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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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 Posted - 12/06/2008 : 23:29:47
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After listening to this Skepticality episode, I'd like to hear about what our members would say.
If you were asked to give a talk to a skeptic group, what would be the subject of your speech?
Right now, if it were me, I think it'd be a talk on the ethics of belief. Evidentialism as a moral code.
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dglas
Skeptic Friend
Canada
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Posted - 12/07/2008 : 00:57:01 [Permalink]
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Limiting the scope of inquiry. Trying to turn skepticism into dogma.
...or maybe...
Hidden normative content. Historical constraints on skeptical discourse.
...or maybe...
Reclaiming our Humanity. How dogma turns humans into cogs in a machine.
...or maybe...
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
4955 Posts |
Posted - 12/07/2008 : 06:39:00 [Permalink]
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| I'd give mine on the Bible, with the thrust of "there's certainly a lot of stuff in the Bible's that's true; just not stuff that should compel a person to believe in the truth of Yahweh" or something. |
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 12/07/2008 : 21:11:34 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Cuneiformist
I'd give mine on the Bible, with the thrust of "there's certainly a lot of stuff in the Bible's that's true; just not stuff that should compel a person to believe in the truth of Yahweh" or something.
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Yep, the Bible is a great subject.
The influence of Babylonian mythology, the progressive switch from polytheism to monotheism as paralleled by the Assyrian religion...
Depending of the level of the skeptics, an introduction to the theory of evolution and a debunking of the most common cretintionist/IDiots arguments...
While we are on the subject of religion, debunking of the myth of the US being funded on Christian principles.
What else?
A funny conspiracy theory is always good or a bit of pseudo-history (Mitchell-hedges is good fun). |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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What would you say?
