During Richard Dawkins' American tour in March 2009, he gave a talk titled "The Purpose of Purpose". I travelled with Richard to these cities and filmed the talks, which I've edited together here. The content of the talk remains intact, while the editing moves between the different locations and Richard's Keynote presentation. (From Richard Dawkins.net via Atheist Media Blog).
Matt has an amazing knowledge of the bible and is a great advocate for atheism. This video is of his talk at the February ACA lecture series. Through demonstrating some mentalist tricks, Matt explains how people can be psychologically manipulated.
How Psychology evolves to change our perception of the world.
It's not that the external stimuli evolved to become attractive to us, it's that our perception of stimuli witch are beneficial to us has been made gradually more favorable over time until we got to where we now are.
He has finally got around to uploading my favourite series "Growing up in the Universe". It is a collection of videos that explore basic important concepts in science, and it was from this lecture series that "Climbing Mount Improbable" was written.
If you haven't seen it already, it is definitely worth checking out.
There are 5 one hour videos, so clear your schedule and enjoy!
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Russell Glasser of the ACA recently presented a lecture entitled "How atheists can be effective evangelists". I would recommend reading his slide show to anybody wanting to know more about becoming a vocal atheist. It is very well presented and makes a lot of good points about why you would evangelise, how to evangelise and how not to be a jerk about it.
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