The Ghost in the Universe received the Forkosch award from The Council for Secular Humanism, being named “outstanding secular humanist book of the year” for 2002.

Past awardees include:

• 1988: Arthur J. Strahler (geologist).
• 1989: Sidney Hook (philosopher).
• 1990: Stephen Jay Gould (biologist).
• 1991: Steve Allen (entertainer).
• 1994: Antony Flew (philosopher).
• 1997: Ibn Warraq (scholar of Islam).
• 1998: Kurt Baier (philosopher).
• 1999: Richard Dawkins (biologist).
• 2001: E.O. Wilson (biologist).

Note and photo from Truman Today.