Carl Sagan's A Demon Haunted World

I've recently got interested in science and skepticism when researching Naturalism on line. Naturalism being the philosophy that all that exists are natural forces and matter, the idea that everything can be explained as natural phenomena by science. There is a website for it : http://www.naturalism.org/

The naturalistic world view seemed to fit my own. I've always been interested in science and nature and at the same time rejected supernatural ideas like souls and afterlives. I had a general idea of how science worked, how its based on observations, experiments, theories, facts and laws, relying on evidence and replicable data. I knew it was important for medicine, nutrition and technology, as well as finding and studying how the world works. But only recently I thought about applying the scientific method to claims people make about anything. I concluded I have to reject anything based on faith or without enough supporting evidence. That means anything like alternative medicine, astrology, reincarnation, bigfoot, to name a few. I had a basic idea of what was unfounded, but it wasn't until I read Nonsense On Stilts: How to Tell Science From Bunk by Massimo Pigliucci that I understood why. He mentions things such as falsifiability and others that really put claims to the test.

Looking for another book on science and skepticism I stumbled upon Sagan's A Demon Haunted World. It went over logical fallacies, occam's razor, the baloney detection kit and more. He suggests the idea that just because we want something to be true doesn't make it any more true. He brings up the Invisible dragon in his garage scenario, in which if you can't invalidate something in any way the essentially it might as well not exist. He brings up things like false memory syndrome and hallucinations as explanations for aliens. He states that reality is much better than delusion. He warns of how scientific illiteracy are threatening the country. His writing style is unique and makes me want to keep reading.

The next book I will read next I haven't decided. But I know it will be on a similar topic. Maybe something by Michael Schermer. 

This way of critical thinking has opened up my mind to seem more beauty in nature but also it shows me how many people are so gullible and deceive themselves.