Guest: Matthew Chapman, Author, Filmmaker & Darwin's Great-great Grandson
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2009
⏱️ 38 minutes
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& Updates on FFRF's "Praise Darwin" Billboard
In honor of Charles Darwin's bicentennial birthday this past week, the hosts will interview Darwin's great-great grandson Matthew Chapman, author of Forty Days and Forty Nights, and Trials of the Monkey. Also featured: Susan Hofer singing the jazz love song and ode to science, "It's Only Natural." The hosts will update the Foundation's campaign to take pro-Darwin billboards to sites where the Dogma Versus Darwin debate still rages! Listen for an entertaining clip of local coverage of the "Praise Darwin: Evolve Beyond Belief" billboard in Dover, Penn. (site of the intelligent design controversy).
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| 1:49.9 | And we're very pleased that I guess this week, which is a historic week marking the bicentennial of the birth of Charles Darwin, will be the great great grandson of Charles Darwin, the author, filmmaker, and science promoter, |
| 2:02.9 | Matthew Chapman. |
| 2:03.6 | And we'll hear the jazz singer Susan Hofer, her rendition of the song, It's Only Natural, |
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