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Food for Thought

Videos

Short Stories

http://baetzler.de/humor/meat_beings.html
http://www.godlessgeeks.com/LINKS/Dragon.htm
http://www.fullmoon.nu/articles/art.php?id=tal
http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html
http://www.friesian.com/valley/dilemmas.htm
http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html
http://hermiene.net/essays-trans/elephants_wings.html
http://www.jhuger.com/kisshank.php

Essays

Free Books

http://nowscape.com/godsdebris.pdf
http://www.shsu.edu/~eng_wpf/authors/Twain/Mysterious-Stranger.htm
http://www.lulu.com/product/file-download/universally-preferable-behaviour---a-rational-proof-of-secular-ethics/1749262
http://www.kwdaniels.com/wib/WhyIBelieved.htm
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/
http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/robert_ingersoll/some_mistakes_of_moses.html
http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/thomas_paine/age_of_reason/
http://www.liarsforjesus.com/downloads/LFJ_FINAL.pdf

Interviews

Richard Dawkins: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-886041562474199609
Collin Mcginn: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7853929164413117774
Denys Turner: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4655574614978358368
Steven Weinberg: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2260129385438753065
Arthur Miller: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6439076214112083310
Daniel Dennett: http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/the_atheism_tapes_daniel_dennet/
Richard Feynman, the pleasure of finding things out: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8777381378502286852
Carl Sagan's last recorded interview: part 1, part 2, part 3
Bertrand Russell: http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=tP4FDLegX9s
Bart Ehrman: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Trt1ZWR5PqQ
Derren Brown: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=0497B17D166D4FF3
James Randi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLwfDORsf4E&playnext=1&list=PL9091010184D9CB11

New Age Debunking (psychics, homeopathy, etc)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP7v6q5vH1Y (BBC Exposes psychic frauds)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btP_vy5cQq4 (Derren Brown explains Cold reading)
http://www.ted.com/talks/james_randi.html (James Randi at TED discussing homeopathy)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9w7jHYriFo (James randi explains psychic frauds)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KbLHii8M2A (Dawkins on homeopathy)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZhmG97lYog (BBC Horizon special on homeopathy, part 1)
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/astrology.html

Critical Analysis

Critical analysis of Kent Hovind series: http://www.reddit.com/r/atheistgems/comments/e166g/critical_analysis_of_kent_hovind_series/
What if America really was a christian nation? http://www.reddit.com/r/atheistgems/comments/eaj8f/what_if_america_really_was_a_christian_nation/
Why do people laugh at creationists? http://www.reddit.com/r/atheistgems/comments/cer39/why_do_people_laugh_at_creationists/
Apologetics http://www.bidstrup.com/apologetics.htm
What did Jesus do? http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2010/05/24/100524crat_atlarge_gopnik?printable=true
The god game: http://www.philosophersnet.com/cgi-bin/god_game1.cgi
Qualiasoup's response to Pascal's wager: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZpJ7yUPwdU
25 reasons why I'm no longer a christian: http://www.control-z.com/czp/pgs/why_no_longer.html
Neil Tyson on God of the Gap: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vrpPPV_yPY
Debunking 2012 with logic: http://wimp.com/debunkinglogic/
Discovering Religion Series: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfLGb1uOSHQ&feature=bf_prev&list=PL70E757541E8576D7&index=1

Morality and Ethics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7xt5LtgsxQ (Qualiasoup on Morality I: good without gods)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSS-88ShJfo (Qualiasoup on Morality II: not-so-good books)
http://www.ted.com/talks/frans_de_waal_do_animals_have_morals.html (Morality in Animals)
http://atheistexperience.blip.tv/file/4173949/ (Matt Dillahunty: The Superiority of Secular Morality)
http://www.lulu.com/product/file-download/universally-preferable-behaviour---a-rational-proof-of-secular-ethics/1749262
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNWqvEIcJpo (deconversion series, morality video)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_morality
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/game-ethics/
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/game-evolutionary/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWNW-NXEudk (Treatise On Morality)
http://wimp.com/helpimpulse/
http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/w_k_clifford/ethics_of_belief.html

History and Literary Analysis

Christian and Biblical History

Bart Ehrman Lecture on Misquoting Jesus Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB4MPBg60Ho
History of the Devil documentary: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5381469877697541696
Examining the Existence of a Historical Jesus: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvleOBYTrDE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bible_and_history#Challenges_to_historicity
Yale open course, Intro to the Old Testament: http://oyc.yale.edu/religious-studies/introduction-to-the-old-testament-hebrew-bible/content/class-sessions/
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/richard_carrier/kooks.html
Who wrote the bible documentary: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2061773048178434620
The Bible Un-Earthed Documentary: part 1 |part 2 | part 3 | part 4
PBS The Bible's Buried Secrets: http://video.pbs.org/video/1051895565/

Bible criticisms

Ranked Contradictions by Severity: http://errancy.org
150 different ways to be saved: http://www.whyilefttherevivalfellowship.com/150-ways-to-get-saved
Contradiction list from SAB: http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/contra/by_name.html
Contradiction image (very large): http://outofthegdwaye.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/biblecontradictions-reasonproject.png
Contradiction game show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB3g6mXLEKk

