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The Forum’s year-long exploration of religion launches with a program featuring distinguished philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett and noted evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson.
They are joined by additional participants to discuss questions such as: What is the nature and purpose of religion? Is it a product of our evolution and something we can now do without? Is it a system of belief and practice that humans require in order to build communities and construct meaning for their lives? What in human make-up renders religion possible? How has religious belief developed and changed over the years, and how does it continue to do so?
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The true shit you monsters!
(Part1) At 22:16, Jon Haught is messing a bit with the contextual meaning of "because" in his layer explanation.
The way I see it:
"The fire is burning because of the chemistry of combustion" provides an objective explanation for the phenomenon and "The fire is burning because I'm having a picnic" provides a subjective reason why I lit the fire.
(Part2)
I think he is intentionally fucking around with those two contextual senses of the word "because" in order to produce a background in which science and religion could provide two non-conflicting explanations of the same problem.
I'm sorry but I have to call bullshit.
@tartamihai1 I agree, he is surely conflating the word "because". Logic it seems is not universal among adults, even educated ones.
If I say my car is turned on because I turned the key, then say the car was turned on because I need to go to work, then fine. But what religion does with it's claim is not like this. Man having a common ancestor with other animals is not in harmony with saying god man man, then the animals for him. It's just not.
Need more volume man. I can hardly hear it.
I wanted to make a comment before i watch this,
Firstly i think religion claims to have the answers to the following:
Is there a creator(s)?
is that creator conscious?
Dis that creator create life?
Did that creator consciously create life?
Is there a place where life goes once it ceases to be what we commonly know as life?
Science simply believes that religion has no evidence to back it conclusions so it seeks to answer these same questions.
You got to love Daniel Dennet!
Man, does that Haught guy ever shut up? He's okay as a speaker, although I disagree with a number of his points and (frankly) evasions. But I love hearing Dennett speak, and Wilson is justifiably famous. Why is the moderator favoring Haught so enormously? I'm forty minutes in and he's still carrying on with blah, blah, blah. Let the others speak!
Aleister Crowley, "In a true religion, there is no cult". Muhammed, "Too much organization leads to corruption". Crowley- True ritual is as much action as word, it is will. The love of money is the root of all evil. Behold, I send you forth as sheep amongst ravening wolves.
Haha, I love Dennett from 1:12:46 to 1:13:03. What a boss 🙂
I thought his opening answer to "What is Religion?" was one of the best I've heard in these debates. Dr. Dennett usually way surpasses his fellow debaters, but I thought this was really well rounded.
I've spent many hours listening to these kind of debates, and this one has some of the smartest panelists out of any of them. I love listening to Dr. Dennett, but it's refreshing to hear some smart and scientific counter-arguments.
what an ugly logo on the backdrop
Religion and farts, they're basically the same things.
Is there a transcript available for this talk?
A bunch of puppets that try to look smart!
Dennett is completely out of wack! How in the world have we gone beyond New Testament morality? Probably in the other direction. Today's world do not have any morality! He just makes statements without no proof! He is so ignorant of religion, like religion is 200 year old and people are fooled by the pastors! That sound like bigotry!