On Being: A Scientist's Exploration of the Great Questions of Existence, (Hardcover)

from Devil_llama

A short book about life and how it came to be and how it ends. Deals with cellular beginnings, and cellular death. The book compares scientific knowledge with religious belief, and religion doesn't come off particularly positive, but the book doesn't really make any hard punches, either. It's sor...

from EmreSevinc

This is a very short read, and depending on your position, it is either preaching to the choir, or trying to persuade people who will not be persuaded by the arguments anyway. In my case, the book falls into the first category, and that's not a bad thing at all, but I think the author has a prett...

from themulhern

A great disappointment. I had hoped it would be as thoughtful and interesting as Atkins' writing in other books, but he just seems to be in a bad mood, and want to put you in one, too.

from the.ken.petersen

Do you ever find your views being shaped by the unreasonableness of the argument being presented to you? I mean, someone arguing that all religious views are childish giving one a desire to consider creationism, or an overzealous liberal leading to a momentary questioning of the equality of colou...