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POPSPoint of Inquiry podcasts
Point of Inquiry is the premiere podcast of the Center for Inquiry, drawing on CFI’s relationship with the leading minds of the day including Nobel Prize-winning scientists, public intellectuals, social critics and thinkers, and renowned entertainers. Each episode combines incisive interviews, features and commentary focusing on CFI’s issues: religion, human values and the borderlands of science. Point of Inquiry explores CFI’s three research areas: 1. Pseudoscience and the paranormal (Bigfoot, UFOs, psychics, communication with the dead, cryptozoology, etc.) 2. Alternative medicine (faith healing, homeopathy, “healing touch,” the efficacy of prayer, etc.) 3. Religion and secularism (church-state separation, the effects and proper role of religion in society, the future of secularism and nonbelief, etc.) Contributors to Point of Inquiry include Lauren Becker, Paul Kurtz, Benjamin Radford, Dawkins, Sam Harris, Joe Nickell, Barry Karr, Tom Flynn, David Koepsell, and many m
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POPSThe Problem with Atheism How true! religions are such a huge problem but atheism is not the appropriate counter strategy, Up-wing Transhumanism can fill in very well. it is the nature of Homo Sapiens that most individuals are always susceptible to magical thinking and always need to believe in a cosmic caretaker -n punisher- and the post-scarcity utopia called heaven in the afterlife. Transhumanism, Futurism and Evolutionary Spirituality equip us with just the right weapons to tame the beast. It is essentially Humanistic and promises a bountiful scarcity-free future right here, in this universe! All religions are based on One basic assumption, "Humans are the ultimate creation", whereas in futurist circles humans are long been viewed as only intellectual primates. Accepting Evolutionary Spirituality opens the doors for wondering about the future and working forward to make it happen. Its a really paradigm shifting realization that we are not the end result of evolution, the process is still on...
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