Episode 24 - Daniel Dennett - Thank Goodness

This episode of Cold Beer for the Skeptic's Mind features Daniel Dennett, philosopher, writer, and cognitive scientist.  Today's excerpt comes from his essays called "Thank Goodness," which can be found in the recent publication, "Philosophers Without Gods: Meditations on Atheism and the Secular Life," published last year by Oxford University Press.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Episode 23 - Robert Ingersoll - Freedom

This episode of Cold Beer for the Skeptic's Mind features Robert G. Ingersoll, popular American political leader and orator during the nineteenth century. This excerpt comes from his essay, "Why I am an Agnostic."

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Episode 22 - Carl Sagan - The Dragon in My Garage

This episode of Cold Beer for the Skeptic's Mind features Carl Sagan, famous author and astronomer. The passage is a popular one from his book called The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark.

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Episode 21 - Chapman Cohen - Freethought

This episode of Cold Beer for the Skeptic's Mind features Chapman Cohen, an English secularist, writer, and lecturer. Today's excerpt comes from his essay called, "The Meaning and Value of Freethought."


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Episode 19 - Bart Ehrman - God's Problem

This episode of Cold Beer for the Skeptic's Mind features Bart Ehrman, a professor of Religious Studies at the University of Northern Carolina, Chapel Hill. Today's excerpt comes from his book called God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question--Why We Suffer.

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Episode 18 - Richard Dawkins - The Greatest Show on Earth

This episode of Cold Beer for the Skeptic's Mind features Richard Dawkins, a British evolutionary biologist, an outspoken advocate for evolution and atheism, and a popular author and speaker.  Today's excerpt comes from his recent book called, "The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution."

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Episode 17 - Brian Greene - The Elegant Universe

This episode of Cold Beer for the Skeptic's Mind features Brian Greene, a professor at Columbia University, a theoretical physicist and string theorist. He's written several books on String Theory, the structure of the universe, and cosmology. Greene is most well-known for his PBS television special called The Elegant Universe, based on his popular science book of the same name, from which today's excerpt can be found.

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Episode 16 - Neil DeGrasse Tyson - Holy Wars

This episode of Cold Beer for the Skeptic's Mind features Neil DeGrasse Tyson, American astrophysicist, author, and science popularizer.

This excerpt comes from an essay of his called, "Holy Wars," which can be found in his book, "Death By Black Hole."

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Episode 15 - Michael Shermer - Why Darwin Matters

This episode of Cold Beer for the Skeptic's Mind features Michael Shermer, American author, founder of the Skeptic Society, and Editor in Chief of Skeptic's Magazine. This excerpt comes from his book called, "Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design."

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Cold Beer for the Skeptic's Mind - Episode 14 - Greg Epstein - Good Without God

This episode of Cold Beer for the Skeptic's Mind features Greg Epstein, a published author and advocate of Secular Humanism. He currently serves as the secular humanist chaplain at Harvard University. This excerpt comes from his book called "Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe," published by Harper Collins in 2010.

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Episode 13 - Clarence Darrow - Why Agnosticism?

This episode of Cold Beer for the Skeptic's Mind features Clarence Darrow, American lawyer and civil libertarian. He is best well known for defending John Scopes in the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925. Today's excerpt comes from his collection of essays called "Why I Am An Agnostic."

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Episode 12 - Dan Barker - Purpose Of Life

This episode of Cold Beer for the Skeptic's Mind features Dan Barker, former minister and outspoken Atheist advocate in America. He is the co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, an American Freethought organization promoting the separation of church and state. Today's passage comes from his book called "Godless" in which Barker explains his views about life's purpose.

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Episode 11 - Bertrand Russell - Skeptical Essays

This episode of Cold Beer for the Skeptic's Mind features Bertrand Russell, British philospher and mathematician. Today's passage is an excerpt from a piece called "On the Value of Skepticism," which served as the Introduction to his book called "Skeptical Essays."


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Episode 10 - Joseph L. Lewis - What Difference?

This episode of Cold Beer for the Skeptic's Mind features Joseph L. Lewis, American publisher and the president of the Freethinkers of America. This passage is the opening section of his book called An Atheist Manifesto.

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Episode 09 - CB4SM - Helen H. Gardener - My Creed

This episode of Cold Beer for the Skeptic's Mind features Helen Hamilton Gardener, an American civil servant and suffragist in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The passage comes from her book titled, "Men, Women, and Gods," and is her answer to the question of what creed she would have to replace faith.

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Episode 08 - CB4SM - Robert G. Ingersoll - Religion of Humanity

This episode of Cold Beer for the Skeptic's Mind features Robert G. Ingersoll. The passage comes from a series of remarks given by Robert Greeley, chair of the Robert G. Ingersoll Memorial Committee, at the opening of an Ingersoll Birthplace Museum. According to Greeley, Ingersoll was waiting for a train in Waco when a reporter asked him, “Colonel, the clergy say that you are nothing but a secularist, one who goes around promoting secularism. How do you answer that charge?” Ingersoll's extemporaneous reply is still relevant over a hundred years later.

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Cold Beer Podcast Featured in iTunes

Well, this is mildly exciting for me.  My podcast Cold Beer for the Skeptic's Mind is on the "New and Noteworthy" page in iTunes under the category of "Religion and Spirituality - Other."

Of course, it's probably more accurate for iTunes to call this group "New OR Noteworthy," and that my own effort falls under the former label rather than the latter.  But it's an honor just to be nominated.

Episode 07 - CB4SM - Rabbi Sherwin Wine - Two Visions

This episode of Cold Beer for the Skeptic's Mind features Rabbi Sherwin Wine, 20th century American rabbi and a founding figure of Humanistic Judaism. The passage is called "Two Visions" and highlights two competing visions for the future of America.


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Episode 06 - CB4SM - Algernon Black - Call to the Living

This episode of Cold Beer for the Skeptic's Mind features Algernon Black, American teacher and the leader of the New York Society for Ethical Culture, and his inspiration free verse called, "This is a Call to the Living."

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* Apologies.  I originally linked to the wrong file, which has now been fixed.

Episode 05 - CB4SM - Charles Darwin - On the Origin of Species

This episode of Cold Beer for the Skeptic's Mind features English naturalist Charles Darwin and is an excerpt of his famous work, On the Origin of Species.


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