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I personally stopped liking Dawkins after his God Delusion. It became too much anti-religion instead of pro-science for me.


I can very much recommend The Big Bang, by Simon Singh. It's a history of astronomy and basically walks through the major discovery and people that showed us the universe started with the Big Bang. Sorry for the massive amazon link.
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Stephen Jay Gould is really good for paleontology stuff. Neil Shubin "Your inner fish" is quite good too about the Tiktaalik discovery.
And maybe a strange suggestion, but I really, really like The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt by Toby Wilkinson. This is a great, accessible history of ancient Egypt and it is eye opening how religion was constantly reinvented to deal with current situations. There is no reason to think Judaic religion was or is any different.
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Big Bang by Simon Singh. Probably has a lot of stuff that you've covered in your course so far but am entertaining read nonetheless

Big Bang! by Simon Singh is great good book. Its very readable, very interesting, very accessible and it explains step by step how the big bang happened and more importantly how we know it happened the way it did. Its an absolutely fascinating read and starts off with the history of the discovery, like how we discovered how big the Earth is, how we worked out how big the moon and planets are, and their distances from Earth, and then onto other stars and galaxies. It builds up, step by step to the discovery of the Big Bang. Its totally logical and completely convincing. That should show him that god didn't create the universe, it formed out of the big bang.

Also, give him this link: The Selfish Gene: The Replicators - Richard Dawkins. Its Richards explanation of how life probably started on Earth and how it then went on to evolve. The first time I read it I couldn't sleep I was that excited. He says it himself that we cant know for sure, but if you read it, I think you'll agree, something like it is what must have happened. Amazing!