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I've just finished Ben Elton's "Blind Faith" - a great, if unnerving, vision of what could happen if Religion and the Big Brother/Facebook culture are allowed to run rampage over humanity ! I'd strongly recommend it to any atheist/agnostic. It's not as cerebral as many books mentioned here, but it's...

Start in what is (in the Current calendar) 1687 - the year Newton published Principia, formalizing the scientific method (building on the work of others, of course, but a key point nonetheless). This can be seen as the birth of modern science.

Rog

I came from pharyngula via the RDF debacle - never been on RDF forums, but thought I'd try here !