Reddit reviews The Atheist's Guide to Reality: Enjoying Life without Illusions

Sigh. Living in the bible belt, I know the answer to this.

I live near the headquarters main US campus of IBM, one of the most progressive companies in the US, as well as the second largest campus for CISCO, lots of biomedical research, a good number of excellent colleges (including the ones who employ Bart Ehrman and my new favorite author ever), and it's still filled with fundies once you get further than about 20 minutes away from RTP in any direction.

On the up side, housing is cheap, traffic is much better than most high tech cities, and it's not as damn hot as Houston or Dallas. I moved here as a matter of choice, and I like it. I just can't drive too far or the pervailing fog of fundiness hurts my brain. ;-)

I'm thinking of escaping for the Boulder, Colorado region in a few years. The fundies don't seem any better, but at least they have gorgeous mountains to make up for it. ;-)

(EDIT: Clarifications on local companies)

The book The Atheist's Guide to Reality explains the evolutionary reason for why we see significance where there is none (i.e. conspiracies) near the beginning. Also, it's a great book.

Background information

• The Ineffable Carrot and the Infinite Stick - An atheist's view of morality
  
  
• All Possible Worlds - The problem of evil
  
  
• Second part of The Necessity of Atheism - Why not to believe
  
  
• Morality in the Bible
  
  
• There are a number of references linking biological evolution to moral development. One is Alex Rosenberg's The Atheist's Guide to Reality, chapter 6, addresses the "scientism" of how darwinism (biological) evolution leads to a positive moral outcome in humans. You can download the file from http://www.mediafire.com/?8f9pdp1gid8sa6g. It is an EPUB file. Firefox has a FREE EPUB addon.

Here's a recent book on it from an atheist's perspective: The Atheist's Guide to Reality. He basically says Neitche was right. Here's a brief lecture by a Christian philosopher critiquing that idea: The Atheist’s Guide to Intellectual Suicide.