Mar 11, 2010
“Does God Have a Future?”
That’s just one of the science and religion questions Michael Shermer and Sam Harris will debate with Deepak Chopra and Jean Houston as part of Nightline’s “Face Off” series. The live debate will be moderated by ABC News anchor Dan Harris on March 14 at the California Institute of Technology, and will air on March 23.
Here’s the preview:
Chopra and Houston contend the universe is proof that there is intelligence at the heart of creation and that a person needs to look beyond what can be seen and touched while Shermer and Harris advocate that science and biology can explain what is happening to people when they pray, meditate, and believe in God and that evolution can explain why our beliefs developed.
The main bone of contention between Science and Religion is not Evolution or anything like that.
It is the threat that Religion poses to free speech and academic freedom. Professor Luxenberg wrote an extremely scholarly account of the origin of the Qu’ran and the Arabic language itself.
Religious people are threatening to kill him. I am wondering whether the main arguments of Science are not physical. Drones, autonomous weapons. Will the Predator prove Luxenberg right?