AS265: A Defense of Evolutionary Psychology

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🗓️ 8 August 2016

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Some time ago, I had Richard Carrier on to discuss an article he wrote that harshly criticized Evolutionary Psychology as a pseudo-science. Well, at long last, we now get a chance to hear from the other side! Joining me is someone with deep knowledge of the field. A listener named Lindsey! She shares her credentials in … Continue reading AS265: A Defense of Evolutionary Psychology →

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0:00.0	You're listening to, atheistically speaking. I'm your host Thomas Smith. and I'm
0:34.0	your host Thomas Smith.
0:35.0	I got a great interview for you this week.
0:38.0	So here's what happened. You may recall something like six months ago.
0:42.0	I had Richard carrier on to discuss his
0:46.9	article he wrote about why Evo psych is 90% nonsense and at the time I said I wanted to hear from anyone from the other side. I didn't really
0:56.5	get any good offers or takers on that until now. So this is really cool. I've got Lindsay on to make the case for Evosec.
1:07.0	She emailed me and it was really good detailed email about how she's an expert in the field, she thinks this and this and this, and I just
1:15.5	wanted to let you know.
1:17.4	Anyone who emails me like that, like I'm definitely open to having you on the show.
1:21.8	Now I do get emails from time to time they're just like
1:23.8	hey I'm a cool person put me on your show. It's like no I need there's got to be there's
1:30.7	got to be a reason you've got to have a topic or a view or something that really demands that we do an episode on it like this because I really have wanted to fairly represent these arguments and it's taken until now to get someone of the
1:45.5	other side on. So I'm really excited to have her. With that, let's get over to the
1:49.5	interview. Joining me right now is Lindsay.
2:00.0	Joining me right now is Lindsay.
2:02.0	How you doing Lindsay?
2:03.2	I'm doing well Thomas, how are you?
2:05.2	I'm doing okay and I'm so excited because you emailed me on a topic from a long time ago actually.
2:13.2	I guess it wasn't like a million years ago.
2:15.7	So episode 2002, I think it was.
2:18.8	And we're on episode something or other now.
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