Jennifer Michael Hecht

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1. Michael Shermer

   Author of Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time, How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science, The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule

2. 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, The Next Ancient World, The End of the Soul

3. Christopher Hitchens

   Author of God is Not Great, The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography

4. Sam Harris

   Author of The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, The Moral Landscape

5. Susan Jacoby

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

6. Bart D. Ehrman

   Author of Misquoting Jesus, Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew, God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question--Why We Suffer

7. Karen Armstrong

   Author of A History of God, The Battle for God, The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions

8. Daniel C. Dennett

   Author of Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

9. Carl Sagan

   Author of The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

10. Victor J. Stenger

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

11. Dan Barker

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

12. Louis Menand

    Author of The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America

13. Charles Freeman

    Author of The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason

14. Bertrand Russell

    Author of Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

15. David Mills

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

16. John Allen Paulos

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

17. George H. Smith

    Author of Atheism: The Case Against God

18. Neil Shubin

    Author of Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

19. Pascal Boyer

    Author of Religion Explained

20. Jerry A. Coyne

    Author of Why Evolution is True