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Sam Harris Discusses Liberal Weakness in the Age of Terror
2008-05-07 00:00:00 Charles Johnson pointed out the terrific piece by Sam Harris on radical Islam that was posted at Huffington Post after the Washington Post found it to be too offensive.Here are a couple of the offensive lines:The position of the Muslim community in the face of all provocations seems to be: ...
By: Pakistan News
2 Hours with Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Dan Dennett and Christopher Hitch
2008-02-28 14:43:00 This is not very new (it’s from December 2007), but I only found the time today to watch it, and I found it intellectually delicious. Four brilliant minds (who don’t agree in many ways) having a fascinating (and polite!) discussion about religion and atheism. Please, watch it. Really. Just click on the image above. I ...
By: Way of the Mind
Sam Harris: It?s not about atheism, it?s about reason and genuine respect f
2008-02-15 21:26:00 Having just watched the recent Sam Harris + Rabbi David Wolpe debate on the existence of God, I was reminded of Sam Harris’ very important and agreeable position that a big part of the cultural struggle being fought be secularists should not be about atheism specifically, but about reason generally. Now, the subject of religion ...
Sam Harris et al on the neurology of belief, disbelief and uncertainty
2008-01-03 03:20:00 In a paper recently published in the Annals of Neurology, Sam Harris, Mark Cohen, and Sameer Sheth measured the brain activity of subjects as they evaluated propositions as being either true or false, or declaring uncertainty. Harris et al found different patterns of brain activation across the three judgments. This isn’t really shocking. As discussed in ...
The Four Horsemen - Hour 1
2007-12-16 11:57:00 RichardDawkins.net has recently posted a literal roundtable discussion of Atheism with Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel C. Dennet, and Christopher Hitchens. So essentially you have the four most popular Atheist writers today discussing the reception of their books and how the non-atheist has generally reacted to their argument. A very interesting two hour conversation and there ...
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A Must-Read for Filipinos: Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris
2007-09-30 13:00:00 Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. ? St Francis of Assisi In a country where the devil wears condoms and the morning-after pill Postinor is illegal, I was surprised to find that the book, Letter to ... [ This is a content summary only. Visit PinoyBlogoSphere.com for full links, other content, and more! ]
Sam Harris - The Clash Between Faith and Reason in the Modern World
2007-07-13 12:42:00 Sam recently spoke at the Aspen Institute, at their third annual Ideas Festival. There aren’t any short clips, but you can download the full one hour talk here. He made many of the same points as in his earlier Idea City presentation, but there are a few nice gems in there. “They (religions) can’t all be true, ...
Arguments Against Arguments for Atheism: The Views of Sam Harris
2007-07-05 21:17:00 An article refuting many of the claims made by Sam Harris in his books The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reasonand Letter to a Christian Nationcan be found in the latest edition of Biola Connections, the alumni magazine of Biola University. The article, with contributions by Christian scholars Douglas Geivett and ...
By: Prudent Musings
Sam Harris vs. Rick Warren
2007-04-03 15:39:00 By Mimi Rothschild In one corner we have the it-boy of evangelical Christendom, Rick Warren. Pastor of the 25,000-strong Saddleback mega-church, Warren is certainly a force to be reckoned with. In the other corner, Sam Harris, prominent atheist author and student of neuroscience. When these two power-players square off, it is bound to be interesting. I’m disappointed in ... |
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