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Faith & Reason
  • Watch 'The Lord is Not on Trial Here Today' Documentary Trailer
    March 6, 2013
    | BillMoyers.com Staff
    Watch the trailer of Jay Rosenstein's documentary exploring the Supreme Court case that established the separation of church and state 65 years ago. The full version of the film is unfortunately no longer available.
  • Excerpt: The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought
    March 1, 2013
    | Susan Jacoby

    "It's hard to exaggerate how famous he was in the last two decades of the 19th century," our guest Susan Jacoby says of Robert Ingersoll, the subject of her new book, The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought. But Ingersoll, once a "mover and shaker" in the Republican Party, is largely forgotten today. Why? He spoke out in favor of the separation of church and state and promoted Darwin's theory of evolution, and because ...

  • Margaret Atwood on the Hunger for God
    March 1, 2013
    In this 2006 Moyers Moment, author Margaret Atwood, a self-described "strict agnostic," talks about the clear difference between atheism and agnosticism.
  • Richard Dawkins on the Truth of Evolution
    March 1, 2013
    In this 2004 Moyers Moment, author Richard Dawkins argues that evolution "is about as certain as anything we know."
  • Martin Amis on Being Agnostic
    March 1, 2013
    The novelist talks about his inner conflicts when it comes to his own agnosticism.
  • Four Perspectives on God, Atheism and Agnosticism
    March 1, 2013
    Collected thoughts from Martin Amis, Margaret Atwood, Richard Dawkins and Salman Rushdie on religious identity.
  • Fighting Creeping Creationism
    March 1, 2013 | Moyers & Company
    Zack Kopplin on fighting the onslaught of creationism and Susan Jacoby on the challenges of free thinking in America.
  • The History and Power of Free Thinking
    March 1, 2013 | Moyers & Company
    Susan Jacoby talks with Bill about the role secularism and intellectual curiosity have played throughout America’s history.
  • Keeping Creationism out of Public Classrooms
    March 1, 2013 | Moyers & Company
    19-year-old activist Zack Kopplin talks about fighting the creep of creationist curricula in public school science classes and publicly-funded vouchers.
  • Voucher Schools That Teach Creationism
    March 1, 2013
    | John Light
    Find out which schools are receiving taxpayer money to teach creationism.


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