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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as skeptical)
avg rating 4.28 — 83,795 ratings — published 1995
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as skeptical)
avg rating 3.86 — 10,034 ratings — published 1997
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as skeptical)
avg rating 4.38 — 5,078 ratings — published 2018
Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as skeptical)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,339,438 ratings — published 2011
The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as skeptical)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,708 ratings — published 2011
Bad Astronomy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as skeptical)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,799 ratings — published 2002
A Love Letter to Whiskey (A Love Letter to Whiskey #1-1.5)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptical)
avg rating 4.11 — 132,278 ratings — published 2021
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptical)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,028,300 ratings — published 2015
The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptical)
avg rating 4.11 — 289,142 ratings — published 1980
Kill Switch (Devil's Night, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptical)
avg rating 4.28 — 202,352 ratings — published 2019
Tryst Six Venom (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptical)
avg rating 3.81 — 53,375 ratings — published 2021
Four Psychos (The Dark Side, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptical)
avg rating 4.07 — 49,660 ratings — published 2017
The Darkest Minds (The Darkest Minds, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptical)
avg rating 4.15 — 211,755 ratings — published 2012
The School for Good and Evil (The School for Good and Evil, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptical)
avg rating 3.99 — 141,226 ratings — published 2013
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptical)
avg rating 4.16 — 622,653 ratings — published 2011
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptical)
avg rating 4.33 — 41,090 ratings — published 1994
Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptical)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,241 ratings — published 2008
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptical)
avg rating 3.94 — 31,368 ratings — published 2012
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptical)
avg rating 3.95 — 160,930 ratings — published 2011
The Men Who Stare at Goats (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptical)
avg rating 3.64 — 21,178 ratings — published 2004
Paranormality: Why We See What Isn't There (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptical)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,075 ratings — published 2010
Bad Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptical)
avg rating 4.06 — 45,708 ratings — published 2008
The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptical)
avg rating 3.90 — 289,290 ratings — published 2006
The Mismeasure of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as skeptical)
avg rating 4.06 — 9,453 ratings — published 1982
The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as skeptical)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,312 ratings — published 2012
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as skeptical)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,691 ratings — published 2022
Study Skills for Students of English as a Second Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as skeptical)
avg rating 3.86 — 139 ratings — published 1970
Why There Is No God: Simple Responses to 20 Common Arguments for the Existence of God (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as skeptical)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,094 ratings — published 2014
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as skeptical)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,033,794 ratings — published 1890
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as skeptical)
avg rating 4.11 — 582,897 ratings — published 2002
South of the Border, West of the Sun (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as skeptical)
avg rating 3.85 — 160,462 ratings — published 1992
The Road Back (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as skeptical)
avg rating 4.35 — 11,010 ratings — published 1931
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as skeptical)
avg rating 3.98 — 781,610 ratings — published 1987
Thousand Cranes (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as skeptical)
avg rating 3.69 — 16,861 ratings — published 1952
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as skeptical)
avg rating 4.13 — 545,495 ratings — published 1928
The Silent Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as skeptical)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,692,018 ratings — published 2019
Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as skeptical)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,122,486 ratings — published 2023
Crayson (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as skeptical)
avg rating 4.27 — 631 ratings — published 2019
A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians (The Shadow Histories, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as skeptical)
avg rating 3.74 — 4,518 ratings — published 2020
Firian Rising (The Tanyuin Academy, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as skeptical)
avg rating 3.88 — 84 ratings — published
Here Be Dragons (Welsh Princes, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as skeptical)
avg rating 4.29 — 25,565 ratings — published 1985
When the Moon Hatched (Moonfall, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as skeptical)
avg rating 4.01 — 383,258 ratings — published 2024
Life and Other Near-Death Experiences (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as skeptical)
avg rating 3.89 — 37,376 ratings — published 2015
Wolf Soldier (Lightraider Academy, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as skeptical)
avg rating 4.15 — 310 ratings — published
Binding 13 (Boys of Tommen, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as skeptical)
avg rating 4.44 — 773,068 ratings — published 2018
If We Were Villains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as skeptical)
avg rating 4.07 — 451,987 ratings — published 2017
Still Beating (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as skeptical)
avg rating 4.18 — 278,065 ratings — published 2020
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as skeptical)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,117,589 ratings — published 2021
The Great Alone (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as skeptical)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,388,974 ratings — published 2018
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as skeptical)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,435,152 ratings — published 2015
“...I believe there is a legitimate aim of transcendence that is more modest and perhaps more realistic. We may not be able to rule out the skeptical possibility, and we may not be able to ground our normal capacity for understanding on something in which we can have even greater confidence; but it may still be possible to show how we can reasonably retain our natural confidence in the exercise of understanding, in spite of the apparent contingencies of our nature and formation. The hope is not to discover a foundation that makes our knowledge unassailably secure but to find a way of understanding ourselves that is not radically self-undermining, and that does not require us to deny the obvious. The aim would be to offer a plausible picture of how we fit into the world.
Even in this more modest enterprise both theism and naturalistic reductionism fall short. Theism does not offer a sufficiently substantial explanation of our capacities, and naturalism does not offer a sufficiently reassuring one.”
― Mind & Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False
Even in this more modest enterprise both theism and naturalistic reductionism fall short. Theism does not offer a sufficiently substantial explanation of our capacities, and naturalism does not offer a sufficiently reassuring one.”
― Mind & Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False
“A skeptical man with a credo, 'Seeing is believing'.
One day he found something so alien and said,
'I can't believe what I just saw'.
Then the other man with different credo,
'Blessed are they who believe without seeing'.
One day he found something so alien and said,
'This is blasphemy, sinful and evil'.”
― My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
One day he found something so alien and said,
'I can't believe what I just saw'.
Then the other man with different credo,
'Blessed are they who believe without seeing'.
One day he found something so alien and said,
'This is blasphemy, sinful and evil'.”
― My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
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