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Aug 5, 2003 — Robert Wright & Robert Pollack
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Being good without God

Faith and reason

Religion as pathology

The problem of evil

 

Robert Pollack is a Professor of Biological Sciences at Columbia University.

Aug 5, 2003 — Robert Wright & John Haught
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Direction in evolution
Limits of science
Pantheism
Religion in a global age
Taoism
The perennial philosophy
What is God?
John Haught is Landegger Distinguished Professor of Theology at Georgetown University.
Aug 5, 2003 — Robert Wright & Owen Gingerich
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Evolution of religion
Faith and reason
Limits of science
Other dimensions
Pantheism
Purpose in the universe
Religion in a global age
The anthropic principle
What is God?
Owen Gingerich is a senior astronomer emeritus at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and Research Professor of Astronomy and of the History of Science at Harvard University.
Aug 5, 2003 — Robert Wright & Ursula Goodenough
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Being good without God

Consciousness

Direction in evolution

Gratitude

Religion in a global age

The problem of evil

 

Ursula Goodenough is a professor of biology at Washington University.

Aug 5, 2003 — Robert Wright & Keith Ward
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Evolution of religion

Limits of science

Quantum weirdness

Religion in a global age

Self-transcendence

The Godhead

The problem of evil

 

Keith Ward is Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University.

Aug 5, 2003 — Robert Wright & Francis Fukuyama
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Being good without God

Consciousness

Direction in history

Limits of science

Purpose in history

Religion in a global age

 

Francis Fukuyama is the Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of Political Economy at the School of Advanced International Studies.

Aug 5, 2003 — Robert Wright & Sharon Salzberg
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Faith and reason

Karma

Quantum weirdness

Self-transcendence

The problem of evil

Why meditate?

 

Sharon Salzberg is a cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, where she is one of the resident guiding teachers.

Aug 5, 2003 — Robert Wright & Omid Safi
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Free will

Islam and the west

Mystical experiences

Religion in a global age

Sufism

The problem of evil

The problem of pleasure

What good is religion?

What is God?

 

Omid Safi teaches in the Religion and Philosophy Department at Colgate University.

Aug 5, 2003 — Robert Wright & Arthur Peacocke
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Direction in evolution

Faith and reason

Free will

Pantheism

Religion in a global age

The problem of evil

What is God?

 

Arthur Peacocke, formerly a biochemist and a member of the theology faculty at Oxford University, is honorary canon of Christ Church Cathedral at Oxford and a past winner of the Templeton Prize.

Aug 5, 2003 — Robert Wright & Huston Smith
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Being good without God

Faith and reason

Limits of science

Mystical experiences

Quantum weirdness

Religion in a global age

The Godhead

The problem of evil

 

Huston Smith is Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion and Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at Syracuse University.

Aug 5, 2003 — Robert Wright & Brian Swimme
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Cosmic evolution

Death

Light

Quantum weirdness

Religion in a global age

Science and religion

The anthropic principle

What is God?

 

Brian Swimme is a mathematical cosmologist on the graduate faculty of the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.

Aug 5, 2003 — Robert Wright & Lorenzo Albacete
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Death

Direction in history

Evolution of religion

Religion in a global age

What is God?

 

Monsignor Lorenzo Albacete, formerly a physicist, a professor of theology at St. Joseph’s Seminary in New York, and president of the Catholic University of Puerto Rico, is now national director of the lay movement Communion and Liberation. His essays have appeared in the New Yorker and the New York Times Magazine.