I’m gonna make a list and hit the library

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    Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins

    The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan and Ann Driyan

    Read them when I was in my early 20s. Changed the way I see the world.

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      I was gonna read the selfish gene by Dawkins, but since it’s probably gonna be such a tough read, do you think your suggestion is a bit easier to digest?

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        Definitely. As a total layman in this kind of stuff, I believe I’ve read The Selfish Gene first, but at the time I was so eager to consume as much knowledge as possible in this subject, that I could maybe be misremembering all the effort and research it took for me to understand it. It’s a fascinating book, but more specific.

        Imo, Unweaving the Rainbow has a much broader appeal and is much easier reading. They’re both very different books.