Are Religion and Science Compatible?
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2016
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
FFRF stops an Ohio high-school teacher from preaching in class, removes a bible verse from a Texas school district webpage, files a Minnesota friend-of-the-court brief supporting "death with dignity," and files a new lawsuit challenging censorship of FFRF's freethought high-school essay scholarships by a California school district. After hearing Josh White singing freethinking songwriter Yip Harburg's song "Free And Equal Blues," we talk with biologist Jerry Coyne about "Faith Versus Fact."
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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. |
| 0:13.5 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:20.1 | It's easy if you try |
| 0:22.6 | No hell below us |
| 0:29.6 | Above us only sky |
| 0:35.6 | Imagine all the people Above us only sky Hello, I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. |
| 0:52.3 | Maybe you're taking a respite from taxes this weekend to tune in |
| 0:57.1 | Free Thought Radio. Welcome to Radio for the rest of us. Boy, am I taking a break. That's the one thing |
| 1:02.9 | every year I hate to do, but I do it because I think we should pay our taxes, obviously. But boy, |
| 1:07.6 | what a job. Got them all done. I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood |
| 1:12.1 | atheist of the airwaves, and this is the April 16th, 2016 edition of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:21.5 | The show is produced in the brand new Stephen Yule Friendly Atheist Studio at Free Thought Hall in Madison, Wisconsin, |
| 1:31.0 | which is the national office of the Freedom from a Legion Foundation. |
| 1:36.4 | After we produced the show, the show first broadcasts and streams on progressive talk, |
| 1:42.6 | the Mike 92.1 in Madison, Wisconsin, Saturday mornings at 11, |
| 1:47.8 | and then later rebroadcast at midnight. And our engineer today is Buzz Kemper. |
| 1:54.2 | Steve's on vacation somewhere, and Buzz is in there filling in. They're both equally talented in the |
| 1:59.9 | recording studio. |
| 2:01.8 | Free That Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 2:05.6 | which works to educate the public about non-theism, |
| 2:08.8 | and to keep religion out of government, |
| 2:11.1 | and that is an endless and tough job. |
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