Creationism USA

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Guest: Adam Laats. FFRF attorney Chris Line tells us how FFRF is combatting religious indoctrination in Alabama schools. We parse Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's disturbing remarks denigrating nonbelievers during a Notre Dame "Religious Liberty" speech he gave in Rome last week. Then we speak with Professor Adam Laats about his new book Creationism USA: Bridging the Impasse on Teaching Evolution.

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0:52.5	Welcome to Freeth Thought Radio.
0:55.4	I'm Annie Laurie Galore and happy August.
0:59.2	It's a hot month and we have some hot news.
1:02.3	And I'm co-host of Free Thought Radio, Dan Barker.
1:07.3	Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
1:14.1	This is the August 4th, 2022 episode of Free Thought Radio. Grant Blashka, with Audio for the Arts as our engineer in the Stephen Ool-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall.
1:20.2	Free Thought Hall is the national office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin.
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1:32.5	which is a non-profit, non-profit, spelled both ways, with over 38,000 members in North America
1:40.1	who are personally free from religion and who care about keeping religion out of government.
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2:00.4	Our guest in the second half of today's show will be Adam Lats.
2:04.8	He's the author of the new book, Creationism USA, bridging the impasse on teaching evolution.
2:14.2	Today we are also going to talk about the alarming, disturbing speech that Supreme Court Justice Alito gave at the Notre Dame Religious Liberty Conference in Rome in July.
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