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 Naruwan rated 19 months ago - "According to a survey by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life in a recent issue of Foreign Policy magazine, "God is Winning". Religions are increasingly a geopolitical force to be reckoned with. Fundamentalist movements - some violent in the extreme - are growing. Science and ...
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- HenkPoley rated 11 months ago
- Very interesting presentations about religion available in video format.
- Lost-Child rated 15 months ago
- SCIENCE, RELIGION, REASON AND SURVIVAL
- wcshields rated 22 months ago
- Compelling clips featuring scientific debate about science and religion
- tbc rated 23 months ago
- HT: edge.org.
- Naruwan rated 19 months ago
- "According to a survey by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life in a recent issue of Foreign Policy magazine, "God is Winning". Religions are increasingly a geopolitical force to be reckoned with. Fundamentalist movements - some violent in the extreme - are growing. Science and religion are at odds in the classrooms and courtrooms. And a return to religious values is widely touted as an antidote to the alleged decline in public morality. After two centuries, could this be twilight for the Enlightenment project and the beginning of a new age of unreason? Will faith and dogma trump rational inquiry, or will it be possible to reconcile religious and scientific worldviews? Can evolutionary biology, anthropology and neuroscience help us to better understand how we construct beliefs, and experience empathy, fear and awe? Can science help us create a new rational narrative as poetic and powerful as those that have traditionally sustained societies? Can we treat religion as a natural phenomenon? Can we be good without God? And if not God, then what?
This is a critical moment in the human situation, and The Science Network in association with the Crick-Jacobs Center brought together an extraordinary group of scientists and philosophers to explore answers to these questions."
- spectrekitty rated 21 months ago
- Interesting short vids on this website. I especially enjoyed the statement by Steven Weinberg, who compares religion to a crazy old aunt that tells lies & stirs up mischief, "but she was beautiful once, and when she's gone,
we may miss her." Great stuff!Thanks to CLains for the link.
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