Atheist Universe

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Book cover from the retitled second edition of Atheist Universe

Atheist Universe: Why God Didn't Have a Thing To Do With It is a book originally self-published by David Mills in 2004. Ulysses Press of Berkeley, California, published a 2nd edition in August, 2006, for distribution to major bookstore chains. The 2nd edition of Atheist Universe is subtitled The Thinking Person's Answer to Christian Fundamentalism and includes a foreword by Dorion Sagan, son of Carl Sagan.

As of March 8th, 2007, Atheist Universe sits at #1,208 in Amazon's book sales rank. However, it was at one point Amazon's best selling book on atheism.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Synopsis

David Mills writes that his book is aimed at "open-minded readers who are not afraid to learn...about the many conflicts and controversies between science and the Christian Bible."^[1]

He does not claim to put forward any new ideas in the book - all the information in the book, he claims, are already in the public domain and that this book is meant as consolidation, to put these pieces together to "articulate why...all science and all logic indicate that we live in an Atheist Universe."^[2]

The chapter titles are as follows: