Sam Harris – Neuroscientist – Science has Answers to Moral Issues
Sam Harris, a partner of Richard Dawkins, Dan Dennett and Christopher Hitches, argues that science can answer questions of good and evil, right and wrong and does not have to defer to religions. He further argues that religion is manifestly unfit to decide these issues in many cases. Harris received a degree in philosophy from Stanford and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA. He is the co-founder and CEO of Project Reason, a nonprofit devoted to spreading scientific knowledge and secular values in society.
This is controversial stuff, for sure, but I think we are strong enough to handle all of the information from a wide variety of sources to inform our decisions and beliefs.
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