The first conference speaker, in Beyond Belief session #6, asks “Can we be good without God?” And “Can we have ethics without religion?” If she fully answered either of these I didn’t hear it. I think you can be good without God. There are agnostics and atheists who live good lives and are good people. Everyone has an internal sense of right or wrong don’t they?

The one thing that really struck me was the questions from the audience. One of the audience members appeared irate that even the question was asked (“Can we be good without God?”). There was a PBS.org video inserted near the end of session #6 with Alan Alda (from “Mash” fame). But there was no audio.