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Believing the Unbelievable: The Clash Between Faith and Reason in the Modern World with Sam Harris speaking at the 2007 Aspen Ideas Festival.
Sam Harris is an American non-fiction author, and CEO of Project Reason. He received a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA, and is a graduate in philosophy from Stanford University. He has studied both Eastern and Western religious traditions, along with a variety of contemplative disciplines, for twenty years. He is a proponent of scientific skepticism and is the author of The End of Faith (2004), which won the 2005 PEN/Martha Albrand Award, Letter to a Christian Nation (2006), a rejoinder to criticism of his first book, and The Moral Landscape (2010).
Full speech, Q&A (an additional 20 minutes), live transcript, et al, are available properly from here: http://fora.tv/2007/07/04/Clash_Between_Faith_and_Reason#fullprogram
Copyright presumed to be Aspen Institute 2007
This is old but shows Harris at his early and very clear derogation of religious dogma and religious morality.
I have always appreciated listening to Harris and I certainly loved reading his books.
As he ages, he broadens and, at the same time, hones his arguments well. He is good, very good.
VeroniqueCG 4 months ago 6