I have been watching many of the talks from TED recently. I have enjoyed many of them, but the two below left me cold. One is by Rick Warren, a pastor and author of “Living a Purpose Driven Life”. The other is by the noted philosopher/atheist Dan Dennett who rebuts Rick Warren’s book and talk.

These talks sum up the battle between Modernists (Dennett) and Traditionalists (Warren) as described in Anderson and Ray’s “Cultural Creatives“. As a Cultural Creative, I find these arguments to be entirely missing the point. Science isn’t the knowledge of all things any more than religion. Continuing this battle does not move the human race forward on any scale. If you are wondering what in the world I am talking about, get Anderson and Ray’s book.