An introduction is below. The address lasts for 40 minutes and is followed by questions from the attendees. If the video is jerky pause it, then wait until it’s fully downloaded (i.e. the growing grey bar has filled its box). This is a high compression version made for web viewing.
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Glenn is a PhD (Post hole Digger) looking for work in the theology/philosophy field, and you can read his CV. I highly recommend him.
Here’s Glenn’s introduction from his blog:
The New Atheists, that outspoken motley crew full of passion and godlessness (a description I rather suspect they’d appreciate and endorse), have little time for the view that the existence of moral truths is correctly explained with reference to God as the moral lawgiver. That view, says Sam Harris, is downright dangerous in our day and age. Instead, we should think of moral facts as being scientific facts, facts revealed to us by neuroscience as it describes the human brain and its ability to produce the experience of either happiness or suffering. With this argument in hand, many might think that the New Atheists have latched on to a way of preserving genuine moral truths in a world without God.
But have they? In this public lecture I’ll explain how Dr Harris presents his view, and I will also explain the fundamental moral issues that his account overlooks altogether. Far from being an explanation of morality that makes God redundant, what the New Atheists really have in Harris’s account is a model of morality that lacks foundations unless God is re-introduced as the lawgiver who decides which states of affairs we ought to be trying to bring about in the first place. (source)
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