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Javna debata IQ2 pod naslovom: Would the World Be Better Off Without Religion? održat će se 15. studenog u New Yorku u SADu. Kao i do sad, sa svake strane nalaze se dva debatora, a cilj je dobiti više glasova nego nakon prvog izjašnjavanje publike.
Tvrdnja je: Svijet bi bio bolji bez vjere.
Gosti su:
Za tvrdnju:
Mahew Chapman poznati ateisti i borac protiv religije, najnoviji film:

The Ledge, was accepted into competition at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and deals with the ultimately fatal feud between an atheist and an evangelical Christian.

A.C. Grayling, a britanski filozof i profesor, napisao brojne knjige na temu religije, posljednja mu je ‘The Good Book: A Humanist Bible’.
Protiv tvrdnje:
polemičar Dinesh D’Souza i
rabin David Wolpe.
iq2.

Matt Ridley i Steven Pinker, poznati optimisti današnjice, razgovaraju 1.11.2011. o tome je li svijet stvarno bolje mjesto za živjeti nego što je to bio ranije.
Matt Ridley je autor ‘Agilnog gena’ koji je preveden na hrvatski i može se kupiti u svim boljim knjižarama.
Stavit ćemo video čim bude dostupan.
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Can violence really have declined? The images of global conflict we see daily on our screens suggest this is an almost obscene claim to be making. Extraordinarily, however, in this riveting talk to accompany his new book The Better Angels of Our Nature US cognitive scientist Steven Pinker shows violence within and between societies ? both murder and warfare ? has actually declined from prehistory to today.

Ranging over everything from art to religion, trade to table manners, Pinker shows how life has changed across the centuries and around the world ? not simply through the huge benefits of organized government, but also because of the extraordinary power of progressive ideas. Why has this come about? And what does it tell us about ourselves? It takes one of the world’s greatest psychologists to have the ambition and the breadth of understanding to appreciate and explain this story, to show us our very natures.

IQ2 opširnije.

Teško bolestan Christopher Hitchens satelitom će razgovarati sa Stephenom Fryom.
Za Hitchensa je Ian McEwan rekao:

‘If Hitchens didn’t exist, we wouldn’t be able to invent him.’ Ian McEwan

Dvorana je rasprodana, te će se organizirati uživo prijenos u kinima (Ł10 do Ł16.60) širom Velike Britanije.
Intelligence2 je imala interesantne diskusije (je li Amerika kriva za Meksički narko rat?, Ateizam je nov fundamentalizam, i druge. Prije i poslije diskusije publika glasa.
U najavi su teme:

Beware of the dragon: Africa should not look to China
Debate: November 28th, 2011

Britain’s former colonies should stop blaming the Empire for their ills
Debate: November 17th, 2011

Pročitajte detalje Hitchens – Fry.

ABC je održao debatu s temom: Ateisti griješe.
Prije i poslije tih debata se publika izjasni o tome slaže li se s naslovom ili ne.
Glasovi: prije – poslije
For: 28.5% – 28%
Undecided: 15.5% – 6%
Against: 56% – 66%