Rationally Speaking #130 - The Atheists Own 10 Commandments

Rationally Speaking Podcast

New York City Skeptics

Society & Culture, Skepticism, Science, Philosophy

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🗓️ 22 March 2015

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Do atheists need their own 10 commandments? What would such a thing look like? In this episode, Julia and Massimo discuss a recent attempt to define some secular commandments. They debate the relevance of particular commandments, like "All truth is proportional to the evidence," and the purpose of the project overall, and address some criticism of the commandments.

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0:00.0	Hey there, rationally speaking listeners. Get your tickets today for the seventh annual nexus,
0:05.6	that's the Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism, being held in New York City this April 9th through 12th.
0:12.1	The keynote is Bill Nye. He'll also be a guest star on The Skeptics Guide to the Universe's
0:17.1	Skeptical Extravaganza, a two-hour stage show being held on the evening of April 10th.
0:22.1	We've got lots of other great speakers and panels lined up for the rest of the weekend,
0:27.0	not to mention a live taping of the Rationally Speaking podcast.
0:31.0	This one will be a particularly special and bittersweet episode of Rationally Speaking
0:35.2	because it'll be the last episode for which
0:37.8	Massimo will be co-hosting with me. So we're going to send him off with a bang.
0:42.7	Hope to see you there. Get your tickets today at www.nexas.org. That's n-c-s-s-s-s-s-S-S-org. See you there.
1:13.7	Rationally speaking is a presentation of New York City skeptics dedicated to promoting critical thinking, skeptical inquiry, and science education.
1:17.8	For more information, please visit us at NYC Skeptics.org.
1:32.0	Welcome to rationally speaking, the podcast where we explore the borderlands between reason and nonsense.
1:37.2	I am your host, Massimo Pilucci, and with me as always is my co-host, Julia Galev.
1:39.3	Julia, what are we going to talk about today?
1:45.4	Massimo, our topic today is the new Ten Commandments for atheists.
1:46.9	Oh, good.
1:48.4	Yes, very exciting. This is a project that was launched by John Figgore and Lex Bayer.
1:55.4	I'm not sure if I'm pronouncing his name correctly, but they're the authors of a new book called Atheist Mind, Humanist Heart,
2:02.4	rewriting the Ten Commandments for the 21st Century. So they came up with their sort of what they
2:08.0	called their first stab at our first draft of 10 commandments for how to live, how to
2:15.1	foster a good society or a good world or good future and how to be happy,
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