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Robert Wright
Author, “The Evolution of God”
Robert Wright is a journalist, scholar, and author of several best-selling books about science, evolutionary psychology, history, religion, and game theory, including "The Evolution of God," "Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny," "The Moral Animal," and "Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information." He is a visiting scholar at The University of Pennsylvania and Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation. He is also the co-founder and Editor in Chief of Bloggingheads.tv, a current events "diavlog" featured in The New York Times and elsewhere.
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Internet life tends to wrap us up in our own narrow interests and points of view. The “Bloggingheads” editor-in-chief believes that this can change.
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Much like road rage, a retribution-based foreign policy represents an evolutionary impulse poorly suited to the modern world.
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Failed strategy decisions have left the “Nonzero” author pessimistic about the outcome of the war on terror. What’s needed, he says, is a reprise of FDR’s “fear itself” speech.
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“Reconciliation is possible” between science and faith, though it will mean defining the latter by its moral truths and not its supernatural claims.
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The “Evolution of God” author weighs the argument that human moral progress might depend on abandoning religion.
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As people of different faiths find cooperation more beneficial than war, a kind of secular salvation may be possible.
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As Christianity progressed, Christ’s moral teachings became sanitized and polished. Robert Wright thinks that’s probably a good thing.