Skepticism

Philosophical skepticism is an overall approach that requires all information to be well supported by evidence.

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The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit
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Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do about It
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The Skeptics' Guide to the Future: What Yesterday's Science and Science Fiction Tell Us About the World of Tomorrow
The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe
Is This Wi-Fi Organic?: A Guide to Spotting Misleading Science Online
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
The God Delusion
Bad Science
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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
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The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths
Bad Astronomy
Letter to a Christian Nation
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Thomas Paine
One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

Timothy J. Keller
If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn't rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead. ...more
Timothy Keller, The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

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