Special Guest: Matthew Chapman, Darwin's Great-Great Grandson

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🗓️ 9 February 2008

⏱️ 38 minutes

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In honor of Darwin's birthday (Feb. 12), Freethought Radio interviews film director, screenwriter and author Matthew Chapman, the great-great grandson of Charles Darwin. Chapman's book, "Forty Days and Forty Nights," is a personal report on the Dover "intellligent design" trial, and "Trial of a Monkey: An Accidental Memoir" recounts his pilgrimage to Dayton, Tenn., home of the Scopes trial.

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1:13.2	And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. A man and his son were at the beach,
1:21.1	and the little boy came running up and said, Daddy, Daddy, Daddy, come and look what I found.
1:25.6	You took him over, and there was a dead seagull on the sand.
1:29.1	And the little boy said, what happened, Daddy?
1:30.7	What happened?
1:31.3	And the man said, oh, well, that seagull died and went to heaven.
1:36.9	And the little boy looked down and said,
1:39.1	well, then did God throw him back?
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