Something Happening Here: A Mash-up of Science, Religion, and Politics
We retired this podcast, because we couldn't parse it for 10 consecutive times.
Clarence Darrow said it best: "Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, though you never touch its coattails." Something Happening Here joins the chase after questions such as: Who are we? How did we get here? And as long as I'm here, where can I get some good pizza? --- We take a naturalist, humanist approach to what's happening in this life, this planet, here and now. We start with Galileo's emphasis on our senses, reason, and intellect. Science provides the objective tools necessary for responsible, informed thought on these and other questions. Religion can complement the facts with a subjective, nonrational, emotion-driven context. And as if the science and religion issues weren't complex enough, once this starts involving politics, the fun really begins. --- AS OF EPISODE 15, for health-related reasons I'm allocating less time for the podcast (as became evident in October and November). I'm pretty sure I can produce one a month, occasionally maybe more. Please keep your subscription active and I'll do my best to make it worth your bandwidth. Thanks very much for your interest!
- Website
- http://www.somethinghappeninghere.com/
- Description
- Something Happening Here takes a naturalist, humanist approach to what's going on here and now in this life, this planet. Science and reason provide the necessary objective tools; religion offers a subjective outlook. And they mesh perfectly! Or, well, maybe not. (Honestly, it's more fun than it sounds. At least occasionally.)
- Language
- last modified
- 2008-06-29 15:10
- last episode published
- 2008-12-03 17:00
- publication frequency
- 11.19 days
- Contributors
- Chuck Bryant
- Owner Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 15
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- Categories
- Religion & Spirituality News Science & Medicine
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Episodes
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| 2008-12-03 |
15 Diary of a Mad Editor: Deborah Markus, Secular Homeschooling Magazine and Website Deborah Markus is the Mad Editor behind the website and hard-copy Secular Homeschooling magazine. She writes, edits, publishes, and even does the mechanical work on the website's private jet. It's all done to encourage and support effective home educat... |
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| 2008-11-29 | Please accept my apologies for the inconsistency lately. Here's a little explanation. I do hope to continue the podcast; health issues and related concerns will probably limit me to once a month, at best. (Thanks very much for the support from those wh... |
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| 2008-10-29 | Dr. Jerome Lynn Hall talks about Nautical Archaeology, Surf Culture, and more. |
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| 2008-10-08 | Six participants from Yahoo's Human_ism forum sit down to talk. After brief introductions in which they share how they came to identify themselves as humanists and what that means to them, they apply their beliefs and values to a discussion of basic hu... |
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| 2008-09-30 | She writes, she blogs, she takes photos, she keeps up two websites, she scrapbooks! Also, she's raising her children to be thoughtful, intelligent, inquisitive, honest, caring, and creative, and she doesn't need religion to do it (still, even a humanis... |
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| 2008-09-23 | Dr. Anthony Rest of the Royal Society of Chemistry spotlights the Pan Africa Chemistry Network. Launched in London in 2007 and Nairobi in May 2008, the PANC aims to help African countries cultivate professional development and networking in the science... |
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| 2008-09-17 |
09 Chemistry Without Laboratories (I): Hands-on Chemistry with Dr. Jodye Selco Dr. Jodye Selco discusses techniques to introduce some basic chemistry at every level from fifth grade to college -- all without standard lab equipment. |
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| 2008-08-27 |
08 Very Practical Physics: Dr. Hugh Haskell on Nuclear Disarmament Dr. Hugh Haskell, Senior Science Fellow at the Energy for Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, discusses nuclear disarmament. He asserts that to solve this problem and make the world safer, the U.S. should take the moral high ground: we nee... |
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| 2008-08-21 |
07 Unitarian Universalism with Barbara Byrne and David Roelant Barbara Byrne and David Roelant share their experiences with Unitarian Universalism, a progressive, humanist religious group. |
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| 2008-08-13 | Both religion and science aim to help us understand our world and our place in it. Science actually grew out of religion. But today the two systems operate in different ways. Can they coexist? |
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