are God’s special creation. After evaluating all the scientific evidence, Stenger concludes that beyond a reasonable doubt the universe and life appear exactly as we might expect if there were no God.

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1831′de Beagle Plymouth’tan araştırma gezisi için denize açıldığında 22 yaşında genç bir doğabilimci de gemideydi. Genç adam kiliseye girmeyi, rahip olmayı planlıyor, Yaradılış Kitabı’nı savunabileceği bir fırsat yakalamış olmanın mutluluğunu yaşıyordu. Ancak gezide karşılaştığı her şey -Tierra del Fuego’nun ilkel insanlarından Galapagos Adaları’nın meşhur ispinozlarına, depremler ve volkanik patlamalardan And Dağları’nın 3600 metre yüksekliğinde bulunan deniz kabuğu fosillerine kadar- kaderini Beagle’ın kaptanı FitzRoy’unkinden ayırdı ve insanın kökenine ilişkin bilinen her şeyi alt üst eden fikirleri ortaya atmasına neden oldu. İlerde Türlerin Kökeni’ni yazacak olan bu genç bilim adamının adı Charles Darwin’di. Alan Moorehead’in “ince kalemiyle” anlatılan, çoğu Beagle yolculuğu sırasında yapılmış resimleri içeren Darwin ve Beagle Serüveni, beş yıl süren bir deniz yolculuğunun hikâyesidir.

Not: Dili orjinaldir.

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“Dengedeki bir zerrecik, hangi canlının yaşayıp, hangisinin öleceğine karar verir…” Darwin’in doğal seçilim kuramı Ortodoks düşünce ve inancı için önemli bir meydan okumayı ortaya koymaktadır. Hiçbir birey veya tür özel olarak yaratılmamıştır; hepsi acımasız bir yaşam mücadelesine kilitlenmiştir ve göreve uygun olmayanlar yok olmaya mahkumdur. Yine de türlerin kökeni (1859), aynı zamanda, ekolojik iç ilişkiler, hayvan ve bitki yaşamları, iklim ve fiziksel çevre arasındaki (ve çıkarsama yoluyla insan dünyasındaki) karşılıklı bağımlılıklarını açığa çıkartan insancıl ve esinlendirice bir bakış açısıdır.

Bilimin katı dili ile edebiyatın detaycılığını birleştiren bir üslupta, genel okuyucu için yazılmış olan Türlerin Kökeni, modern çağın temel eserlerinden birisidir.

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Evrim kuramı yaklaşık 150 yıldır tartışılan bir konudur. Kurama yönelik “bilimsel” diyebileceğimiz eleştirilerin yanı sıra salt bağnazlıktan kaynaklanan, üstelik ülkemizde giderek yoğunlaşan bir karalama kampanyasına tanık olmaktayız. Kuşkusuz, yerleşik önyargıları, dahası dincilik türünden ideolojik koşullanmaları kırmak olanaksız olmasa bile son derece güçtür; uzun süreli bir eğitim, bir aydınlanma süreci gerektirir. Kitabımın bu doğrultuda bir misyonla yüklü olduğu okurun gözünden kaçmayacaktır herhalde! Amacım, güncelliğini sürdüren çekişmeli bir konuya, elden geldiğince nesnel bir yaklaşımla açıklık getirmek, böylece özgür düşünce ve arayışı yok etmeye yönelik sinsi çabaları bir ölçüde de olsa etkisiz kılmaktır. Yoksa, Nazım Hikmet’in bir dizesinde dile getirdiği gibi, “Karanlıklar nasıl çıkar aydınlığa?”

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