Humanist Web Watch

Some links of interest to humanists. There are many more of these, but I thought these were very good representatives.

Nova special on the Dover, PA evolution vs. intelligent design trial
part 1 of 12 (~120 minutes total)

Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker
part 1 of 5 (~50 minutes total)

Richard Dawkins, The Root of All Evil (titled by the BBC)
Episode 1, part 1 of 5 (~50 minutes total)(includes his famous run-in with Ted Haggard)
Episode 2, part 1 of 5 (~50 minutes total)

Richard Dawkins, Enemies of Reason
Episode 1, part 1 of 5 (~50 minutes total)
Episode 2, part 1 of 5 (~50 minutes total)

Sam Harris debates Rabbi David Wolpe
Part 1 of 11 (~110 minutes total)

Christopher Hitchens, speaking in Seattle as part of his “God is Not Great” book tour, 2007
Part 1 of 8 (~75 minutes total)

Bill Hicks, “It’s Just a Ride”
(~ 2 minutes)

Julia Sweeney, early version of “Letting Go of God”
Part 1 of 4 (~36 minutes total)

James Randi exposes James Hydrick
(18 minutes)

James Randi exposes spoon-bender Uri Geller, psychic surgeons, faith healer Peter Popoff
(14 minutes)

Richard Dawkins, talk in Lynchburg, VA in 2006
Part 1 of 2 (~107 minutes total)
Part 2 of 2

Richard Dawkins at 2005 TED talks: The Strangeness of Science
(~23 minutes)

Michael Shermer at 2006 TED meeting: Why People Believe Strange Things
(~14 minutes)

Michael Shermer Decodes the Bible Code
(~ 6 minutes)

Carl Sagan on the mysterious universe and religion
(~2 minutes)

Michael Shermer on Firewalking
(~7 minutes)

Carl Sagan on “The Demon-Haunted World”
Part 1 of 4 (~40 minutes total)

Jesus Camp, documentary about religious indoctrination
Part 1 of 9 (~87 minutes total)

Richard Dawkins: Break the Science Barrier
Part 1 of 6 (~50 minutes)

Pat Condell: What’s good about religion?
(~6 minutes)

Bart Ehrman discusses ”Misquoting Jesus“ at Stanford
Part 1 of 10: (~100 minutes total)

Richard Dawkins at 2002 TED meeting: An Athiest’s Call to Arms
(~31 minutes)

Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss discussion at Stanford
Part 1 of 12 (~116 minutes total)

James Randi explains homeopathy
(~14 minutes)

Penn & Teller: Bullshit: Talking to the Dead
Part 1 of 3 (~26 minutes total)

For the Bible Tells Me So - an incredibly moving, informative, movie about religion and homosexuality
Part 1 of 11 (~120 minutes total - be careful, there are subparts to this)

Friends of God - a clip from an HBO documentary about religious fundamentalists
(~7 minutes)

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Also: Left Behind, an incredibly erudite, hilarious, page-by-page deconstruction of the warped theology, poor authorship, and lack of logic in “Left Behind”, by blogger Fred Clark (the Slacktivist).

Bart Ehrman Fresh Air Interview on theodicy, February 2008
(~48 minutes)

PZ Myers’ blog Pharyngula