Intelligent design

Deborah Cadbury The Dinosaur Hunters About the Victorians who discovered "geological time" and started to unearth the secret past of our planet

Alexander Waugh "Time" Highly entertaining book about the way we have measured and perceived time throughout history

Vilayanur Ramachandran "The Emerging Mind" A neurologist's view of the evolution of our mind

Richard Keynes "Fossils Finches and Fuegians" Darwin's early life and the Beagle expedition

Matt Ridley "Genome" A readable tour of the human Genome with one chapter for each chromosone

or "how societies choose to fail or survive" An amazing book

How did human nature become what it is?

Darwin's "Origin of Species" with updated science and more jokes

A backwards journey along the sprawling tree of life from the present day to the primordial soup

Stephen Jay Gould "The Panda's Thumb"
Essays on natural selection and adaptation

Jared Diamond "The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee" How are we different from our closest non-human cousins ?

Stephen Pinker "The Blank Slate" Does Human Nature exist, what is it and where does it come from?

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Heaven`s Gate (John) says:

quite a collection and I have to admit I have not read any of them !
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vanvos says:

wonderful cultural still life...
a tower of science
great eye
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sugarCélineM* says:

J'aime les livres ! j'aime donc ta photo ! :)
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

lunaryuna AGAINST CENSORSHIP [deleted] says:

challenge accomplished :)
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

The Black Bull. says:

Nice to see here another book lover. Sorry I did not read any of them yet.
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

magic fly paula says:

Great collection!
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

Lookfar says:

I've got to try again with Mr Diamond - some of his generalisations have caused me to abandon previous attempts at reading his books to the end.
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

Paul Grand says:

Very nice little collection!
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Yellowhammer says:

clever arrangement, but it needs a cookbook to round off the man
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

Hubby read Collapse and love it. REALLY want to read the Dawkins. Heard it was fantastic. Thank you, seriykotik, for this list. They all sound wonderful. I love a science book that isn't cumbersome and boring. The Genome book sounds great as well.

Evolution of the human brain...have you read Carl Sagan's Broca's Brain or Dragons of Eden? Both wonderful reads.
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

seriykotik1970 says:

I got into popular science about 3 years ago- the first was the Dinosaur Hunters- science and history together, and then Genome. All these writers write with a lot of humour -and make their subject accessible to total non specialists like me.I was hopeless at all sciences at school and these books have been a revelation to me. It's been like discovering a whole wonderful new world.
Lookfar- I find Diamond a fascinating writer, he definitely focusses on the broad picture- the whole of history and the patterns that it displays no less. I love the way he looks at history from an evolutionary/ ecological point of view.But I can understand that his approach involves pretty radical generalisations!
Haggis- Thanks! I'm filled with admiration for scientists who can write so entertainingly for non specialist types like me without watering down their subject . Sometimes a paragraph of prose can feel like a mind-expanding proscribed drug.
Yelowhammer- I have (vegetarian) cookery books as well- I tried to keep this picture "on subject" but maybe I could do a still life arrangement of food and recipie books...
Let me just take this opportunity to plug the "My book collection" pool which I see as a kind of cafe where you always bump into someone you know and everyone lounges around chatting about books.
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nels1 says:

the helical structure of this is very apt:)

Please submit this to the group Viva Evolution!
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

seriykotik1970 says:

Nels1- thanks. I am glad you spotted the intelligent design of this photo. ;-) I will take a look at your group- nothing, someone said, in biology (including psychology, for that matter) makes sense without evolution.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

nels1 says:

good quote...i'd definitely agree with that.

by the way, if you haven't already, you should definitely read ramachandran's "phantoms in the brain"...it's brilliant:)
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

seriykotik1970 says:

I'd like to read more by Ramachandran- his evolutionary approach to neurology is fascinating. All these writers write well- making their subject readable for non-scientists like me.

The quote is from Theodosius Dobzhansky- a religious scientist who saw no conflict in this.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodosius_Dobzhansky

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_in_Biology_Make s_Sense_Exce...
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

nels1 says:

i agree with Dobzhansky's quote, although not with his view that christianity and evolutionary biology are compatible. any concept of theistic evolution is deeply problematic when it concerns an anthropomorphic deity.

dawkins' "god delusion" is another must-read book:)
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

seriykotik1970 says:

Certainly I agree that some concepts of God are problematic- but it's worth asking what someone means when they use this word.

'There is every reason to think that famous Einsteinisms like "God is subtle but he is not malicious" or "He does not play dice" or "Did God have a choice in creating the Universe?" are pantheistic, not deistic, and certainly not theistic. "God does not play dice" should be translated as "Randomness does not lie at the heart of all things." "Did God have a choice in creating the Universe?" means "Could the universe have begun in any other way?" ' (Dawkins- The God Delusion)

I am a creationist and an evolutionist. Evolution is God's, or Nature's method of creation. Creation is not an event that happened in 4004 BC; it is a process that began some 10 billion years ago and is still under way.

– Theodosius Dobzhansky, "Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution" (1973)

At a guess I'd say neither Dobzhansky's or Einstein's view of "God" were 'anthropomorphic' or 'supernatural'. As Dawkins points out the problem is not the word "God" but a certain type of concept - in fact as you say- the 'anthropomorphic' miracle-working intelligent designing one.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

nels1 says:

yes, i absolutely agree that the definition of "god" has to be clear when one refers to it in phrases such as "evolution is god's, or nature's method of creation". that was why i was referring to an anthropomorphic deity, and not a conceptual higher power.

there is no conflict in what Dobzhansky is saying if he is equating the word "god" to mean "nature" in a sense. however, it would be contradictory to hold the view that the theory of evolution is consistent with the god of christianity in one of his other quotes.

when a theory invokes an anthropomorphic god, all it takes is a simple question to illustrate the futility of this exercise...ie. which god?
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

happatree says:

Nice selection & shot
Posted 24 months ago. ( permalink )

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