Guest: Harvard Prof. Steven Pinker

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2008

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker, the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard, is the featured guest, discussing both his nontheistic views, and his concerns about the current administration's attacks against science in order to placate the religious right. "Theocracy Alert" discusses the Rev. Wright-Rev. Hagee fallout on the presidential campaigns. The hosts discuss the problem with Easter, and also pay tribute to nonbeliever Arthur C. Clarke, who died this week.

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio on Air America with your host, Dan Barker, and Annie Laurie Gaylor.
0:19.9	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:26.1	It's easy if you try.
0:32.6	No hell below us.
0:39.3	Above us only sky
0:42.3	Imagine all the people
0:47.3	living for today.
0:58.8	Imagine spring.
1:01.0	Happy Vernal Equinox to everyone.
1:02.3	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor.
1:05.6	We're broadcasting and streaming live from Air America.
1:09.0	And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist.
1:12.0	Free Thought Radio is a production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, where the country's largest organization of atheists and agnostics,
1:17.8	working hard, very hard to keep state and church separate. Find out about us at fFRF.org. We hope
1:25.7	someday you will join us.
1:32.2	We're delighted to have us our special guest today, Stephen Pinker, the evolutionary psychologist,
1:38.0	the Jones-Tun family, professor of psychology, bestselling author, and we'll talk with him in a bit about the current administration's war against science. Before we talk to Dr. Pinker and go to
1:44.0	the news portion of our show,
1:45.8	let's talk a little bit about Easter. And at the Freedom from Religion Foundation, we like
1:51.1	to celebrate this time of year two. And specifically, we are celebrating the 12th anniversary
1:56.9	of winning a federal court decision overturning Good Friday as a state holiday in the state of
2:02.5	Wisconsin, which is where we happen to be located. And that was one of our most popular lawsuits. Before that,
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