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65 min. Creationism in Camouflage: The “Intelligent Design” Deception

Thursday, April 8, 2010 with Keith Lockitch

This talk by Keith Lockitch was delivered on November 17, 2005, as part of the ARC Lecture Series.

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Tags: ARC Speaker Series, creationism, evolution, intelligent design, religion

5 min. Morality without Religion

Wednesday, January 20, 2010 with Onkar Ghate, Yaron Brook

Yaron Brook and Onkar Ghate explain how moral concepts can be validated without reference to religion.

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Tags: ARC Speaker Series, morality, reason vs faith, religion

111 min. Faith and Force: The Destroyers of the Modern World

Thursday, January 14, 2010 with Ayn Rand

In this sweeping talk on the impact of philosophy throughout history, Ayn Rand explains why mysticism is altruism’s precondition, and why dictatorship is its product.

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Tags: altruism, Objectivism, philosophy, religion

4 min. Secularism in the Muslim World

Tuesday, January 5, 2010 with Yaron Brook

Yaron Brook discusses the problems of attempting to foster secularism in religious cultures.

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Tags: Islamic totalitarianism, religion, secularism

70 min. Back to the Dark Ages? Today’s Attacks on Reason and Individualism

Thursday, December 17, 2009 with Peter Schwartz

This talk by Peter Schwartz was recorded on November 18, 2002, as part of the ARC Lecture Series.

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Tags: ARC Speaker Series, environmentalism, multiculturalism, primitivism, religion

4 min. Religion and the Rise of Capitalism

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 with Yaron Brook

Yaron Brook discusses how capitalism could develop from a culture that nominally upheld Christian ethics. Excerpted from an ARC Lecture Series Q-&-A session.

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111 min. Of Living Death

Thursday, October 29, 2009 with Ayn Rand

A lecture by Ayn Rand, recorded at the Ford Hall Forum in 1968. How religion seeks to undercut man’s self-esteem by inculcating guilt for enjoying sex—and for daring to think that his own happiness is the purpose of his life.

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Tags: contraceptives, Ford Hall Forum, religion, sex