GOD: Bad Character, Bad Designer
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2016
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
This week we celebrate the birthday of Charles Darwin and the 90th birthday poet Philip Appleman (a Darwin scholar). Annie Laurie interviews Dan about his best-selling new book, GOD: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction (Foreword by Richard Dawkins). Then Dr. Abby Hafer champions Darwin’s ideas by discussing her delightful new book, The Not-So-Intelligent Designer: Why Evolution Explains the Human Body and Intelligent Design Does Not.
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