The book is not a parody of the Bible, This is the fourteenth book I've read for my 52 in 52 project, and it's the only one so far that I finished reading in about one day. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, as I wrote in one of my tweets tonight, puts the Bible to shame. But the authors, Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan made their writing and analysis so engaging and fairly easy to understand, that getting through was not a laborious task. Saying that I could hardly put the book down is pretty accurate. This is the fourteenth book I've read for my 52 in 52 project, and it's the only one so far that I finished reading in about one day. Astonishing in its scope, brilliant in its insights, and an absolutely compelling read, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is a triumph of popular science.more Their book culminates in a stunningly original examination of the connection between primate and human traits. Sagan and Druyan conduct a breathtaking journey through space and time, zeroing in on critical turning points in evolutionary history, and tracing the origins of sex, altruism, violence, rape, and dominance. It shows with humor and drama that many of our key traits-self-awareness, technology, family ties, submission to authority, hatred for those a little different from ourselves, reason, and ethics-are rooted in the deep past, and illuminated by our kinship with other animals. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is a thrilling saga that starts with the origin of the Earth. World renowned scientist Carl Sagan and acclaimed author Ann Druyan have written a Roots for the human species, a lucid and riveting account of how humans got to be the way we are. A tour de force of a book that begs to be seen as well as to be read."- The Washington Post Book World
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is a th NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "Exciting and provocative. A tour de force of a book that begs to be seen as well as to be read."- The Washington Post Book World World renowned scientist Carl Sagan and acclaimed author Ann Druyan have written a Roots for the human species, a lucid and riveting account of how humans got to be the way we are.
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He also examines his motivation behind making the series touching on the issues of death and the religious fanaticism of the 21st century.NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "Exciting and provocative.
Jonathan Miller looks at the Freudian view that religion is a ‘thought disorder’. The history of disbelief continues with the ideas of self-taught philosopher Thomas Paine, the revolutionary studies of geology and the evolutionary theories of Darwin. He also visits Paris, the home of the 18th century atheist, Baron D’Holbach, and shows how politically dangerous it was to undermine the religious faith of the masses. He discovers that division within the Church played a more powerful role than the scientific discoveries of the period. With the domination of Christianity from 500 AD, Jonathan Miller wonders how disbelief began to re-emerge in the 15th and 16th centuries. He is sincere and moving in this attempt to explain and understand the origins of the truth of disbelief of religious superstition and faith. So few representatives of atheism provide a compelling and earnest account for unbelief, let alone with the lucidity and intellectual vigor of Jonathan Miller. He searches for evidence of the first ‘unbelievers’ in Ancient Greece and examines some of the modern theories around why people have always tended to believe in mythology and magic. Jonathan Miller visits the absent Twin Towers to consider the religious implications of 9/11 and meets Arthur Miller and the philosopher Colin McGinn.
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