Guests: Donald C. Johanson, "Lucy" Discoverer & John Whiteside, Las Vegas freethought activist

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2009

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Scientist and "Lucy" discoverer Donald C. Johanson will talk about his atheism, evolution and how he feels about "Ardi" displacing "Lucy." FFRF'er John Whiteside will talk about why he underwrote a billboard blitz in Las Vegas for the Foundation, featuring 10 billboards variously reading: "Imagine No Religion," "Beware of Dogma" and "Praise Darwin: Evolve Beyond Belief."

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio on Air America with your hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor.
0:19.8	Imagine there's no heaven
0:22.4	It's easy if you try No hell below us?
0:41.9	Above us only sky.
0:54.4	Imagine all the people living for today.
0:58.4	Hello all you godless infidels.
1:00.9	This is Free Thought Radio, and I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor.
1:03.9	And hello all you pagan primates.
1:07.4	I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist.
1:13.4	Later in today's show, we'll be talking with the discoverer of the primate fossil, the discoverer of Lucy, the scientist and atheist Donald C. Johansson. And we'll also be talking
1:20.0	with a free thinker in Las Vegas about why he underwrote the costs of a mini-blitz of
1:25.5	free-thinking billboards in Las Vegas.
1:28.3	Free Thought Radio is broadcasting over many Air America stations and streams from
1:32.5	airamerica.com on weekends.
1:35.6	This show is for the weekend of October the 24th, 2009.
1:40.7	The show is produced by the Freedom from Religion Foundation, a national organization of atheists and agnostics, working to keep state and church separate.
1:49.6	And we'll talk about our newest lawsuit later in today's show.
1:52.1	And we also work to educate the public about the views of nonbelievers.
1:56.1	So before we get to that lawsuit and to our interviews, Dan, I want to just quickly ask you about the debate that you did on Monday in Bloomington, Indiana, where you had a rather unusual comment by your pastor opponent.
2:08.2	Well, this is actually the second time it happened, but I debated a local minister, Dan Waugh in Bloomington, Indiana to a pretty packed out crowd of a pretty balanced crowd of free thinkers and believers.
2:18.3	This was on campus.
2:19.2	On campus at Indiana University in Bloomington.
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