Colton’s Memorizations

Critically-acclaimed author and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and world-renowned theoretical physicist and author Lawrence Krauss  discuss biology, cosmology, religion, and a host of other topics at this event entitled 'Something for Nothing'. This video was recorded at The Australian National University on 10 April 2012.  Richard Dawkins FRS is the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford. Born in British colonial Africa, he was educated in England, where he now lives. He did his doctorate at Oxford under the Nobel Prize winning zoologist Niko Tinbergen, then was briefly an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1967 to 1969, after which he returned to Oxford, first as a Lecturer in Zoology, then Reader, before being elected to his present professorship.  He is the author of nine books: The Selfish Gene (1976, 2nd Ed 1989), The Extended Phenotype (1982), The Blind Watchmaker (1986), River Out of Eden (1995), Climbing Mount Improbable (1996), Unweaving the Rainbow (1998), A Devil's Chaplain (2003), The Ancestor's Tale (2004) and The God Delusion (2006). The God Delusion has sold more than two million copies in English, and is being published in 30 other languages. Dawkins is now editing an anthology of scientific writing for Oxford University Press, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing. In 2006, to promote the values of education, science, and critical thinking skills, he established The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science (RDFRS) which is now a registered charity in both the UK and USA.  Richard Dawkins has Honorary Doctorates of Literature as well as Science, and is a Fellow of both the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Literature. He has been awarded the Silver Medal of the Zoological Society of London, the Michael Faraday Award of the Royal Society, the Nakayama Prize, the Cosmos International Prize, the Kistler Prize, the Shakespeare Prize and the Lewis Thomas Prize.  Lawrence M. Krauss is a renowned cosmologist and science populariser, and is Foundation Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration, and director of the Origins Project at Arizona State University. Hailed by Scientific American as a rare public intellectual, he is also the author of more than three hundred scientific publications and nine books, including the international bestseller, The Physics of Star Trek, and his most recent bestseller entitled A Universe from Nothing.  He received his PhD from MIT in 1982 and then joined the Society of Fellows at Harvard, and was a professor at Yale University and Chair of the Physics Department at Case Western Reserve University before taking his present position. Internationally known for his work in theoretical physics, he is the winner of numerous international awards, and is the only physicist to have received major awards from all three US physics societies, the American Physical Society, the American Institute of Physics, and the American Association of Physics Teachers. Krauss is also a commentator and essayist for newspapers such as the New York Times, and the Wall St. Journal, and has written regular columns for New Scientist and Scientific American and appears regularly on radio and television. He is one of the few scientists to have crossed the chasm between science and popular culture, and is also active in issues of science and society. He serves as co-chair of the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and on the Board of Directors of the Federation of American Scientists.

I sit down with Philosophy PHD dropout Jon Badiali (IsDoBe.com) to talk about his journey into Christianity. He goes through nihilism, stops by Heidegger, and binges on Spinozan Pantheism but finds it all a deeply unsatisfying answer to the problem of suffering. Ultimately, he finds his rock in Christ. We talk a bit about Eastern Orthodoxy and Fr. Seraphim Rose, a conversation I find delightful. Enjoy!  1:59 - Interview Starts 5:36 - Eastern vs. Western Christianity  8:10 - Philosophy & Nihilism 27:04 - Heidegger and Christianity  39:14 - Christianity confronts suffering 43:05 - Wrestling with despair 51:37 - Finding and Choosing Christ 56:23 - The road to Damascus moment 1:01:50 - Discovering Orthodoxy  1:12:00 - Leaving the Endless Party

Edited by  @Kipp Davis  . Subscribe to his channel because he is a friend of MythVision and is discussing overlapping material. Great guy as well with a brilliant mind! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBTO... A Scholarly Excavation of The Gospel of John's Sinful Woman (John 8) Dr. Dennis R. MacDonald

In a first for this channel, here's a real, live debate between me and Oxford University PPE undergraduate Josh Parikh on the topic of fine tuning, with regards to my response to a video called "How a Dice can show that God exists", which was produced by Justin Brierly, the host of this radio show.  I'm glad to be able to share this with you, it was a fun discussion.

Critics and skeptics of the Bible have often charged that the Bible is full of contradictions. In this engaging presentation, Tim Chaffey shows that God’s Word can be trusted from beginning to end, and although it does have some difficult passages, it does not contain any contradictions. Many of the common mistakes of the critics are explained and answered. Tim also describes why God allowed these difficulties into His Word, and using several examples, he teaches believers how to deal with these Bible difficulties.   Tim Chaffey is the content manager for the Ark Encounter. He speaks regularly at the Creation Museum, camps, schools, and churches, and has authored numerous books.

Karen learns from Mark Lefebvre about a new way to look at John Vervaeke's 4 Ps of knowing, by shifting one Perspectival to a foundational mode, and adding the Parabolic as one of the 4 Ps. Lots of good content if you are avid enough to stay for the whole discussion:-) Scroll down for a note from Mark with links to his work.

Jan 26

In this video I discuss Calvinism and Coronavirus with Paul VanderKlay and others.

Mar 19 2020

In the 2020 Natalie Boymel Kampen Memorial Lecture, Dan-el Padilla Peralta explores the historical and contemporary implications of the discipline of Classics in epistemicide, a concept popularized by the postcolonial theorist Boaventura de Sousa Santos to designate the extirpation of locally rooted ways of knowing as a direct result of imperial violence. Drawing on the writings of Avery Gordon, Saidiya Hartman, and César Sánchez Beras, Padilla Peralta generates some critical momentum around the premise that Classics is a ghostly matter, haunted by its participation in global projects of race-making but insistent on denying responsibility for the violences committed in its name.    Dan-el Padilla Peralta is Associate Professor of Classics at Princeton University. He is the author of the forthcoming Divine Institutions (Princeton UP), co-editor of Rome, Empire of Plunder: The Dynamics of Cultural Appropriation (Cambridge UP, 2017), and author of Undocumented: A Dominican Boy’s Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League (Penguin, 2015).

Mark and Manuel are back with me to respond to my recent conversation with John Vervaeke and Paul VanderKlay. They  have their own thoughts about how to parse the 4 P's of knowing. We also riff on stories that make us care and why consumerism doesn't make the world happy.

Jan 14

Mark Lefebvre and Manuel Post are leaders on the Awakening from the Meaning Crisis Discord and the YouTube channel of the same name. They arrived separately from myself at the idea that John Vervaeke's four ways of knowing might be incomplete. After seeing my videos on parabolic knowledge, they reached out to me for a conversation and we had a blast.

Aug 29 2020