Guest: Neil Shubin, discoverer of Tiktaalik and author

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2013

⏱️ 43 minutes

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"We are all star stuff." After discussing FFRF legal complaints in South Dakota and Arkansas, we take up on Carl Sagan's famous words by talking with paleontologist Neil Shubin, discoverer of Tiktaalik and author of the bestselling Your Inner Fish, whose newest book is The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People.

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Irreverent Views, News, Music, and interviews. Imagine there's no heaven.
0:21.6	It's easy if you try.
0:27.6	No hell below us
0:41.3	Above us only sky
0:47.3	Imagine all the people
0:53.3	living for today.
0:59.5	Get off your knees and start thinking.
1:03.0	The answers will be found right here on earth.
1:07.7	Unbow your head and open your eyes.
1:10.2	Get off your knees and get to work. Get off your knees and get to work. I'm Dan Barker,
1:17.0	and this is Free Thought Radio, produced by the Freedom from Religion Foundation. And as usual,
1:23.5	we are complaining about city councils that are opening with prayer,
1:30.9	and our advice to them is to get off your knees, open your eyes.
1:33.8	The answers will be found right here on earth.
1:36.2	And I'm doing it solo today.
1:40.5	Annie Laurie, my co-host and co-president, is not here.
1:42.6	She's actually, as we're recording the show,
1:46.4	flying back from Vermont Law School,
1:51.3	where she gave a lecture this week about separation of state and church.
1:59.0	This is the February 23rd, 2013 broadcast of Free Thought Radio, and our show today is produced at as always and broadcasts from the
2:03.8	Mike 92.1 in Madison, Wisconsin. So it's just me and Ben in the studio today. Ben Yonke. Did I say
2:10.1	your name right? Yonk. Yonk? Okay, J-A-H-N-K-E. Yeah, okay, Ben Yonke, who's substituting for Dave McCam.
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