Claims of Science/Miracles in the Quran

http://saskskeptics.com/2010/07/06/science-in-the-koran/
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheIslammiracle#g/c/E463E6D6891DEF37 (Entire channel dedicated to debunking Quran miracles)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FaNg_nxqns (Muhammad's Flat Earth)

Did Jesus Exist?

http://www.ebonmusings.org/atheism/camel.html
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/richard_carrier/jesuspuzzle.html
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/richard_carrier/kooks.html
http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/historicus/jesus.html
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/james_still/jesus_search.html
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/james_still/historical_jesus.html
http://www.nobeliefs.com/exist.htm
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_jcno.htm
http://www.nazarethmyth.info/Fitzgerald2010HM.pdf (Ten Beautiful Lies About Jesus)

General History

Assume the Position Lecture: part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4
Liars for Jesus: http://www.liarsforjesus.com/downloads/LFJ_FINAL.pdf

Christian Nation myth

http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/farrell_till/myth.html
http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-christianrepublic.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1r1hsrQMj8 (What if America really was a Christian Nation - part 1/3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImmfkdyKMKY (What if America really was a Christian Nation - part 2/3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7jIU0GpUFU (What if America really was a Christian Nation - part 3/3)
http://www.hnn.us/articles/132565.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYR3Hq4zaUA (One nation above god)

Neurological Biology

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNnIGh9g6fA&feature=BF&list=SP848F2368C90DDC3D&index=1 (Stanford class on Human Behavioral Biology - Playlist)
http://spoken-gems.com/2010/12/20/robert-sapolsky-biology-of-religion/ (Robert Sapolsky on the Biology of Religion)
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/vilayanur_ramachandran_on_your_mind.html (Best TED talk of all time - vram on your mind)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7991385426492181792# (god on the brain documentary)
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html (TED talk about a neurologist having a stroke)

Cosmology

http://primaxstudio.com/stuff/scale_of_universe/
What happened before the big bang: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6
Origin of the universe made easy: part 1, part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ImvlS8PLIo (A universe from nothing)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAD25s53wmE (Neil Tyson at conference)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxXf7AJZ73A (Cosmic Voyage)
http://www.hulu.com/watch/63317/cosmos-the-shores-of-the-cosmic-ocean
http://www.hulu.com/watch/63310/encyclopedia-galactica
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnURElCzGc0 (Carl Sagan on the 4th dimension)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSU3SK7UFQM (Neil Tyson, in defense of the big bang part 1)
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/

Age Of The Earth

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/101_evidences_for_a_young_age_of_the_Earth_and_the_universe
http://asa3.org/ASA/resources/Wiens.html
http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/faqs.html

Evolution

Videos

Websites

http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/faqs.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/
http://www.phylointelligence.org
http://www.actionbioscience.org/evolution/benton.html
http://ncse.com/evolution

Evidence for Evolution

http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/search/topicbrowse2.php?topic_id=46
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/
http://anthro.palomar.edu/evolve/evolve_3.htm
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/educators/lessons/lesson3/act2.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_of_common_descent
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/lines_01
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Ape_skeletons_%28bg%29.png
http://www.theistic-evolution.com/hominids2_big.jpg
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/news/051115_birdflu
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xdm5he_richard-dawkins-demonstrates-laryng_tech#from=embed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De-OkzTUDVA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh7OclPDN_s
http://bradyns.blogspot.com/2011/01/dna.html
http://www.gate.net/~rwms/EvoEvidence.html
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/evolution-classroom-bill-nye-science-education
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._coli_long-term_evolution_experiment
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080421-lizard-evolution.html
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/01/researchers-evolve-a-multicellular-yeast-in-the-lab-in-2-months.ars

TED Talks

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/vilayanur_ramachandran_on_your_mind.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/jonathan_haidt_on_the_moral_mind.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/dan_dennett_on_our_consciousness.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/dan_dennett_on_dangerous_memes.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_shermer_on_believing_strange_things.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcZFIy2mfyE
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/richard_dawkins_on_our_queer_universe.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/james_randi.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf5otGNbkuc

Documentaries

For even more, check out:
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/category/religion/

Comedy and Humor

http://www.mrdeity.com
http://www.scq.ubc.ca/genesis-of-evolution/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLNhPMQnWu4 (John Clese on Extremism)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icTrzUuWlHI (Vectron)
http://www.ebonmusings.org/atheism/guestessays/religion101.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFkeKKszXTw (traditional marriage)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDfoJ29CR4E
http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=218947&title=power---creedocide

Pamphlets

http://www.digitalfreethought.com/why_believe_in_god.pdf
http://www.jhuger.com/pamphlets/kha.pdf
http://help.northwest.nhs.uk/storage/library/Religion_Leaflet.pdf
http://wikiplans.com/story/show/63985/WhatIsAtheism.pdf
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~edmin/Pamphlets/Pamphlet%2004%20-%20Planet%20of%20the%20Hats.pdf
http://www.ffrf.org/publications/nontracts/