Michael Shermer

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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. Richard Dawkins

   Author of The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution, River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life, Climbing Mount Improbable
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3. Carl Sagan

   Author of The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, The Dragons of Eden, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
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4. Stephen Jay Gould

   Author of Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, Bully for Brontosaurus, The Lying Stones of Marrakech: Penultimate Reflections in Natural History
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5. Martin Gardner

   Author of Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Debunking Pseudoscience, Science: Good, Bad, and Bogus
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6. James Randi

   Author of The Faith Healers, An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural, The Mask of Nostradamus: The Prophecies of the World's Most Famous Seer
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7. Daniel C. Dennett

   Author of Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, Freedom Evolves
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8. Steven Pinker

   Author of How the Mind Works, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
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9. Sam Harris

   Author of The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, The Moral Landscape
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10. Christopher Hitchens

    Author of God is Not Great, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
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11. John Allen Paulos

    Author of Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences, Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up

12. Robert L. Park

    Author of Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud
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13. 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 Happiness Myth

14. Philip Plait

    Author of Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing "Hoax", Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End . . .

15. Susan Jacoby

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

16. Bart D. Ehrman

    Author of Jesus Interrupted, God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question--Why We Suffer, Forged: Writing in the Name of God--Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are

17. Robert Todd Carroll

    Author of The Skeptic's Dictionary: A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions

18. Victor J. Stenger

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

19. Thomas Gilovich

    Author of How We Know What Isn't So

20. Dan Barker

    Author of Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists, Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist