Sam Harris - Misconceptions About Atheism

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2007/07/04/Clash_Between_Faith_and_Reason

Author Sam Harris addresses what he feels are several commonly-held misconceptions about atheism.

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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.

Some of the most inspired and provocative thinkers, writers, artists, business people, teachers and other leaders drawn from myriad fields and from across the country and around the world all gathered in a single place - to teach, speak, lead, question, and answer at the 2006 Aspen Ideas Festival. Throughout the week, they all interacted with an audience of thoughtful people who stepped back from their day-to-day routines to delve deeply into a world of ideas, thought, and discussion.

Sam Harris is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation. The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction.

Mr. Harris' writing has been published in over ten languages. He and his work have been discussed in Newsweek, TIME, U.S. News and World Report, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Chicago Tribune, The Economist, The Guardian, The Independent, The International Herald Tribune, Der Spiegel, The Globe and Mail, New Scientist, Wired, SEED Magazine, and many other journals.

Mr. Harris makes regular appearances on television and radio to talk about the danger that religion now poses to modern societies. His essays have appeared in Newsweek, The Los Angeles Times, The Times of London, The Boston Globe, and elsewhere. He blogs for the Washington Post / Newsweek website: On Faith, the Huffington Post, TruthDig, and Edge.org. Mr. Harris is a graduate in philosophy from Stanford University and has studied both Eastern and Western religious traditions, along with a variety of contemplative disciplines, for twenty years. He is completing a doctorate in neuroscience.

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[paramattic70]

@helptheherd Arguing with a Christian is like wrestling a pig. In the end, you're both covered in shit and the pig is still a pig.

[epicdeed]

I for one like the perspective that Athiests don't hold on to any belief. That itself is not a belief, it is NOT having a belief. Without evidence, why would we sign up to any superstition?

[GoalkeeperYilmaz]

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful, and has nobody to thank.--Dante Gabriel Rossetti

[ProfessorExpert]

@Helptheherd Nope. I'm an Athiest.

[Helptheherd]

@ProfessorExpert God is not demonstrated in a scientific experiment? are you a retard?

God bless

[ProfessorExpert]

@Helptheherd No, I said undemonstrated, which is correct.

[Helptheherd]

@ProfessorExpert demonstrated in what, a scientific experiment? God is not a scientific experiment- you have no clue what you are talking about

God bless

[ProfessorExpert]

@Helptheherd Atheism doesn't assert there is no God. Its a common miss-conception popularized by people that want to make it comparable to religious belief, to the end of discrediting it. Atheism is just the absence of belief in God.

Absence of belief in anything that is undemonstrated is perfectly rational and in-keeping with the scientific-method, hence mutual compatibility.

[Helptheherd]

@ProfessorExpert thats nonsense- saying that God does not exist is not a scientific statement

God bless

[ProfessorExpert]

@Helptheherd Mutual compatibility.

[Helptheherd]

@IncomingMonkeyTurd what does science have to do with atheism? lol

God bless