Enlightenment Now
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2018
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Harvard cognitive psychologist, linguist and popular science author Steven Pinker (The Language Instinct, The Blank Slate, The Better Angels of Our Nature) gave his very first public talk about his new book, Enlightenment Now, at FFRF's 40th annual convention in Madison, Wisconsin. His optimistic talk is replayed in full on this week's show while Dan and Annie Laurie are traveling to the Central Florida Freethought Community's cruise to the Bahamas.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan 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 Imagine all the people |
| 0:40.3 | I'm Dan Barker This is the March 8th, 2018 edition of Freethought Radio. |
| 1:01.6 | Noah Gilfellon is our engineer today. He's producing this show in the Stephen Yule friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall. |
| 1:09.8 | Freethought Hall is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, |
| 1:15.0 | Wisconsin. |
| 1:15.6 | I'm doing the show solo today. |
| 1:17.5 | Today's show is pre-recorded so that Annie, Lori, and I could go on the Florida Free Thought |
| 1:24.2 | Society cruise to the Bahamas. Free Thought Radio, as you regular listeners know, |
| 1:31.1 | is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, and we work to keep |
| 1:35.6 | stayed in church separate and to educate the public about the views of non-believers. |
| 1:40.2 | And we hope today you will join us. |
| 1:43.7 | Stephen Pinker is the Harvard cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author of many books, |
| 1:49.8 | including the language instinct, how the mind works, the blank slate, sense of style, |
| 1:56.0 | and the better angels of our nature. |
| 1:58.4 | Today, we're going to hear Stephen Pinker speaking at FFRF's 40th annual |
| 2:02.9 | convention, the very first talk that he gave about his new book, Enlightenment Now. And |
| 2:09.4 | Enlightenment Now is really Enlightenment Wow. Pinker's optimistic book has shot to the top |
| 2:15.6 | of bestseller charts. So let's listen to his first speech |
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