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• Is Believing In God Evolutionarily Advantageous?

From the NPR All Things Considered The Human Edge series about how we evolved.  This audio segment explores how religious beliefs helped us become who we are today.  Does believing in god confer and hereditary advantage?

• Thomas Campbell… My Big Toe

Physicist and consciousness researcher, Thomas Campbell, discusses the nature of reality in terms of consciousness -- this video logically and scientifically explains the normal and the paranormal, mind and matter, physics and metaphysics, philosophy and theology.

• Atheism vs theism debate with Christopher Hitchens and Jay Richards 

Identified as an exponent of the "new atheism" movement, Christopher Hitchens, author and journalist and professor at New School, describes himself as an anti-theist and believer in the philosophical values of the Enlightenment (Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Hitchens).  Jay Richards is an intelligent design advocate and research fellow at Princeton Theological Seminary. 

• Life that doesn’t end with death

In Tana Toraja, weddings and births aren’t the social gathering that knit society together. In this part of Indonesia, big, raucous funerals form the center of social life. In this TED talk, anthropologist Kelli Swazey takes a look at this culture, in which the bodies of dead relatives are cared for even years after they have passed. While it sounds strange to Western sensibilities, she says, this could actually be a truer reflection of the fact that relationships with loved ones don’t simply end when breathing does.