{"id":5430,"date":"2011-10-27T11:08:52","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T16:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2011-10-27T11:08:52","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T16:08:52","slug":"the-atheists-guide-to-reality-alex-rosenberg-on-atheists-talk-139-october-30-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/27\/the-atheists-guide-to-reality-alex-rosenberg-on-atheists-talk-139-october-30-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Atheist\u2019s Guide to Reality\u201d Alex Rosenberg on Atheists Talk #139, October 30, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Many religions claim to hold the answers to life\u2019s big questions: What is the meaning of life? Why are we here? From where do we get our morals? Some say it\u2019s all because of God, and that leaves us atheists throwing our hands in the air.<\/p>\n<p>But now Alex Rosenberg has written a book just for us. In The Atheist\u2019s Guide to Reality: Enjoying Life Without Illusions, Dr. Rosenberg walks us through the science that succeeds in providing these answers without having to fall back on supernatural explanations. He celebrates scientism, embraces \u201cnice nihilism\u201d and takes us on a fast-paced, wild journey through the physics, chemistry and biology that explain our past, present and future. He shows how science influences our politics, ethics, and how we think about ourselves and the world around us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/minnesotaatheists.org\/news-and-media\/podcast\/665-alex-rosenberg\">read the rest here and tune in!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many religions claim to hold the answers to life\u2019s big questions: What is the meaning of life? Why are we here? From where do we get our morals? Some say it\u2019s all because of God, and that leaves us atheists throwing our hands in the air. But now Alex Rosenberg has written a book just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/27\/the-atheists-guide-to-reality-alex-rosenberg-on-atheists-talk-139-october-30-2011\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201cThe Atheist\u2019s Guide to Reality\u201d Alex Rosenberg on Atheists Talk #139, October 30, 2011<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1pA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}