Guest: Professor Ronald L. Numbers, author, The Creationists
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2014
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Radio Valentine to Susan B., Darwin
"Celebrating Darwin, exposing the creationists"
In the news: Annie Laurie and Andrew discuss FFRF’s new creationism law FAQ, Andrew’s complaint to New York officials over infant endangerment, deaths from ultra-Orthodox circumcision ritual. Birthdates honored: Charles Darwin, Galileo, Jeremy Bentham and Susan B. Anthony. Song: “It’s Only Natural,” Dan’s jazz love ballad inspired by Richard Dawkins’ book, “Unweaving the Rainbow,” paying homage to love, natural selection and Darwin, beautifully sung by Susan Hofer. Guest: the erudite and entertaining Professor Ronald L. Numbers, University of Wisconsin,-Madison, author of the definitive history, The Creationists.
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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. |
| 0:19.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:21.6 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:27.6 | No hell below us, above us only sky. |
| 0:43.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:58.3 | Happy birthday, Susan B. Anthony. |
| 1:00.6 | I'm Annie Laurie Galore. |
| 1:05.6 | My co-host, Dan Barker, is still on the road as this is being recorded during a World Wound Free Thought PR campaign on the West Coast, including three debates. |
| 1:10.4 | Dan will rejoin the show next week. |
| 1:12.9 | And welcome to the February 15th, 2014 broadcast of Free Thought Radio, produced at the Mike 92.1, |
| 1:19.7 | Madison, Wisconsin, streaming live from this station on IHeart Radio, broadcasting also in five |
| 1:26.2 | other cities. |
| 1:32.3 | FFRF produces this weekly show, the Freedom from Religion Foundation, which is also a podcast, |
| 1:37.3 | and as you know, we're a national state church watchdog, the largest association of freethinkers, atheists, and agnostics in North America. |
| 1:40.0 | Why don't you become our 20,000th 101st member today at FFRF.org? |
| 1:48.3 | And in the second, I'm going to bring on one of FFRF's five staff attorneys, Andrew Seidel, |
| 1:54.1 | who's going to talk about the state of the law on creationism. |
| 1:57.9 | And also, we hope time for a dicey issue regarding ritualistic circumcision that |
| 2:02.9 | he's just written a major complaint about to New York State officials. And then Andrew and I will |
| 2:08.6 | have the pleasure of interviewing Professor Ronald L. Numbers, Hilldale Professor Emeritus of the |
| 2:14.9 | History of Science and Medicine here at the University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 2:19.3 | and Professor Numbers happens to be author of a definitive history book, The Creationists, |
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