"Monkey Girl": The Dover "ID" Case

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🗓️ 21 April 2007

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Tune in to hear Pulitizer Prize-winning journalist and author Edward Humes discuss his new book, "Monkey Girl," on Freethought Radio. The book chronicles the saga of the creationist trial in Dover, Penn., resulting in the recent landmark federal decision against "intelligent design" instruction in public schools. The show also includes discussion of timely state/church topics, including this week's antiabortion decision by the Catholic-dominated Supreme Court, and the efficacy of prayer in the face of gun violence. "Freethinkers Almanac" looks at the unorthodoxy of Shakespeare, born on April 23. Freethought Radio is co-hosted by Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor. (MP3, 51 min, 23 MB)

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0:00.0	It's time for Free Thought Radio, a production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation,
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0:25.9	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:32.6	It's easy if you try.
1:01.0	No hell below us Above us Only sky Imagine all the people living for today. Hello, friends and free thinkers and welcome to Free Thought Radio.
1:07.0	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor and I invite you to stay tuned to the next hour, totally free from religion.
1:14.6	We're broadcasting from Madison's Progressive Talk, the Mike 92.1.
1:18.9	We're streaming live from Madison, Wisconsin, and we're podcasting.
1:22.1	And I'm Dan Barker, co-host of Free Thought Radio.
1:26.0	I'm your friendly neighborhood atheist, a former minister who saw the light.
1:32.6	Free Thought Radio is brought to you by the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
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1:41.2	Our members are atheists and agnostics and some other religious skeptics who believe
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1:57.5	nationwide and we think soon we'll be turning over to that 10,000 mark.
2:01.8	So we're going to have a party or something? I don't know. A little celebration. Our guest today
2:06.2	will be Edward Humes, who's a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, and he's author of the new
2:11.4	nonfiction book about a fascinating trial in Dover, Pennsylvania, which you might remember was in 2005. It was dubbed
2:19.3	Scopes 2, in which the community school had mandated intelligent design instruction in the
2:25.7	schools. The trial is one of those fascinating moments in the science versus faith controversy,
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