Sam Harris: ‘The Separation Between Science and Human Values Is an Illusion’
We were a little slow on the uptake when it came to finding this TED talk that author and Truthdig contributor Sam Harris gave this past winter, but it's definitely worth a belated look, or even a second look, as the case may be.We were a little slow on the uptake when it came to finding this TED talk that author and Truthdig contributor Sam Harris gave this past winter, but it’s definitely worth a belated look, or even a second look, as the case may be.
Harris, who wrote “An Atheist Manifesto” and “Letter to a Christian Nation,” defends science’s usefulness in helping us answer the biggest questions about “what constitutes a good life” in his usual thought-provoking style in this presentation, recorded in February. –KA
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