Robert Sapolsky

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2007

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Featured guest is bestselling science author, Stanford scientist and atheist Robert Sapolsky, with a lively discussion of primates, atheism, evolution and naturalistic explanations for the origin of religions. The show includes an update on the Foundation's faith-based challenge, going before the Supreme Court later this month, a song in homage to stem-cell research, and a look at fascinating freethought writers born in early February. The show is cohosted by Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, who jointly direct the Freedom From Religion Foundation. (MP3, 52 min, 23.5 MB)

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0:00.0	It's time to wake up. Stay tuned for Free Thought Radio, the only weekly Free Thought Radio broadcast anywhere.
0:10.0	A production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation featuring co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor.
0:16.0	Irreverent Views, News, Music, and and interviews. Imagine there's no heaven.
0:23.6	It's easy if you try.
0:28.6	No hell below us
0:40.3	Above us only sky
0:43.3	Imagine all the people
0:49.3	living for today
0:55.1	Hello all you in Faddles and Heathens.
0:59.6	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor for Free Thought Radio,
1:02.4	and I invite you to stay tuned for an hour of free thinking.
1:05.5	And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist.
1:09.5	We are broadcasting from Madison's Progressive Talk, the Mike 92.1, here in Madison, Wisconsin.
1:15.5	We're streaming live and podcasting.
1:18.0	This show, Free Thought Radio, is a production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation since 1978.
1:26.0	The Foundation is a national association.
1:29.5	Now with 8,400 members who are atheists and agnostics,
1:33.9	we've been working to keep state and church separate.
1:38.8	You know, I was thinking the other day,
1:40.2	if you were to take every minister, every rabbi, every imam, and every priest in the world, and stretch them out, lay them out on the ground in a straight line, you know what you could do?
1:56.4	What?
1:57.2	You could just leave them right there.
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