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1. Christopher Hitchens

   Author of Letters to a Young Contrarian, The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography

2. Bart D. Ehrman

   Author of God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question--Why We Suffer, Peter, Paul, and Mary Magdalene: The Followers of Jesus in History and Legend, The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot: A New Look at Betrayer and Betrayed

3. Victor J. Stenger

   Author of God: The Failed Hypothesis. How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist, The New Atheism

4. Susan Jacoby

   Author of The Age of American Unreason, Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism

5. Dan Barker

   Author of Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists

6. Alan Grafen

   Author of Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think

7. Alf J. Mapp

   Author of The Faith of our Fathers

8. Joseph J. Ellis

   Author of American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic

9. Jennifer Michael Hecht

   Author of Doubt : a history : the great doubters and their legacy of innovation, from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson

10. Chris Mooney

    Author of The Republican War on Science

11. Richard Labunski

    Author of James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights

12. Jon Meacham

    Author of American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation

13. Jay Winik

    Author of The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800

14. Daniel C. Dennett

    Author of Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

15. Michael Shermer

    Author of Why Darwin Matters

16. David Mills

    Author of Atheist Universe: Why God Didn't Have a Thing to Do with It

17. John Allen Paulos

    Author of Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up

18. David L. Holmes

    Author of The Faiths of the Founding Fathers

19. Sam Harris

    Author of The Moral Landscape

20. John Brockman

    Author of Intelligent Thought