I want to make it very clear that I am not suggesting that you "believe" anything in any of these resources, but just that you consider what they have to offer with critical thinking and an open mind. 
    Suggestions? I'm suggesting them instead of recommending them simply because the term suggestions seems like it might be a bit more appropriate for my purposes. Since I'm not an expert on anything other than my own life experiences (and PC/LAN engineering and support of course), I really can't recommend anything to anyone (other than critical thinking and open-mindedness). 
    I will most likely never call anything a "must read" simply because I have no idea where you're at or what you need/want to learn about at this point in your Journey, I have no idea what you already know, and I would rather not presume to know you better than you know your self. 

The ones with links point to my review of that particular resource further down on the page (if I have one available). Otherwise, it is just named in the list and it is up to you to seek out reviews beyond your own reading or viewing of it.
Feel free to contact me to ask for my understanding or opinions about any of these resources or why I'm suggesting them at all in case I just haven't included that info here yet, or if you might want to dialogue with me about what I have included. 

Books:
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition and other Confusions of our Time
 by Michael Shermer (Not exactly sure when I started or finished, but I was in the middle of reading this book as of 20030222)
With The Grain 
 by (Author info coming soon...)
A Means to an End: The Biological Basis of Aging and Death
 by William R. Clark
The Essential Difference: The Truth about the Male and Female Brain
 by Simon Baron-Cohen
Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty
 by Nancy Etcoff
Science on Trial: the Case for Evolution 
 by Douglas J. Futuyma 

Movies:
As Good as it Gets
Patch Adams
Bicentennial Man
The War At Home
Along Came Polly 
Buddy 
SolarMax



Documentaries, educational films etc:

Earth Revealed 
 a multi-part video series about the nature and history of planet Earth
Evolution
 a multi-part video series about the nature and history, our discovery of and our growing understanding of the evolution of life on Earth  


Educational Websites:
The Skeptic's Annotated Bible



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Educational Websites
The Skeptic's Annotated Bible
Although I might not necessarily agree with all of the author's conclusions, I think I do probably share in the majority of his understanding of the bible and his reasoning in creating the website in the first place (see his "About the SAB" page) and I appreciate the work he has done. It has become one of my most frequently used points of reference when I'm discussing something in the bible with religious believers (usually having to do with such things as creation, the age of planet Earth, the flood and modern geology, paleontology and biology, the flat-Earth round- Earth debate, various things which the bible claims that we now know are not true from scientific studies into the natural history of life as we know it and the planet on which we actually live and issues such as slavery, patriarchy, misogyny and sometime just plain old, flat out contradictions in the Text).