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The courage of extending humanity: Gregory Sandstrom at TEDxLCC

1,470 views · Published 24 May 2012 · 18:25 · Indexed 4 October 2026

Channel: TEDx Talks · 2012 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Dr. Gregory Sandstrom is a Canadian professor working at the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences and the European Humanities University in Vilnius, Lithuania. He is a graduate of the Sociological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. His TEDx presentation speaks to the debate over innovation of ideas specifically regarding evolution, creation and intelligent design. He asks whether or not science can have the courage to work together with philosophy and religion or worldview to discover where humanity is headed and presents the idea of human extension as a way to promote human dignity, cooperation, altruism and flourishing instead of Darwinian dehumanisation, conflict and struggle.

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