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Dan Dennett: Dan Dennett's Response to Rick Warren

February 1, 2006 (over 18 years ago)

Dan Dennett shares his thoughts on the democratic way of educating students about other religions and of his opposition to the intelligent design.

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Source: TED

Philippe Starck: Philippe Starck Thinks Deep on Design

March 1, 2007 (about 17 years ago)

Philippe Starck thinks deep on how our life has become and how mutation has influenced our intelligence and design.

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Source: TED

Julia Sweeney: Letting Go of God

February 1, 2006 (over 18 years ago)

Julia Sweeney talks about her religious upbringing and her beliefs and non-beliefs that sprung later on.

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Source: TED

Martin Luther King Jr.: Rediscovering Lost Values

February 28, 1954 (about 70 years ago)

Martin Luther King delivered this sermon at the pulpit of the Second Baptist Church in Detroit. He urges the people to retrace their steps and go back to retrieve lost values that are important in making a better world. He reiterates the taken for granted truth that everything is anchored to mora...

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Source: Baptist Press

John Adams: Proclamation of Day of Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer

March 23, 1798 (about 226 years ago)

At a time when 'the United States of America are at present placed in a hazardous and afflictive situation by the unfriendly disposition, conduct, and demands of a foreign power, evinced by repeated refusals to receive our messengers of reconciliation and peace, by depredation on our commerce, an...

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James Randi: James Randi's Fiery Takedown of Psychic Fraud

February 1, 2007 (over 17 years ago)

James Randi explains how we are easily fooled by psychics with the hope of relieving our grief or depression towards our deceased.

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Source: TED

Feisal Abdul Rauf: Lose Your Ego, Find Your Compassion

October 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)

Feisal Abdul Rauf talks about being selfless and being compassionate by shunning our ego to glorify God.

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Source: TED

Martin Luther King Jr.: The Birth of a New Nation

April 7, 1957 (about 67 years ago)

Martin Luther King uses the Exodus and the story behind Ghana's liberation from Britain to show the steps in attaining freedom.

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Source: The King Center

Lee Smolin: Science and Democracy

February 1, 2003 (over 21 years ago)

Lee Smolin explains democracy in scientific terms and with scientific data backed by some of the biggest scientists of the pre-modern times.

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Source: TED

James Madison: Proclamation of Day of Fasting and Prayer

July 9, 1812 (almost 212 years ago)

Stepping across the chasm into a state of war with Great Britain, President James Madison calls on the people of the United States to pray to God for perseverance and forgiveness and guidance to peace.

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