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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe - Podcast 246 - 3/31/2010
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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe is produced by SGU Productions, LLC - dedicated to promoting critical thinking, reason, and the public understanding of science through online and other media. The first episode of the SGU podcast went online on May 4th, 2005. It soon became a popular science/skeptical podcast, and remains one of the most popular science podcasts on iTunes.
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Podcast
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March 31, 2010
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Special Guest: Eugenie Scott
News Items: Update from the NCSE, Fighting Cancer with Nanoparticles, Prison Psychics, Changing Morality with Magnets
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Skeptics and Atheists
Science or Fiction
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Segment: News Items
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Segment: Who's That Noisy
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Who's That Noisy
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Answer to last week: Julius Sumner Miller
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Segment: Questions and E-mails
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Question # 1 - Skeptics and Atheists
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Question #3 –
The Sacred Cow of Atheism
Message: Hello,
I was inspired by Bill's email last week to ask something that has been really bugging me. I love your show and I have been listening for the last two years. Something that comes up over and over and I
don't think I have heard it addressed is how the skeptical movement is somehow married to atheism (this opinion comes from the numerous guests and conversations you have had on the show). Atheism is an actual belief in something that has no proof. This doesn't seem internally consistent with a skeptical outlook. It would seem to me being agnostic would be the natural outflow of being a skeptic, but this in general does not seem to be the case (yes I have a limited sampling size:). I think this is a major aspect of the movement that inhibits its growth and acceptance. I'm sure you guys have thought through this and I would love to hear this discussed. Do you guys think it damages the movement's ability to reach people? Is it internally consistent with skepticism, if so how
Mike
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Segment: Science or Fiction [ Click Here to Show the Answers ]
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Segment: Quote of the Week
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Quote of the Week
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"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection."
- Jules Henri Poincare
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