Talking Global Warming, Gender Fluidity, and Group Think with Jay Richards

Hank Unplugged: Essential Christian Conversations

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Education, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 809 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2017

⏱️ 66 minutes

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This week, Hank is joined on Hank Unplugged by New York Times best-selling author Jay Richards. Jay is a true Renaissance man academically, and their conversation exemplifies that as they touch on a wide range of topics such as global warming, gender identity, consensus science, economics, the Eucharist, and much more.

Topics discussed include: the right questions to ask about global warming (2:30); does Al Gore really believe his own rhetoric? (9:30); illiberal liberalism on college campuses and the culture at large (12:00); the gender identity movement’s war on natural law’s of science (17:30); the consequences of going against the cultural narrative as shown by astrophysicist and Intelligent Design advocate Guillermo Gonzalez (23:30); our Earth as “The Privileged Planet” (27:00); taking materialist claims to their logical conclusion (31:00); how to think about celebrity scientists like Bill Nye and Neil Degrasse Tyson (38:00); consensus science or group think? (40:00); Millennial views on capitalism and socialism (44:00); Jay’s book on “The Vision of Freedom That Tolkien Got and the West Forgot” called The Hobbit Party (52:30); the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist; and the importance of having an eternal perspective (57:00).

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1:22.0	I love doing podcasts.
1:26.1	I've been doing broadcast now for almost 30 years,
1:37.8	but podcasts seem to be a whole lot more fun because I have an opportunity to talk to people that I respect and love and appreciate people that I like to hang out with.
1:49.5	But these are some of the brightest people on the planet, bar none. And today's hank unplugged episode is no exception i have the opportunity to talk to j richards he's a senior fellow at the discovery institute
1:56.6	he's a senior fellow at the center for science and culture he's a senior fellow at the Center for Science and Culture.
2:01.6	He's a senior fellow at the Center on Wealth, Poverty, and Morality.
2:07.6	He's the author of many books, including the New York Times bestsellers,
2:13.6	Infiltrated and Indivisible, as well as one of my favorite books. I mean, I must have gone through this book
2:20.4	at least two, three times. And then I pick it up sometime later, and I give it to people. This is a book
2:28.0	everybody should read, Money, Greed, and God. It was the winner of the 2010 Templeton Enterprise Award. Some of the other projects Jay has
2:38.7	been involved in that everybody ought to be involved in is the privileged planet. How our place
2:44.9	in the cosmos is designed for discovery. Jay has a PhD with honors in philosophy and theology from Princeton
2:53.7	Theological Seminary, but, you know, to me, he's a regular guy. You know, think about all the
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