The Truth About Muhammad - Founder of the World's Most Intolerant Religion By Robert Spencer

 I'm just giving you the chapters name:   :-d


Contents
Chronology of Muhammad's life
Names and places

Chapter 1: Why a biography of Muhammad is relevant today
Is Islam a religion of peace? Why it matters
Dueling Muhammads
Why Muhammad matters
Polite fictions are useless
The purpose of this book
Why I did not want to write this book
Death to "blasphemers"
Defending freedom of speech
General notes

Chapter 2: In search of the historic Muhammad 19
What can we really know about Muhammad?
The Qur'an
The Hadith
The S ira
Historical fact and Muslim belief

Autobiography of Charles Darwin

My father's autobiographical recollections, given in the present chapter, were written for his children,--and written without any thought that they would ever be published. To many this may seem an impossibility; but those who knew my father will understand how it was not only possible, but natural. The autobiography bears the heading, 'Recollections of the Development of my Mind and Character,' and end with the following note:--"Aug. 3, 1876. This sketch of my life was begun about May 28th at Hopedene (Mr. Hensleigh Wedgwood's house in Surrey.), and since then I have written for nearly an hour on most afternoons." It will easily be understood that, in a narrative of a personal and intimate kind written for his wife and children, passages should occur which must here be omitted; and I have not thought it necessary to indicate where such omissions are made.

The Battle for God- By: KAREN ARMSTRONG

About 40 years ago popular opinion assumed that religion would become a
weaker force and people would certainly become less zealous as the
world became more modern and morals more relaxed. But the opposite has
proven true, according to theologian and author Karen Armstrong, who
documents how fundamentalism has taken root and grown in many of the
world's major religions, such as Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. Even
Buddhism, Sikhism, Hinduism, and Confucianism have developed
fundamentalist factions. Reacting to a technologically driven world
with liberal Western values, fundamentalists have not only increased in
numbers, they have become more desperate, claims Armstrong, who points
to the Oklahoma City bombing, violent anti-abortion crusades, and the
assassination of President Yitzak Rabin as evidence of dangerous
extremes.

The Biological Roots of Human Nature: Forging Links between Evolution and Behavior

In this stimulating book, Goldsmith argues that biology has a great deal to say that should be of interest to social scientists, historians, philosophers, and humanists in general. He believes that anyone studying the social behavior of humans must take into consideration both proximate cause--the physiology, biochemistry, and social mechanisms of behavior--and ultimate cause--how the behavior came to exist in evolutionary time. Goldsmith, a neurobiologist, draws examples from neurobiology, psychology, and ethology (behavioral evolution). The result is a work that overcomes many of the misconceptions that have hindered the rich contributions the biological sciences have to offer concerning the evolution of human society, behavior, and sense of identity. Among the key topics addressed are the nature of biological explanation, the relationship between genes and behavior, those aspects of behavior most likely to respond to natural selection, the relationship between evolution and learning, and some probable modes of interaction between cultural and biological evolution. By re-examining the role of biological explanation in the domain of social development,

Freedom evolves by Daniel C. Dennett

Whenever people discus the concept of freedom, inevitably you will get an argument about freewill or the lack of it. So to clear the philosophical air, Dennett has to first dispel myths associated with determinism and freewill. Can one live freely and possess free will in a deterministic world? Dennett says yes and makes a strong argument for his case. In fact freedom and determinism live compatibly with each other because to make workable choices one must have reliable and predictable (determined) choices to choose from! If determinism holds true, then you have less randomness, less unpredictability. In a totally random universe, you can't have freedom because you can never know or predict the future in a reliable way. Now of course our universe contains both deterministic elements and random elements, and no doubt you need both for an evolutionary system to work, but the point aims to show that determinism does not mean inevitable, or fate. Fatalism claims that something will happen no matter what you do (a godly plan, many times, plays this role). Determinism depends on what you do.