I sought to tell the story of humanity from the beginning to the present. I structured this book so you can read it like a story book, where the earlier chapters are the foundations of later chapters. The following is a quick preview of what we will be discussing.
The Scientific Explanation
- The Big Bang
- How galaxies and our solar system formed.
- How our planet Earth and its moon formed.
- The first life.
- How life replicates.
- How life evolved on Earth.
Understanding How We Think
- Language and consciousness.
- Language as a tool for communication.
- How language is like sex.
- What are memes?
- How memes coalesce to religions.
- The nature of ideas and beliefs.
- How we delude ourselves.
Human Nature and Human Societies
- The three truths of being human.
- The Golden Rule.
- Why we are moral in an amoral world.
Religion
- The three main purposes of religion.
- How religions are like organisms.
- How religions are like any human organisations.
- How we enslave ourselves with our tyrannical beliefs.
- How we escaped the grips of religious oppression.
Us And Religion
- The threat to democracy.
- The threat to freedom of speech, expression and the press.
- The fallacy of religious moderation.
- Why we need to justify our beliefs to one another.
Building Our Future
- The power of reason.
- How to identify intelligent reasons.
- How to identify good information.
- What is Reasonism?
- How we can build a better future by understanding human nature.