{"id":13543,"date":"2022-08-14T15:25:09","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T15:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=13543"},"modified":"2022-08-21T18:35:03","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T18:35:03","slug":"2022-08-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2022-08-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Two videos on &#8220;God Does NOT Exist&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1583\" height=\"440\" src=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/humanists.org_2022_08_14_oxford-union.org_-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13547\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<h3>Michael Shermer and Peter Millican<\/h3>\n<p><strong>11 a.m., August 14, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This Sunday we we will watch and discuss two videos on the topic &#8220;God Does NOT Exist&#8221;, debated at the Oxford Union Society.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Michael Shermer begins by saying that 84% of the world&#8217;s population believe in some kind of organised religion. How do those who believe in a particular religion know that they have chosen the right one and everyone else has got it wrong?<br>\nDr. Shermer is an author and founder of the Skeptics Society.<br>\nYou can see his 16-minute talk at www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0pOI2YvVuuE.\n<\/p>\n<p>Professor Peter Millican says that every religion has a moral code, but this is not surprising as humans are universally moral beings. We are moral because we are a weak species, and the only way we can survive is by cooperation in society. We need a morality to be able to do that.<br>\nProfessor Millican is the Gilbert Ryle Fellow &amp; Tutor in Philosophy at Hertford College, and a Reader in Early Modern Philosophy at Oxford.<br>\nYou can see his 23-minute talk at www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rcHRRjsttOc.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Because of the coronavirus situation, this Forum will be held online.<\/p>\n<p>To see the Forum, and to ask questions or make comments, if you wish, click <a href=\"https:\/\/us06web.zoom.us\/j\/81653890712?pwd=QzN4MTVNbGEwQ0Zua3d1VG9tVE50UT09\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<br>Our host will admit you from the waiting room. Joining the meeting via the above link will download and install the Zoom app on your desktop computer, if it&#8217;s not already installed, and then take you to the meeting. 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Dr Michael Shermer begins by saying that 84% of the world&#8217;s population believe in some kind of organised religion. How do those &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2022-08-14\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Two videos on &#8220;God Does NOT Exist&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[258],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13548,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13543\/revisions\/13548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}