Uploaded September 2015 | Updated September 2026, 6 hours ago
Introduction to 14-part 4.5-hour “Zerotheism for Kids” lecture:
eoht.info/page/Zerotheism+for+Kids
● 0:38-1:34 | Bible view vs Reaction view
● 1:48-5:20 | Experiment: Ball and Ring
● 3:45-4:18 | Fermions and Bosons
● 5:11-10:00 | Hypatia-Erasmus Teaching Method
● 6:23-6:53 | Right and Wrong
● 7:13-7:59 | Right and Wrong (Good and Evil Coupling)
● 8:25-10:49 | Evolution (Molecular Evolution Table)
● 10:50-13:14 | Hypatia-Erasmus Teaching Method
● 13:15-13:25 | Zerotheist
● 13:26-17:20 | Three Reasons Not to Believe in God: Mythology, Evolution, and Determinism
● 17:22-18:10 | Experiment: Domino Determinism
● 18:11-20:54 | Schopenhauerian Will, Soul, God, and Gibbs Energy
Talk given in Chicago on 10 Aug 2015 by Libb Thims, and Atheism Reviews co-host Thor, to six kids, aged 2 to 11 (girl 2, boy 6, girl 7, boy 9, girl 10, boy 11), centered around the following five introductory slides:
flickr.com/photos/134299206@N02/albums/72157657057764675
A 21st century version of Wilhelm Ostwald’s famous “radical atheism” monism stylized 1910 Monastic Sunday Sermons:
eoht.info/page/Monistic+Sunday+Sermons
This segment being an introduction to the Hypatia-Erasmus teaching method:
“Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies. To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he or she be in after years relieved of them. The reason for this is that a superstition is so intangible a thing that you cannot get at it to refute it.”
— Hypatia (400AD)
“You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.”
— Desiderius Erasmus (1497)
Namely, teach children “fables as fables, myths and myths” and give them the “best information first”.
Introduction to 14-part 4.5-hour “Zerotheism for Kids” lecture:
eoht.info/page/Zerotheism+for+Kids
● 0:38-1:34 | Bible view vs Reaction view
● 1:48-5:20 | Experiment: Ball and Ring
● 3:45-4:18 | Fermions and Bosons
● 5:11-10:00 | Hypatia-Erasmus Teaching Method
● 6:23-6:53 | Right and Wrong
● 7:13-7:59 | Right and Wrong (Good and Evil Coupling)
● 8:25-10:49 | Evolution (Molecular Evolution Table)
● 10:50-13:14 | Hypatia-Erasmus Teaching Method
● 13:15-13:25 | Zerotheist
● 13:26-17:20 | Three Reasons Not to Believe in God: Mythology, Evolution, and Determinism
● 17:22-18:10 | Experiment: Domino Determinism
● 18:11-20:54 | Schopenhauerian Will, Soul, God, and Gibbs Energy
Talk given in Chicago on 10 Aug 2015 by Libb Thims, and Atheism Reviews co-host Thor, to six kids, aged 2 to 11 (girl 2, boy 6, girl 7, boy 9, girl 10, boy 11), centered around the following five introductory slides:
flickr.com/photos/134299206@N02/albums/72157657057764675
A 21st century version of Wilhelm Ostwald’s famous “radical atheism” monism stylized 1910 Monastic Sunday Sermons:
eoht.info/page/Monistic+Sunday+Sermons
This segment being an introduction to the Hypatia-Erasmus teaching method:
“Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies. To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he or she be in after years relieved of them. The reason for this is that a superstition is so intangible a thing that you cannot get at it to refute it.”
— Hypatia (400AD)
“You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.”
— Desiderius Erasmus (1497)
Namely, teach children “fables as fables, myths and myths” and give them the “best information first”.
