8.16: Evolution as a Religion—Explained

What had Mary Midgley so incredibly angry in the 1980s, and what did she do about it?

• Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene
• “Superman” and Friedrich Nietzsche
• David Hume
• Immanuel Kant
• The other book Chris is reading on politics &c. currently: Politics and the Order of Love, Eric Gregory

Here’s another great cover of the book from the ’80s!

• October (8.18 and 8.19): Contact, Carl Sagan
• November (8.20 and 8.21): Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest, Zeynep Tufecki. You can also download it from Tufecki’s website as a PDF.

• “Acquainted with the Night” by Ezra Feinberg. Used by permission, please don’t use without permission.
• “Winning Slowly Theme” by Chris Krycho. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0, meaning you can do whatever you want with this music… as long as you share it for others to likewise do what they want.

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