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Nick Spencer debating Steven Pinker on The Big Conversation

Nick Spencer debating Steven Pinker on The Big Conversation

Nick will feature in Justin Brierley’s ‘The Big Conversation’ alongside Stephen Pinker and other thinkers, on what it means to be human.

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The Big Conversation is a unique video series from Unbelievable?, featuring world–class thinkers across the Christian and atheist communities. It explores science, faith, philosophy and what it means to be human.

The series launches on 9th June 2018 with a debate between Jordan B Peterson and Susan Blackmore.

On 23rd June, watch Theos’ Nick Spencer debate with Steven Pinker. Nick reviewed Steven’s book Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress here.

Other upcoming debates will include:

Derren Brown & Rev Richard Coles

Daniel Dennett & Keith Ward

John Lennox & Michael Ruse

Peter Singer & Andy Bannister

 Image from Wikimedia Commons.

Nick Spencer

Nick Spencer

Nick is Senior Fellow at Theos. He is the author of a number of books and reports, including Magisteria: the entangled histories of science and religion (Oneworld, 2023), The Political Samaritan: how power hijacked a parable (Bloomsbury, 2017), The Evolution of the West (SPCK, 2016) and Atheists: The Origin of the Species (Bloomsbury, 2014). He is host of the podcast Reading Our Times.

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Posted 24 May 2018

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