{"id":582,"date":"2009-05-31T12:37:44","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T19:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/?p=582"},"modified":"2009-06-05T11:21:12","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T18:21:12","slug":"21-nick-fiedler-hopeful-skeptic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/?p=582","title":{"rendered":"#21: Nick Fiedler, Hopeful Skeptic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[chuck]In this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/podcasts\/fiedler.m4a\"><b>interesting conversation<\/b><\/a>, we discuss the concept of &#8220;hopeful skepticism&#8221; with <a href=\"http:\/\/thehopefulskeptic.com\/blog\/\"><b>Nick Fiedler<\/b><\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/thenickandjoshpodcast.com\/\"><b>Nick and Josh Podcast<\/b><\/a>, who coined the term. We also range across faith, belief, rationality, and the craziness of Mormonism.<\/p>\n<p>Every time I talk to rational believers, I get just a little more hopeful about the future of our species. Fortunately I have found the cure for that hope: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblelandstudios.com\/nuke\/modules.php?name=News&#038;file=article&#038;sid=63&#038;mode=thread&#038;order=0&#038;thold=0\"><b>creationist tripe<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[chuck]In this interesting conversation, we discuss the concept of &#8220;hopeful skepticism&#8221; with Nick Fiedler of the Nick and Josh Podcast, who coined the term. We also range across faith, belief, rationality, and the craziness of Mormonism. Every time I talk to rational believers, I get just a little more hopeful about the future of our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-philosophy","category-podcasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":611,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions\/611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}