The script for this collaboration is based in part on and was inspired by a quote by Sam Harris; "If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove they should value it? If someone someone doesn't value logic, what logical argument are you going to provide to show the importance of logic?" The card in the middle is a still image from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The narration on the card is from a trailer for 1960's "Once More with Feeling" starring Yul Brynner. Participants' pages in order of appearance: www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com The script: I accept and understand the scientific method. If you don't, then I cannot use science to make you understand that evolution happens. I accept the rules of logic. If you do not, then no logical argument is going to persuade you that a benevolent and all loving deity is inconsistent with suffering or damnation. I trust that the rules of math are constant. If you don't, then you can rationalize a day equaling a thousand years and that two of every animal known to mankind could survive a 40 day trip on a boat made of wood during a storm with only a handful of humans to care for them. I am comfortable with the fact that there are certain unknowns and that new things are being learned every day in such fields as geology, physics, cosmology, molecular biology and neurology. If ...
Jonathan Pritchard, ITC, during the workshop, "Hydrogen Cosmology Workshop", held May 18-20, 2011 at TheInstitute for Theoretical, Atomic and Molecular and Optical Physics, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts. This workshop was sponsored jointly with The Institute for Theory and Computation. © Harvard University and Jonathan Pritchard. The text and images on ITAMP's YouTube channel are intended for public access and educational use. This material is owned or held by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. It is being provided solely for the purpose of teaching or individual research or enrichment. Any other use, including commercial reuse, mounting on other systems, or other forms of redistribution requires permission. ITAMP is supported through grants by the National Science Foundation Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s).
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