Laurence Krauss - The Origins Project: Why Religion Is The Death Of Intelligence

00:00 | Trailer
02:42 Brian’s thoughts on the episode
03:20 Brian’s introduction
04:11 Podcasting with guests of diverse expertise using the same team as made The Unbelievers film
07:03 Concern for Science colleagues in UK with the threat of Brexit approaching
11:55 The dark side of climate change and a conundrum when the ice sheet melts into the sea in Greenland
29:46 The most effective way to govern people is to make them afraid and how to counteract this
33:20 Humans are perhaps just a tiny blip of insignificance on the planet
35:35 Lawrence is impressed by teenage environmental activist Greta Thunberg
41:00 Existential global threats
48:01 Why, religiously speaking, Lawrence is now an apatheist
Religion poisons everything
1:00:52 What Lawrence thinks of the flat earth movement
1:03:04 What is new and exciting in the world of scientific discoveries and why science news is important
1:14:44 Need for everyone to learn the scientific process of sceptical enquiry in a pseudo democratic society
1:27:23 Being a politician automatically limits you, but Donald Trump discards the science for his own ends
1:29:33 You don’t have to be a mathematical wizard to be a great scientist
1:31:37 Would Lawrence ever teach again
His thoughts on effect of political correctness upon campuses
1:40:03 Does he think that ASU was fair to him or did they succumb to the political correctness of the time
1:46:28 What the prospects for the next ten years are for Lawrence
1:48:50 What scares him
1:50:17 What we would be surprised to learn about Lawrence Krauss
1:52:47 What keeps him awake at night
1:54:12 Success secrets
1:54:53 … Phone call to the 20 years old Lawrence Krauss
1:56:04 Best advice he ever received
2:02:58 Advice to the 20 years-old watching
2:03:26 Brian’s summing up.