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Sam Harris: Religions Are Failed Sciences (Video)

Author Sam Harris discusses religion, and  posits that religions are failed sciences. What do you think?

Here’s Sam Harris‘ bio, via Wikipedia:

Sam Harris (born 1967) is an American author, neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and currently the CEO of Project Reason. He received a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from Stanford University, before receiving a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA. He is a proponent of scientific skepticism and is the author of The End of Faith (2004), which won the 2005 PEN/Martha Albrand Award, Letter to a Christian Nation (2006), a rejoinder to criticism of his first book, and The Moral Landscape (2010).

He is a well-known contemporary critic of religion, along with evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, philosopher Daniel Dennett, physicists Lawrence Krauss and Victor Stenger, as well as journalist Christopher Hitchens. Being a member of the New Atheism movement, Harris also calls for separation of church and state, civil rights for the non-religious as well as freedom to criticize religion. Being a writer, Harris has also written numerous articles in Huffington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Newsweek as well as in scientific journals such as Nature. He has written articles on Islam, Christianity, and religion in general.

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