Top 3
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Stephen C. Meyer
Return of the God Hypothesis
Beginning in the late 19th century, many intellectuals began to insist that scientific knowledge conflicts with traditional theistic belief—that science and belief in God are “at war.” Philosopher of science Stephen Meyer challenges this view by examining three scientific discoveries with decidedly theistic implications. Building on the case for the intelligent design of life that he developed in Signature in the Cell and Darwin’s Doubt, Meyer demonstrates how discoveries in cosmology and physics coupled with those in biology help to establish the identity of the designing intelligence behind life and the universe.
#2

Charles Darwin
From So Simple a Beginning
Never before have the four great works of Charles Darwin―Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle(1845), The Origin of Species (1859), The Descent of Man (1871), and The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals (1872)―been collected under one cover. Undertaking this challenging endeavor 123 years after Darwin’s death, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Edward O. Wilson has written an introductory essay for the occasion, while providing new, insightful introductions to each of the four volumes and an afterword that examines the fate of evolutionary theory in an era of religious resistance.
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The Rise & Reign of Mammals
Steve Brusatte
We humans are the inheritors of a dynasty that has reigned over the planet for nearly 66 million years, through fiery cataclysm and ice ages: the mammals. Our lineage includes saber-toothed tigers, woolly mammoths, armadillos the size of a car, cave bears three times the weight of a grizzly, clever scurriers that outlasted Tyrannosaurus rex, and even other types of humans, like Neanderthals.
Top 20
- Science Fictions Stuart Ritchie
- The Gene Siddartha Mukherjee
- Can Science Explain Everything? John Lennox
- Deadliest Enemy Michael Osterholm
- Emperor of All Maladies Siddartha Mukherjee
- Reality is Not What it Seems Carlo Rovelli
- Signature in the Cell Stephen C. Meyer
- The Body Bill Bryson
- The Ends of the World Peter Brannen
- Brief Answers to the Big Questions Stephen Hawking
- Relativity Albert Einstein
- The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs Steve Brusatte
- The Dawn of Everything David Graeber
- A Mind for Numbers Barbara Oakley
