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Atheist Dogmatism, Secular Fundamentalism, And The Value Of Mythology - Sam Harris @ Big Think (Part 4).

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1) Why I Criticize Religion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeblvLoVJCA
2) Modern Science vs. Religious Dogma:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvSljPf9on4
3) Why Do We Need Religion?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lu7OePVglE
4) Atheist Dogmatism And Secular Fundamentalism:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYHDVVxT1qk
5) The Legacy Of Faith:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2nK_qLmU8E
6) The Good, The Evil, And The Useful:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMn90aAaDg8
7) Relevance Of The Bible In The 21st Century:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgN5pAPTALc
8) Choosing The Right Religion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qM31FSXwlI
9) The Power Of Religious Beliefs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0wiswMZ7jk
10) Applying Pressure To People's Religious Beliefs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpZZ2PPBzP8

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Sam Harris is an author and commentator on philosophy and religion. He is the author of the bestsellers "The End of Faith", which won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction, and "Letter to A Christian Nation". Harris' writing has been published in over ten languages and has garnered attention from numerous media outlets and journals. Harris also makes regular appearances on television and radio to talk about the danger that religion now poses to modern societies. Harris was educated at Stanford University and is currently completing a doctorate in neuroscience.

This is a digital age, one in which a wealth of accessible information empowers you, but where is the information coming from? How accurate and unprocessed is it? How empowered do you feel debating a television screen or a newspaper? The task is to move the discussion away from talking heads and talking points, and give it back to you. That is Big Think's mission.

http://www.bigthink.com
http://www.youtube.com/bigthink
http://www.samharris.org
http://www.reasonproject.org
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  • @SBFlopple According to you I have the right to: murder, bully and steal as long as I'm not seen doing any of it (rights are those things we can do freely unless someone stops us). So if nobody stopped me I could do whatever I want?

  • @JamesSkuzz Actually, I very much DO have the right to judge my son, or anyone else I choose. Rights are those things we can do freely unless someone prevents us from doing them: life, speech, et cetera. You don't have the right to try to stop me from forming an opinion about someone's actions; you do have the right to dislike my doing so.

  • some great inforamtion here thanks

  • @SBFloppie "There is a degree of resistance to change among scientists"

    As there should be... HOWEVER, new evidence enhance and augment scientific theories and models ALL the time.  Science wouldn't be science if it wasn't flexible accommodating new discoveries and evidence. What exactly is your point?

  • @SBFloppie "human as the rest of us, and just as prone to pride (possible more so?) as the rest of us."

    Sure, scientists are human...however, the vast majority of scientists are as humble as they come constantly insisting that they might be wrong and focusing on evidence leaving interpretation of evidence to the scientific community as a whole. If anything, they have LESS pride than your average person.

  • At least we still have guys like Sam Harris now that Hitchens died...

  • I couldn´t love this more,I´m a taoist and think of it more as a spiritual and occultist philosophy but also think secularism and freedom of thinking should make up the basis of any society which claims itself to be progressive and truly humane,there´s no true goodness without secularism but only religious conceptions of it !

  • He says the same thing on every video. It's not groundbreaking stuff. At least Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins have some KNOWLEDGE in their brains.... (albeit mostly put to waste. Nonetheless.....)

  • big words are big.

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