Hello, Hello everybody. I had the opportunity today to talk to the philosopher

Daniel Dennett who along with Sam Harris and Christopher

Hitchins and Richard Dawkins is probably perhaps best known to the world as one of the four horsemen of the an atheist movement that was being so influential over the last 20 years and as many of you know I've had

many discussions with Sam Harris and a couple of discussions with Richard Dawkins, another

one hypothetically forthcoming and it occurred to me a couple of weeks ago that I hadn't

spoken with Dr. Daniel Dennett and I felt that that would be enlightening and necessary. And so today we talked about his understanding

of the relationship between science and morality,

the relationship between morality and the secular and the

relationship between morality, the secular and the religious.

And we exchanged our views about how those different systems of

apprehension and conception might be interrelated and

talked about the difficulties in both discussing and reconciling the scientific and religious views.

Dr. Dennett's viewpoint is that the religious viewpoint

has been superseded, fundamentally, that it might have been a necessary precondition for civilized development, but that it's been superseded.

And we got a long ways in that discussion, not to the end and for obvious reasons, but welcome

to the exchange.

So Dr. Dennett, and I will call you, Dan,

I'm very interested in talking to you about your ideas about religious belief and practice.

And you may know that I've talked to some of the people who you've been intellectually associated with.

I've had two discussions with Richard Dawkins, and I think we're planning a third if

if the information I'm getting is correct and I've spoken with Sam Harris a number of

times and I think we we share a lot of interests you and I and one of them is a very deep interest I would say and I was

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