Guest: John Allen Paulos

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2008

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Freethought Radio talks with Temple University professor John Allen Paulos, author of the bestseller "Innumeracy," about his new and amusing book debunking belief in a god, "Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up." The show also dissects what's wrong with a National Day of Prayer.

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio on Air America with your host, Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor.
0:19.6	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:26.1	It's easy if you try.
0:32.6	No hell below us.
0:38.3	Above us only sky
0:41.3	Imagine all the people
0:46.3	living for today Greetings, oh, godless ones, and hello to all our irreverent or maybe just open-minded listeners.
1:04.2	I'm Annie Lord Egelor.
1:06.1	I'm an atheist, and Free Thought Radio is produced by the Freedom from Religion Foundation,
1:10.4	the largest national association of atheists and agnostics, free thinkers,
1:16.0	and we also work to keep government free from religion as required by our secular constitution.
1:21.4	And I'm here too. Dan, I'm back. I'm Dan Barker. I'm back from another debate tour.
1:26.8	I'm your friendly neighborhood atheist.
1:28.8	Free Thought Radio is broadcasting and streaming live from Air America. And as Annie LaRoy told you,
1:34.9	the Freedom from Religion Foundation is a membership organization. And we do hope someday you will
1:40.4	join us.
1:41.5	I guess today will be the best-selling author of enumeracy, John Alan Paulos.
1:47.3	We'll be talking with him about his new and highly entertaining book.
1:51.2	It's called Irreligion.
1:53.7	A mathematician explains why the arguments for God just don't add up.
1:59.5	And speaking of mathematics, this topic reminds me of a famous passage from Robert Green Ingersoll,
2:06.3	the 19th century's best known and best-loved infidel.
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