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Freethought Radio

Guest: Prof. Barbara Forrest

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6577 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2012

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Perhaps it should be called the "Godless Particle," since the newly discovered Higgs boson was named after an atheist. This week we honor nonbelieving lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, and talk with Barbara Forrest, professor of philosophy, author ofCreationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design, and expert witness in the Dover (PA) "intelligent design" trial.

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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.

0:18.8

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

1:00.0

Oh, what a beautiful morning.

1:04.0

Oh, what a beautiful day.

1:10.0

I got a beautiful feeling.

1:13.7

Everything's going my way.

1:20.0

Hi, I'm Annie Larry Galore, and hello, all you beautiful blasphemers.

1:23.2

I have a wonderful feeling that in a couple minutes,

1:27.2

Dan is going to explain why we started Free Thought Radio with that song.

1:29.3

With another Richard Rogers song, that's right.

1:34.5

And I am Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist of the airwaves.

1:39.6

This is the July 7th, 2012 broadcast of Free Thought Radio. We produced the show, and we broadcast the show from the Mike 92.1, progressive talk in Madison, Wisconsin.

1:49.2

And we air on Saturday mornings in Madison, Wisconsin, and then other times during the weekend and other cities around the country.

1:56.1

And then a few days later, we podcast Free Thought Radio out to the entire material universe.

2:03.3

Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation,

2:07.8

a group that I am very proud to have had a role in forming with my mother, Anne Gaylor,

2:14.2

who is President Emerita.

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