Sam Harris




Sam Harris

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"Sam Harris (born 1967) is an American non-fiction writer and philosopher. He is the author of The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason (2004), which won the 2005 PEN/Martha Albrand Award, and Letter to a Christian Nation (2006), a rejoinder to the criticism his first book attracted.

After coming under intense criticism in response to his attacks on dogmatic religious belief, Harris is cautious about revealing details of his personal life and history. He has said that he was raised by a Jewish mother and a Quaker father, and he told Newsweek that as a child, he "declined to be bar mitzvahed." He attended Stanford University as an English major, but dropped out of school following a life-alterin...more




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Published 05 November 2009



Two hundred years after Darwin's birth, scientists still can't agree on whether evolution and religion can happily coexist



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avg rating: 3.93 | 5,132 ratings | 876 reviews | 6 distinct works | 29 fans
The End of Faith: Religion, Te... The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
by Sam Harris
avg rating 3.89 — 2,601 ratings — published 2004
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Letter to a Christian Nation Letter to a Christian Nation
by Sam Harris
avg rating 3.98 — 2,287 ratings — published 2006
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Functional Neuroimaging of Bel... Functional Neuroimaging of Belief, Disbelief, and Uncertainty
by Sam Harris, Sameer A. Sheth, Mark S. Cohen
avg rating 3.88 — 8 ratings — published 2007
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The Neural Correlates of Relig... The Neural Correlates of Religious and Nonreligious Belief
by Sam Harris, Jonas T. Kaplan
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 2009
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The End of Faith The End of Faith
by Sam Harris, Brian Emerson (Narrated by)
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Putting Children First: A Repo... Putting Children First: A Report on the Effectiveness of U. S. Agency for International Development Child Survival Programs in Fiscal Year 199
by Marc J. Cohen, Sam Harris (Editor)
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"The president of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialogue with God. If he said that he was talking to God through his hairdryer, this would precipitate a national emergency. I fail to see how the addition of a hairdryer makes the claim more ridiculous or offensive."
Sam Harris (Letter to a Christian Nation)
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"I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs."
Sam Harris (Letter to a Christian Nation)
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"Man is manifestly not the measure of all things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our own, is a mystery absolute, and the only miracle worthy of the name."
Sam Harris (The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason)
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