If methodology suggests an answer, then the selection of methodology must reasonable and self correcting in nature governed only by what the evidence shows.

We also need to understand the inherent limitations of the tools we use to seek truth.

This book is welcome cold water to many late night coffee house theorizers.

If God is the all powerful, all perfect creator of all things, how does one come to know God? According to Baruch Spinoza, it's by knowing nature, God's handiwork.

A more recent and just as enthusiastic entry in describing a popularly comprehensible story of creation.

Another exposition of cosmic theory.

Amazingly, progress is being made here. See my related list: The Arrow of Time (made comprehensible).

Using an atom it introduces us to the nexus between physics and chemistry.

Like reading the bible, actually reading this series gives you a better understanding of what Darwin actually did and did not say and gives you a better appreciation of this 19th century man's genuis.

Blackmore's more contemporary treatment of the meme discussion.

A minimalist history of the human race. In what ways have we really moved beyond our ancestors?

The answer to what makes us religious is akin to the answer to what makes us, us. For more on this topic, see my related list: Why We Believe.

Hofstader's "religion" is many things, a Pulitzer Prize winner, an intellectual funhouse but perhaps most a challenge for each of us to follow our own candle out of darkness.