Best of Richard Feynman Arguments And Comebacks Part 1

Jerry Coyne - Why Evolution is True and Why Many People Still Don't Believe It

Interview:
https://youtu.be/ijhQczcVJbU

#232 Debate - Matt Dillahunty vs Cliffe Knechtle - Does God Exist - 2013

Interview:
https://youtu.be/coF5Ia8be4g

Faith vs. Fact

Since Galileo's lifetime house arrest in 1632 for his claim of a sun-centered solar system, the question has remained: are science and religion compatible? Evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne is unequivocal. "Absolutely not," he says. He discusses his book, "Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible."
Interview:
https://youtu.be/y6T39bz7A4w

Faith is Not a Virtue - Jerry Coyne TAM 2013

Interview:
https://youtu.be/MUJMzGrPX7M

American Freethought with Bart Ehrman

Professor Bart D. Ehrman joined the American Freethought Podcast, hosted by John C. Snider & David Driscoll whose studio is converged in Atlanta, as a guest speaker on March 1st, 2016. The purpose of American Freethought is to serve freethinkers of every stripe: atheists, agnostics, skeptics, secular humanists, brights, rationalists, or whatever association one might deem themselves. The hosts interviewed Bart D. Ehrman about his new book Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior. Dr. Ehrman looks at what research on memory–how it’s formed, how it’s recalled, how it can change when transmitted from person to person, and how it can be remolded based on historical perspective and current events–and what it can tell us about how the written accounts of Jesus’ life were created. Jesus Before the Gospels is available in hardcover, audiobook and for Kindle. For more about Dr. Ehrman’s work, visit bartdehrman.com.

Program discussed on Bart Ehrman's Foundation Blog: http://ehrmanblog.org/?p=10285

Bart D. Ehrman is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He came to UNC in 1988, after four years of teaching at Rutgers University. At UNC he has served as both the Director of Graduate Studies and the Chair of the Department of Religious Studies. A graduate of Wheaton College (Illinois), Professor Ehrman received both his Masters of Divinity and Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary, where his 1985 doctoral dissertation was awarded magna cum laude.
Interview:
https://youtu.be/7wiSIXi5Uvo

Study Confirms World’s Coastal Cities Unsavable If We Don’t Slash Carbon Pollution

This latest research from the journal Nature underscores that what the nation and the world do in the next decade or two will determine whether or not cities like Miami, Boston, New York, or New Orleans have any plausible chance to survive by 2100...
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/03/31/3765266/coastal-cites-carbon-pollution/

ACSJ Presents Professor Sheldon W. Helms: Gay Conversion Therapy

Sheldon will be speaking on the topic of Gay Conversion Therapy, providing us with a brief history of the efforts to alter people’s sexual orientation both through religion and therapy, some evidence of the potential risks these processes pose to victims, as well as an overview of the problem in the social, legal, and political domains. Sheldon Helms is a Professor of Experimental Psychology at Ohlone College in Fremont, CA where he serves as senior faculty member in the psychology department. He holds a master’s degree in psychology, and is currently a doctoral candidate in the School of Education at Alliant International University...
https://youtu.be/1llnklBbfuE

Recycling sunlight: a solar cell revolution? - CSMonitor.com

Scientists have found a way to recycle sunlight and boost the amount of energy captured from the sun's rays.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2016/0324/Recycling-sunlight-a-solar-cell-revolution

Researchers Discover a Crazy-Simple Way for Kids to Fight Obesity, and It's Not About Eating Less

A new study shows that making water fountains more available in schools can help children keep the pounds off...
http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/researchers-discover-crazy-simple-way-kids-fight-obesity-and-its-not-about-eating

Before You Judge Lazy Workers, Consider They Might Serve A Purpose

In the short term, lazy ants are inefficient, but in the long term, they are not...
http://www.npr.org/2016/03/28/468138647/before-you-judge-lazy-workers-consider-they-might-serve-a-purpose

And Now the Good News #182: 3/29/2016

Learn more about the stories featured in this video at the following sources:
 “Sleep Tight, Fruit Fly – New Gene Identified” http://goo.gl/Etmbb4
 “New Catalyst is Three Times Better at Splitting Water” https://goo.gl/KDvsLT
 “New Findings in Humans Provide Encouraging Foundation for Upcoming AIDS Vaccine Clinical Trial” https://goo.gl/o88wjc
Interview:
https://youtu.be/gJGKFh9X2wM

Bizarre cavefish can walk like a four-legged land-dwelling creature

The discovery of the bizarre cavefish in Thailand could help scientists better understand the evolution of land-walking animals...
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0325/Bizarre-cavefish-can-walk-like-a-four-legged-land-dwelling-creature

Lawrence Krauss Explains Gravity Waves (Penn Jillette, Penn's Sunday School)

*** Explicit Language ***
Family, the death of Antonin Scalia, and Lawrence Krauss tells us about gravity waves. (Krauss's talk begins at 1:04:00.)
Interview:
http://www.podcastone.com/pg/jsp/program/episode.jsp?programID=336&pid=100600732

#226 Debate - Massimo Pigliucci vs William Lane Craig - Does The Christian God Exist - 2001

Interview:
https://youtu.be/N5sCQIt-ARA

And Now the Good News #181: 3/22/2016

https://youtu.be/l_DDq4TRZNQ

"The Laws of Physics Can't Be Violated, Except When They Can": AronRa v Dutko

https://youtu.be/RAe5T_VZzG8

The Team That Found Gravitational Waves (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

First word came last week from the National Science Foundation, telling the world to stand by for a major scientific announcement. Not many get a drum roll like that. And then it came: word of the first direct evidence of gravitational waves in the universe. All around us. Ripples in space and time posited by Albert Einstein a century ago. Signals – chirps – of a beat to the cosmos. What does it mean? This hour On Point, we go to the team that opened up the universe of gravitational waves. — Tom Ashbrook
Interview:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2016/02/15/gravitational-waves-einstein-black-holes

Americans Take Global Warming More Seriously Now Than They Have In 8 Years

“I think the unseasonably warm winter has a lot to do with this [change], because people were able to experience first-hand global warming,” said Feinberg, adding that all the attention around the Paris agreement also influenced people’s opinion...
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/03/18/3761720/climate-change-worries-increase/

February Didn't Just Break Climate Change Records – It Totally Obliterated Them

We are currently swamping the Earth’s ability to absorb greenhouse gases. And it just keeps getting dramatically worse...
http://www.alternet.org/environment/february-didnt-just-break-climate-change-records-it-totally-obliterated-them