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  1. Aug 27

    Science Tells You How to Live, Not God | with Michael Shermer

    Michael Shermer and Alex Buxeda get into where morality actually comes from, and why "God did it" doesn't explain a thing. From the Bible and abortion to evolution, markets, tolerance and demographic collapse, they make the case that ethics comes from human nature, not sacred books. Skeptic Magazine: https://www.skeptic.com/ Michael Shermer's books: https://michaelshermer.com/books/ 00:00 – Teaser: "God did it" isn't an explanation 00:51 – Can you identify as a horse? The borders of sex & species 01:50 – The Bible's morality vs. the morality we actually live by 04:23 – Abortion isn't actually in the Bible 06:59 – The Bible as a "wiki" & why Shermer quit theology 09:43 – Scripture that evolved: variation, selection & the roots of charity 13:24 – The ultimate decentering: from Copernicus to Darwin 15:09 – Religion got there first: morality as game theory 16:11 – The Leviathan, the eye in the sky & the Wild West 18:45 – Deriving an "ought" from an "is" & the naturalistic fallacy 21:49 – Hitting rock bottom: Gödel & the universe that just exists 23:41 – Stephen Meyer & why theology always chases the science 26:00 – God of the gaps: dark matter, James Webb & bad explanations 30:35 – Wokeness as a Trojan horse of the Enlightenment 32:47 – Trans rights, conflicting rights & classical liberalism 34:36 – You can't change sex: gametes, biology & six fingers 36:49 – Does fitness decide morality? "What if the Nazis won?" 39:52 – The march to democracy & the invention of "genocide" 42:44 – Stein's Law & the great fertility reversal 45:27 – Polygamy, the spandrel of male desire & memes vs. genes 47:01 – Bottom-up innovation, broken windows & time preference 49:56 – Trust, the marshmallow test & the roots of GDP 51:37 – Gold, Bitcoin & liquidity across time 53:58 – Stocks: a bet on human ingenuity 54:55 – The Mag Seven & what comes after the iPhone 57:14 – David Deutsch: to predict the future is to build it 58:14 – Nothing is impossible except what physics forbids 1:01:29 – The darkness: is the Enlightenment even fit to survive? 1:06:06 – Leaving Spain for Switzerland & the "effective" fertility rate 1:09:05 – Butterfly or cockroach? Entropy vs. the Enlightenment 1:11:24 – Immigration done right & "A Few Good Men" 1:15:23 – The welfare state & why bureaucracies never shrink 1:18:30 – Status, not money, is what drives people to have kids 1:20:29 – "Collapsing Is A Not": the essay & morality as fitness 1:23:36 – Trust is a Law of Nature Support Schweizer Monat: https://schweizermonat.payrexx.com/pay?cid=77cf037a

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Studio Schweizer Monat: Die Diskussionssendungen des «Schweizer Monats», das Medium für Macher und Denker.  Zu unseren Formaten gehören die Videogespräche «Studio Schweizer Monat» und der Podcast  «Macher und Denker».

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