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06-01-2009, 04:43 AM
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Re: SMP Video Collection
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God I love Astronomy Cast. A really great podcast.
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06-03-2009, 11:41 PM
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Re: SMP Video Collection
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lfTPTFN94o
Dawkins interviewing Dennett on evolution, really good
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06-04-2009, 06:59 AM
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Re: SMP Video Collection
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I'm only half way through it and its ****en amazing. I just searched this guy and found his homepage, and if you scroll down there are like 6 video links of his ... lectures etc.
http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/incbios...d/dennettd.htm
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06-04-2009, 07:29 AM
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Re: SMP Video Collection
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06-04-2009, 07:32 AM
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Re: SMP Video Collection
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06-04-2009, 07:48 PM
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Re: SMP Video Collection
I watched the debate just now. D'souza is very energetic and intense, while Dennet lets his arguments speak for themselves. D'souza painfully misapplies analogies and rephrased some of the tired theist arguments about how atheism causes more trouble than religion.
Further, he claimed that much of the religious fighting going on is not in the name of religion, but fighting over land. I'm very skeptical; even if some of the middle-eastern problems are physically over possession of land, the fact that such an area is considered "holy" would imply religious intent.
The two disagreed on whether religion is expanding or contracting, I'm inclined to believe Dennet as he was the one who first pointed it out, IIRC D'souza cited off the top of his head something like "75% of people in India are religious, that doesn't seem like contraction to me!"
Dennet's idea to teach religion in schools is genius, D'souza doesn't like it because he thinks there is an underlying atheist agenda there. Dennet proposes that we teach the history of religion from elementary school on up, nothing more than the facts of the history that can be agreed upon. D'souza explains the this isn't a good idea, but I honestly could not understand what he was talking about when he said he didn't like it. He really didn't say much more than "it's stupid", and then later said "I think it's a good idea, I just wouldn't want Dennet being in charge of it".
The questions at the end consisted of D'souza essentially dodging questions with poor analogies, while mentioning that Dawkins shouldn't claim things like religion evolve just because animals do. (I almost have a hard time believing he isn't a creationist with such a poor understanding of evolution) The one question directed at Dennet was "what if you're wrong?" in which he replied that while the scientific community asks this question regularly, the religious are in many cases encouraged to never consider it, for the stronger your faith is, the better.
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06-04-2009, 09:32 PM
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Re: SMP Video Collection
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Originally Posted by Ryanb9
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watch as much as of his online talks/lectures as possible, he has done a ton, 3-4 ted talks, they are all great. he is one of my favorite speakers/writers ever
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06-05-2009, 05:01 AM
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Re: SMP Video Collection
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Originally Posted by Scansion
Dennet's idea to teach religion in schools is genius, D'souza doesn't like it because he thinks there is an underlying atheist agenda there. Dennet proposes that we teach the history of religion from elementary school on up, nothing more than the facts of the history that can be agreed upon. D'souza explains the this isn't a good idea, but I honestly could not understand what he was talking about when he said he didn't like it. He really didn't say much more than "it's stupid", and then later said "I think it's a good idea, I just wouldn't want Dennet being in charge of it".
The questions at the end consisted of D'souza essentially dodging questions with poor analogies, while mentioning that Dawkins shouldn't claim things like religion evolve just because animals do. (I almost have a hard time believing he isn't a creationist with such a poor understanding of evolution) The one question directed at Dennet was "what if you're wrong?" in which he replied that while the scientific community asks this question regularly, the religious are in many cases encouraged to never consider it, for the stronger your faith is, the better.
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when he says 'which does imply that outsiders have a right to interfere' ... Maybe he goes into more detail in his book or from whatever source this is cited from, however my response is without this information.
I cant tell if I agree with this or not, but this made me think to what extent i would agree. I would agree that we could 'interfere' by means of social neglect, giving bad looks to this person, etc etc. However, unless the person is ... physically harming? his / her children by means of religion .. i don't think we should be able to interfere with the freedom of religion.
To what extent under what circumstances would you guys say would allow for what 'interferences'?
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06-05-2009, 09:49 PM
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Re: SMP Video Collection
Lenny Susskind on general relativity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbmf0bB38h0
EDIT: Actually, it starts off with standard gravity but there is a whole series of stuff. He starts off really from the beginning and he is a good lecturer.
Last edited by Max Raker; 06-05-2009 at 09:59 PM.
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06-06-2009, 04:58 AM
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Re: SMP Video Collection
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Originally Posted by Max Raker
Lenny Susskind on general relativity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbmf0bB38h0
EDIT: Actually, it starts off with standard gravity but there is a whole series of stuff. He starts off really from the beginning and he is a good lecturer. |
tytyty vm
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06-06-2009, 08:24 AM
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Re: SMP Video Collection
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06-06-2009, 05:03 PM
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Re: SMP Video Collection
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Originally Posted by Ryanb9
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Awesome. On the first video you can skip to about 17 min if you want, there is a bunch of talking about the program at the start.
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06-06-2009, 05:14 PM
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Re: SMP Video Collection
i don't remember which but i'm pretty sure dennett does one of those darwin's legacy lectures
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