The Enlightenment Show

Welcome to The Enlightenment Show’s home page. Below you will find each episode and corresponding show notes. You can choose to view each episode within this page or go to our stand-alone player, which features a larger viewing window along with a show playlist.

http://freethoughtfortwayne.blip.tv

All Enlightenment Shows will air weekly on Tuesday nights at 9:30PM EDT (NEW TIME SLOT) on Comcast Channel 57 and Verizon Fios channel 27.   The shows will be aired randomly on Fort Wayne Access One throughout the week.

As always, please do your own research and continue learning.

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The Enlightenment Show – Show Notes

56 min

Intro: Andy’s Colbert impression!

Leo gets a flu shot from infectious disease specialist Dr. Pamela Kelly.  They discuss Flu and Vaccine myths.

FreeThinker’s Toolkit: David Hume on the problem of miracles.

Blogger Heads: Examine Obama is the anti-Christ videos.

FreeThought Today: A discussion on politics including Prop 8 and homosexual marriage, Elizabeth Dole and anti-atheist ads, and Scientology and the way to happiness ads.

What’s the Harm in vaccine denial.

EP.13 Enlightenment 2.0

Church/State Separation and Sarah Palin

What’s The Harm in Astrology?

Deconversion Corner:  Altar boy to Atheist

FreeThinker’s Toolkit:  Burden of Proof, Occam’s razor, circular logic

Main Segment:  The Supreme Court and the Election.

This is our brand new format with multiple segments for an hour length with several people working on different topics.  My favorite new segment is Deconversion Corner.  Andy and Mark nailed it!  (Who’s next?)  We really have a talented cast and the show is better and more diverse.  By switching to segments, I can give the show a more professional look and sound.   It took a week to edit and post and thanks to Rae for helping select the music and SFX cues. PLEASE THANK everyone who worked on the show.  No one is getting paid for this and they do this to help our community and FreeThought Fort Wayne.   The credits list everyone.

Robert M. Price spoke to FreeThought Fort Wayne about his book “Top Secret: The Truth Behind Today’s Pop Mysticisms,” and many other secular and religious topics in the Allen Country Public Library Theatre on August 6, 2008. It is followed by a lively Q & A section.  We aired this as a special Enlightenment Show.

90 min

Ep. 12 Part 2 Interview with Robert M. Price and John W. Loftus (30 min)

Ep. 11 Part 1 Interview with Robert M. Price and John W. Loftus (29 min)

It was a great pleasure to speak with two ex-ministers about a wide range of topics on Episodes 11 and 12 of “The Enlightenment Show.” They both have preaching backgrounds and are still preaching but their message has changed.

Robert M. Price is author of “Top Secret: The Truth Behind Today’s Pop Mysticisms.” He is a Fellow at The Jesus Seminar and professor of Theology and Scriptural Studies at the Johnnie Coleman Theological Seminary. He is the author of many other books. See his website.

John W. Loftus is author of “Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Christianity.” He is the founder of the blog Debunking Christianity. John grew up in Fort Wayne and formerly preached in Angola, IN.

Ep. 10 Robert M Price Phone Interview about “Top Secret.”

Dr. Robert M. Price will be speaking about his new book “Top Secret: The Truth Behind Today’s Pop Mysticisms” in Fort Wayne on Wed. Aug 6th at 7 PM in the Main Allen County Public Library in the theatre on lower level 2.

This video is a half hour phone interview with enhanced graphics about his coming presentation. There will be a Q and A session after the talk. We would love to see you at the speech. For more info on the event click here.

Episode 9 – The origins of morality

Episode 8 – Pastor Disasters

Episode 7 – The Center for Inquiry – Indiana

• The Center for Inquiry Indiana. What is the center’s mission and vision? Can secular people be moral?
• Reba Boyd Wooden is featured and is the executive director for The Center for Inquiry Indiana. Important links discussed on the show:
• Center for Inquiry-Transnational
• Center for Inquiry- Indiana
• Indy Feethought
• Point of Inquiry Podcast (one of my favorites and it is available on iTunes)

Episode 6 – Ben Stein Fails Science Class (Part 2)

This is part 2 of 2 shows criticizing and reviewing the junk science and ad hominem attacks of Ben Stein’s “Expelled. No Intelligence Allowed” documentary film. (No truth allowed!) Reba Boyd Wooden the executive director of The Center for Inquiry- Indiana joins us for these shows.

• Expelled Exposed
• Ben Stein’s quote mine falsely trying to pin the Holocaust on Darwin!
• Scientific American
• Judgement Day ID on Trial. NOVA (Won a Peabody Award!)
• The Clergy Letter Project
• The Wedge Strategy
• Multimedia Production Site from Harvard. (This is the original stunning animation of the inner cell) Enjoy!
• Union of Concerned Scientist’s Guide to the Political Interference of Science

Episode 5 – Ben Stein Fails Science Class (Part 1)

This is part 1 of 2 shows criticizing and reviewing the junk science and ad hominem attacks of Ben Stein’s “Expelled. No Intelligence Allowed” documentary film. (No truth allowed!) Reba Boyd Wooden the executive director of The Center for Inquiry- Indiana joins us for these shows.

• Expelled Exposed
• Ben Stein’s quote mine falsely trying to pin the Holocaust on Darwin!
• Scientific American
• Judgement Day ID on Trial. NOVA (Won a Peabody Award!)
• The Clergy Letter Project
• The Wedge Strategy
• Multimedia Production Site from Harvard. (This is the original stunning animation of the inner cell) Enjoy!
• Union of Concerned Scientist’s Guide to the Political Interference of Science

Episode 4 – Cold Reading

• A look at Psychic Cold Reading.
• A quick shout out to our Atheists in Fox Holes.
• The wisdom of James Randi.
• What is confirmation bias and the Forer effect?

Episode 3 – The Scientific Method

• The Scientific Method
• Not just a theory.
• A quick look at Tiktalik and Neal Shubin’s “Your Inner Fish”

Episode 2 – The Separation of Church and State

• The Separation of Church and State.

Episode 1 – Why we are doing this

• Why we felt the need to do the Enlightenment Show.