A thought provoking night with Sam Harris’ Godless Goodness

Think about it — By Ryan on May 19, 2010 1:49 am

I have the good fortune of being motivated to finish up a very mundane and repetitive task tonight which means my brain is free to listen to something thought provoking while I work for a change.  Tonight that happened to be Sam Harris, so I just had to share.

Sam Harris: Science can answer moral questions

Questions of good and evil, right and wrong are commonly thought unanswerable by science. But Sam Harris argues that science can — and should — be an authority on moral issues, shaping human values and setting out what constitutes a good life.

Sam Harris at Idea CIty ’05

Speaking at the TED of Canada, Sam Harris has a solo talk at Toronto’s Idea City 2005

Reza Aslan vs. Sam Harris Debate

This was hosted on Cspan2′s Book TV in 2007.  It wasn’t the same caliber of discourse that was found in the Chris Hedges vs Sam Harris debate for Truthdig but it still offers some great food for thought.  I found it particularly interested in the last portion of it that Sam says that the underlying problem with the middle east is Tribalism, not religion which is the main moot point that Chris Hedges has with Harris during the Truthdig debate.

Atheism – Sam Harris “Believing the unbelievable”

The Four Horsemen HD: Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens

On the 30th of September 2007, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens sat down for an unmoderated 2-hour discussion, convened by The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science and filmed by Josh Timonen. In this conversation the group trades stories of the public’s reaction to their recent books, their unexpected successes, criticisms and common misrepresentations. They discuss the tough questions about religion that face the world today and propose new strategies for going forward.

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