A Universe From Nothing
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2016
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Hear coverage of the “Jesus Lunch” protest at Middleton (WI) High School, which is being challenged by students and FFRF staff. Rebecca Markert updates us on FFRF’s new lawsuit against a Christian cross in a city park in Santa Clara, California. After hearing the Chad Mitchell Trio perform Yip Harburg’s “Rhymes for the Irreverent,” we talk with physicist, cosmologist, and author Lawrence M. Krauss about the “Origins Project” at Arizona State, and about his book A Universe From Nothing: Why There is Something Rather Than Nothing.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:14.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:17.0 | It's easy if you try |
| 0:23.6 | No hell below us |
| 0:29.6 | Above us only sky |
| 0:36.6 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:50.3 | Welcome to Freed Dot Radio. I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, a co-founder of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 0:57.2 | And I'm Dan Barker, not a co-founder, but a co-president of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 1:02.6 | your friendly neighborhood atheist. Annie Laurie and I are executive directors of FFRF. |
| 1:09.2 | Today is our April 23rd, 2016 broadcast of Freethought Radio, |
| 1:13.6 | which is produced in the Stephen Yule Friendly Atheist Studio in Freethought Hall, |
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