noble—than the false certainties of religion. This is a profound and lovely book. It should be required reading at every college on earth.

—Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith, The Moral Landscape, and Waking Up

The distinguished geneticist Jerry Coyne trains his formidable intellectual firepower on religious faith, and it’s hard to see how any reasonable person can resist the conclusions of his superbly argued book. Though religion will live on in the minds of the unlettered, in educated circles faith is entering its death throes. Symptomatic of its terminal desperation are the ‘apophatic’ pretensions of ‘sophisticated theologians,’ for whose empty obscurantism Coyne reserves his most devastating sallies. Read this book and recommend it to two friends.

—Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion

The truth is not always halfwayLAS VEGAS (CBS/AP) — A gunman on the 32nd floor of a Las Vegas hotel-casino rained heavy fire down on a crowd of over 22,000 at an outdoor country music festival, turning the expanse into a killing ground from which there was little escape. At least 59 people died.

It was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. In addition to the dead, at least 527 people were injured, authorities said.

Concertgoers screamed, ran in terror and scrambled for cover Sunday night in an attack that at first sounded like firecrackers to many but turned out to be dozens of bullets in rapid-fire bursts, perhaps from a fully automatic weapon.

SWAT teams using explosives, stormed the gunman’s Mandalay Bay hotel room and found he had killed himself, authorities said.

Investigators say