{"id":28981,"date":"2010-10-11T07:15:18","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T07:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/special-point-of-inquiry-pz-myers-jennifer-michael-hecht-yours-truly-the-intersection\/"},"modified":"2010-10-11T07:15:18","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T07:15:18","slug":"special-point-of-inquiry-pz-myers-jennifer-michael-hecht-yours-truly-the-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/special-point-of-inquiry-pz-myers-jennifer-michael-hecht-yours-truly-the-intersection.php","title":{"rendered":"Special Point of Inquiry: PZ Myers, Jennifer Michael Hecht, Yours Truly | The Intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve just put up an in-studio (so to speak) edition of Point of Inquiry<\/a>, which is a reprise of the “New Atheist\/accommodationist” debate that took place Friday in Los Angeles at the 30th anniversary Council for Secular Humanism Conference. Here’s the show description:<\/p>

Recently at the 30th anniversary conference of the Council for Secular Humanism in Los Angeles, leading science blogger PZ Myers and Point of Inquiry host Chris Mooney appeared together on a panel to discuss the questions, “How should secular humanists respond to science and religion? If we champion science, must we oppose faith? How best to approach flashpoints like evolution education?”<\/p>

It’s a subject about which they are known to… er, differ.<\/p>

The moderator was Jennifer Michael Hecht, the author of Doubt: A History<\/em>. The next day, the three reprised their public debate for a special episode of Point of Inquiry, with Hecht sitting in as a guest host in Mooney’s stead. <\/p>

This is the unedited cut of their three way conversation.<\/p>

PZ Myers is a biologist at the University of Minnesota-Morris who, in addition to his duties as a teacher of biology and especially of development and evolution, likes to spend his spare time poking at the follies of creationists, Christians, crystal-gazers, Muslims, right-wing politicians, apologists for religion, and anyone who doesn’t appreciate how much the beauty of reality exceeds that of ignorant myth.<\/p>

Jennifer Michael Hecht is the author of award-winning books of philosophy, history, and poetry, including: Doubt: A History<\/em> (HarperCollins, 2003); The End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Atheism and Anthropology<\/em> (Columbia University Press, 2003); and The Happiness Myth<\/em>, (HarperCollins in 2007). Her work appears in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic<\/em>, and The New Yorker<\/em>. Hecht earned her Ph.D. in History from Columbia University in 1995 and now teaches in the graduate writing program of The New School University.<\/p><\/blockquote>

Again, you can listen to the show here<\/a>.<\/p>

Why do I get the feeling this one will be popular?<\/p>

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