0:00 - The Trisagion Prayers 1:43 - Prayer of Thanksgiving 2:40 - Prayer for Forgiveness 3:09 - The Nicene Creed 4:25 - Psalm 129 5:12 - Prayer for the End of the Day 6:01 - Benediction

0:00 - The Trisagion Prayers 1:43 - Prayer of Thanksgiving 2:40 - Prayer for Forgiveness 3:09 - The Nicene Creed 4:25 - Psalm 50 6:29 - Prayer for the End of the Day 7:17 - Benediction

0:00 - The Trisagion Prayers 1:46 - Morning Prayer to the Holy Trinity 2:35 - The Nicene Creed 3:52 - Psalm 62 5:10 - Ephesians 1, verses 1 - 9 6:13 - Mark 7, verses 24-30 7:14 - Intercessory Prayers 10:14 - Prayer for the Beginning of the Day 11:04 - Benediction 11:45 - Fr. Stephen de Young's commentary on Ephesians 1, verses 1 - 9

**Religion, Myth, Science, Truth** | an evening with Dr. Jordan B. Peterson *** Table of Contents: 0:00​ INTRO: PETERSON'S JOURNEY 9:45​ RELIGION: CROWD-CONTROL, NAIVE SCIENCE, OR NEITHER? 10:08​ "They're straw man arguments" 11:45​ Multiple motivational systems, different levels of thinking 13:32​ Fundamental presuppositions 14:13​ Dawkins vs. Christianity: like a "smart 13 year old boy" 14:44​ SCIENTISTS MISREADING RELIGION 15:52​ Different systems of thought, different purposes 16:00​ More than one basic assumption is possible 17:13​ ENTER: DOMINANCE HIERARCHIES 17:19​ What's real is what's persistent across time 17:33​ Dominance hierarchies and lobsters 17:58​ We're evolutionarily adapted to hierarchies 18:14​ HIERARCHIES, RELIGIOUS THINKING, AND SUBJECTIVITY 18:42​ "Being" as not reducible to material reality 19:12​ The road to nihilism and authoritarianism 19:57​ DETERMINING THE TRUTH OF A THEORY 20:07​ Newton or Darwin? Choose one. You can't have both. 20:20​ Nitzche's "Truth serves life" is a Darwinian idea 20:38​ No idea if our knoweldge will help us survive over deep time 20:50​ Answer to: "But look what we've built with it" 21:20​ Crossing Ebola and Smallpox: some science is clearly insane 22:30​ Check your assumptions about reality 23:45​ Darwinism: truth is what enables survival within chaos, period. 25:03​ Dawkins is a Newtonian not a Darwinian 26:09​ Reductionism leaves things out. This has consequences. 27:27​ The pragmatic problem: truth for what? 28:09​ DEEP DARWINISM & RELIGION 28:15​ Religion as evolved knowledge about action 29:40​ American Pragmatist philosophers: the true Darwinians 30:17​ Godel, the stock market and reality 31:02​ TRUTH AS ACTION 31:44​ Truth from the bottom up: lobsters, wolves, humans 34:27​ Ethics: evolved patterns in dominance hierarchies 39:23​ Dogs, chimps and humans: hierarchy navigators 44:45​ From dominance hierarchies to archetypes: ancient Egypt 52:36​ The soul 55:50​ Jung on Christianity, truth and speech 59:07​ Truth versus the lie 1:00:52​ THE INTELLECT 1:00:52​ The totalitarian intellect 1:02:43​ Have you made thinking your God? 1:03:38​ Attention trumps thinking 1:04:11​ EVOLUTIONARY ROOTS OF WESTERN RELIGION 1:04:33​ Christ as a metahero 1:04:43​ The deep roots of myth 1:07:00​ Chaos monsters 1:08:55​ Myth as behavioural truth 1:09:37​ "Darwin trumps Newton" 1:10:02​ "Dawkins is a rationalist...not a darwinian" 1:10:07​ Darwinian time, Darwinian truth 1:13:57​ Mesopotamian myth as successful behaviour blueprint 1:17:36​ FROM NATURE TO HERO MYTHOLOGY 1:19:33​ Religious stories model being as a field for action 1:21:13​ Our religious task 1:21:47​ Religion as hero mythology 1:22:30​ "You...don't know that you know the story." 1:23:58​ PIAGET AND PRE-RATIONAL MORALITY 1:25:16​ We learn to act before we learn the rules 1:26:18​ Moses the Judge: observer of emergent moral patterns 1:27:54​ "Opiate of the masses" as naive industrial era thinking 1:28:43​ METAPHORICAL THOUGHT 1:29:11​ Hyperactive agency detection module: it goes deeper 1:31:00​ The brain as archetype detection organ 1:32:08​ Women are nature 1:33:48​ Metaphor, myth and science 1:36:00​ SCIENCE AND MORAL TRUTH 1:37:52​ Are all scientists devoted to the truth? 1:39:44​ How do we judge if science is ethical? 1:42:57​ Evil as archetypically real 1:44:06​ The reality of good and evil 1:45:09​ Science and mythology: which is embedded in which? 1:48:17​ EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY AND DEEP TIME 1:49:13​ RELIGIOUS METAPHYSICS: OPTIONAL? 1:49:20​ Is God an old man with a beard in the sky? 1:51:12​ Hurricane Katrina, corruption and poverty 1:52:12​ The significance of the bible 1:53:43​ The genius of the sacrifice 1:55:50​ INTERLUDE: TRIANGULATING MEANING 1:58:02​ END OF RELIGION? 1:58:02​ On new atheists' claims of a secular rational future 1:58:29​ On new age spirituality 1:58:49​ New atheist rationalist optimism so absurd it must be motivated 1:59:18​ REDUCING RELIGION VS. EXPANDING EVOLUTION 1:59:40​ "[Jungian alternative]...is terrifying [for people]" 1:59:57​ "[Jung's work]...puts enlightenment thinkers to shame" 2:00:17​ "Which ideas have you? ... We're like playthings of the gods" 2:01:09​ JUNG: STUDYING INFORMATION, NOT MATTER 2:02:23​ "If you study religion properly, it'll demolish your personality" 2:08:16​ METAPHOR VS REALITY: NOT OBVIOUS 2:10:11​ Ancients: phenomenologists, not scientists 2:12:24​ Religion as spatial 2:13:24​ HUMANS: EFFICIENT COMPLEXITY MANAGERS 2:13:48​ Reality in terms of resolution 2:15:52​ There's lots worse than death 2:16:46​ On Becker's "The Denial of Death": smart but mistaken 2:19:40​ Death's not the problem, it's complexity 2:21:06​ THE MULTICULTURAL DIMENSION 2:27:35​ FROM THEORY TO ACTION 2:28:40​ Fixing what bugs you 2:29:30​ Overcoming the lie 2:31:54​ Peterson's experience with truth 2:34:45​ The most powerful thing we can do