John Shook
Center for Inquiry — Amherst, NY
Dr. John Shook (PhD, Philosophy) is Vice President for Education and Research and Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Inquiry Transnational in Amherst, N.Y., and Research Associate in Philosophy at the University at Buffalo, since 2006. He has authored and edited more than a dozen books about naturalism, pragmatism, and humanism. He travels for lectures and debates across the United States and around the world.
Here, John debates William Lane Craig on the existence of God:
- Critical thinking
- Evolution, creationism, and intelligent design
- Humanistic and naturalistic ethics
- Philosophy of theism and atheism
- Psychology of religious belief
- Religion and politics
- Religious liberty, and the civil rights of the non-religious
- Science and pseudoscience
- Science and religion
- Secular humanism
- Separation of church and state
- The Center for Inquiry
- The existence of God
- The humanist and skeptic movements
- The scientific and naturalistic worldview
