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PBS’s The Question of God: Suffering & Death

June 15, 2004

Is the suffering we experience in the world evidence for or against God? What do you believe happens after death? How does belief or lack of belief in an afterlife affect your understanding of life?

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The Science of Good & Evil (AirTalk 89.3 KPCC)

March 15, 2004

Michael Shermer joins Larry Mantle to talk about his book The Science of Good and Evil in which he explains how humans transformed the moral sentiments displayed in many primate species — shame and trust, for instance — into ethical principles.

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AirTalk 89.3 KPCC, Pasadena (December 2003)

December 15, 2003

Michael Shermer joins Larry Mantle to talk about the biggest recent science stories in the news.

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The Science of Good & Evil

June 15, 2003

Michael Shermer’s tour for his book, The Science of Good and Evil, found him here explaining why we are moral, the evolutionary origins of the moral sentiments, and how to be good without God.

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Debunking James Van Praagh & Psychics

June 15, 2000

Michael Shermer explains how psychic James Van Praagh appears to talk to the dead by using such mentalism tricks as cold reading and hot reading.

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