April 2011 KAMHA develops new library

(First published April 2011)

Books of interest to Humanists. If you have something you think others might like to read you can lodge it with the library at 457 Canterbury Street or bring it to one of the KAMHA meetings. It will carry your name and still belong to you but you will have the satisfaction of knowing that it is benefiting other members instead of collecting dust on a shelf.

Current titles include:

Climbing Mount Improbable – Richard Dawkins

Letter to a Christian Nation – Sam Harris

The Heart of Things – A C Grayling

Humanism – Peter Cave

Boys & Girls – Paul Burston (Editor)

Scepticism – A C Grayling

Real Life Fairytales – Bruce Davison

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Climbing Mount Improbable

by Richard Dawkins

 

Climbing Mount Improbable is an elegant refutation of ‘intelligent design’ quackery. Evolution, with no external help has given us all the complex species observed today.

 

Dawkins, with his usual clarity, takes us through the steps in the evolution of the fig, eyes, wings, spiders webs and shells etc so that by the end of the book you will be looking at the natural world in a new way. These ideas, coupled with the approach he proposes in his 1976 book “The Selfish Gene”,  helps us to understand how we got here without gods or supernatural meddling. Kamha members circulate