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Stuart Vyse — The Uses of Delusion: Why It’s Not Always Rational to Be Rational

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Nature’s God: Why Christians Should Accept the Theory of Evolution

American Christian fundamentalists reject Darwinian evolution for at least two reasons. The first is their belief that the Bible has revealed a clear teaching about the divine creation of the world...

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Michael Strevens — The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern...

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/sciencesalon/mss283_Michael_Strevens_2022_04_27.mp3 Download MP3 If is science so powerful why did it take so long — two thousand years after the invention of...

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Yoram Hazony on Traditional Conservatism vs. Enlightenment Liberalism

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/sciencesalon/mss284_Yoram_Hazony_2022_05_31.mp3 Download MP3 In this conversation based on his new book, political theorist Yoram Hazony argues that the best hope for...

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Bobby Azarian — Life, the Universe, and Cosmic Complexity

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/sciencesalon/mss287_Bobby_Azarian_2022_06_24.mp3 Download MP3 In this conversation based on his new book, The Romance of Reality, cognitive neuroscientist Bobby...

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Marian Tupy & Gale Pooley — Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth,...

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/sciencesalon/mss295_Tupy_Pooley_2022_08_19.mp3 Download MP3 Shermer, Tupy, and Pooley discuss: Why do we long for the “good ol’ days” and some “golden age” past? the...

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Holy Relics, Holy Places, Wholly Fiction

I recently watched a television show alleging the fascination Hitler, Himmler, and the Nazis had for certain holy relics and their desire to possess them. Among these were the Ark of the Covenant,...

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Anti-Abortion: The Case for Life

Abortion is one of the most relevant issues of our time. As with many other subjects capable of arousing strong emotion, people tend to assume that the U.S. public is evenly divided, in this case...

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Meta Ethics: Toward a Universal Ethics — How Science & Reason Can Give Us...

William Lane Craig is one of the world’s foremost Christian apologists. He has presented this wellknown argument for the existence of God: If God does not exist, objective moral values do not exist....

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Why Nations Are Becoming More Secular

Jens is in his late sixties. He lives in a cozy house on a quiet street in a mid-sized city on the east coast of Jutland, Denmark. He’s many things: a widower, a lover of art and music, a retired radio...

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Paradoxes of Religion and Science in the USA

Science and religion present two paradoxes in the United States. On the one hand, the U.S. is the undisputed world leader in science. Yet, the U.S. is also the wealthy industrialized country with the...

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Elle Hardy — Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over the...

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Marc Schulz — The Good Life: Lessons from the World’s Longest Scientific...

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/sciencesalon/mss329_Marc_Schulz_2023_01_31.mp3 Download MP3 Marc Schulz is the associate director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development and the Sue Kardas PhD 1971...

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Why Nationalism Is Hostile to America

America is being torn apart. Amid growing strife, many people are experiencing angst concerning the future of this country, a country once renowned for its exuberant spirit of discovery, progress,...

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Jim Davies — How to Be a Better Person

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The Christian Nationalist Threat Gets Real

What are we to make of the fact that a number of far-right politicians and activists, such as Marjorie Taylor Greene, the U.S. Representative from Georgia, and Andrew Torba, the founder and CEO of Gab,...

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Baptism by Fire: How Christian Violence Abetted the Advent of Nationalism

In the year 390, the Roman Emperor Theodosius strode up the steps of a Cathedral in Milan, Italy. His entry into the church was interrupted by the Bishop of Milan, St. Ambrose. Theodosius carried with...

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The End of the World: Bart Ehrman on What the Bible Really Says About the End

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/sciencesalon/mss334_Bart_Ehrman_2023_02_14.mp3 Download MP3 Shermer and Ehrman discuss: Ehrman’s religious journey Who wrote the Bible and why? how to read the Bible...

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The Sacred Depths of Nature — Ursula Goodenough on How to Find Sacred...

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/sciencesalon/mss336_Ursula_Goodenough_2023_03_14.mp3 Download MP3 For many of us, the great scientific discoveries of the modern age — the Big Bang, evolution,...

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Matt Johnson — How Hitchens Can Save the Left: Rediscovering Fearless...

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Gad Saad — The Saad Truth About Happiness

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/sciencesalon/mss365_Gad_Saad_2023_07_18.mp3 Download MP3 Everyone wants to be happy. The question “How can I be happy?” drives countless decisions across the world,...

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Eddie Tabash — The Law vs. Separation of Church and State

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/sciencesalon/mss372_Eddie_Tabash_2023_07_19.mp3 Download MP3 Eddie Tabash is a constitutional lawyer in Los Angeles. He graduated magna cum laude from UCLA in 1973....

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Matthew Dallek — How the American Right Became Radicalized

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/sciencesalon/mss375_Matt_Dallek_2023_07_20.mp3 Download MP3 At the height of the John Birch Society’s activity in the 1960s, critics dismissed its members as a...

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Daniel Dennett Looks Back on His Career

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/sciencesalon/mss376_Dan_Dennett_2023_10_02.mp3 Download MP3 Preeminent philosopher and cognitive scientist, Daniel Dennett has spent his career considering the...

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Dannagal Young — How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for...

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/sciencesalon/mss390_Dannagal_Young_2023_09_27.mp3 Download MP3 Why are so many of us wrong about so much? From COVID-19 to climate change to the results of elections,...

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A Skeptical View of J. Edgar Hoover & the FBI

“Hoover’s strengths lay not in any great instinct for media manipulation or press management, but in the areas that had always served him well: the ability to learn quickly, to adapt to new...

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Philip Goff — The Purpose of the Universe

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Andrew Shtulman — Learning to Imagine: The Science of Discovering New...

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/sciencesalon/mss393_Andrew_Shtulman_2023_10_10.mp3 Download MP3 Imagination is commonly thought to be the special province of youth―the natural companion of free play...

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Caylan Ford — Good and Evil, Human Nature, Education Reform, and Cancel Culture

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/sciencesalon/mss395_Caylan_Ford_2023_11_16.mp3 Download MP3 Caylan Ford is a documentary filmmaker, writer, researcher, charter school founder, and a former political...

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Richard Nisbett on Thinking & Reason

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/sciencesalon/mss227_Richard_Nisbett_2021_10_15.mp3 Download MP3 In this wide-ranging conversation Shermer and Nisbett discuss Nisbett’s research showing how people...

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