It’s always a great pleasure to chat with Annie Laurie Gaylor and Dan Barker, co-Presidents of an organization I much admire: the Freedom From Religion Foundation. About ten days ago I did an interview with them on Freethought Radio about my new book, an interview described here:
Faith vs. Fact
Jerry CoyneOn the first half of the show, we talk with evolutionary geneticist Jerry Coyne (author of the best seller Why Evolution is True) about his new book, Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible. Then we hear excerpts of Chris Johnson’s new film, A Better Life: An Exploration of Joy & Meaning in a World Without God.
It was broadcast on Friday, and was posted last night. You can get free access to the podcast, which also includes a chat with Chris Johnson (whose new film I’ll see very soon), at this site (either direct access or via iTunes).
Membership in the FFRF is only $40 per year, and it’s money very well spent; you can join (or donate) here.
h/t: jsp
It is good that you do podcasts, PCC.
I first heard of you, and your book, on the Thinking Atheist Podcast.
🙂
Bloody iTunes doesn’t want to let you download the podcast, for later listening (specifically, when I’m on the bike to the pub in about 20 minutes).
You can download anything from the Freethought Radio archive here:
http://ffrf.libsyn.com/rss
Thanks a lot.
This goes directly to Jerry’s interview
http://ffrf.libsyn.com/faith-vs-fact
I rather thought there would be something somewhere. […] You reminded me to put the MP3-player on to recharge.
Hmmm…it’s working for me. Just click the “Get” button on the right in iTunes or the Subscribe button.
FFRF is a truly great organization. I have been a member for years now and reading the
crank mail each month, in their publication, is, in itself, worth the cost of membership. 🙂 And trying to find a grammatically correct sentence in
any of the expletive laden rants (i.e. letters)is sooo much fun.
Join; you’ll be glad you did.
I will second that message…hard working group up there in Wisconsin. Lawyers you can believe in.
Really good interview. Interesting story about the woman who asked Jerry how she could reconcile her faith with the obvious truth of evolution. Jerry said, among other things, that she would need to talk to her pastor about it. I think Jerry’s critics would expect him to answer with less understanding.
I haven’t read the book yet because it won’t be sent till tomorrow. Would have been sent today but it was a religious holiday here in Germany. The Holy Ghost did something spectacular on this day some time ago, so everyone gets a holiday.
She could also look up other people who have left their church and religion behind, such as the minister who became a biology man. Others have been through this emotional and intellectual upheaval, and could lend support. It’s very tough to learn that one’s lifetime investment was for nought. That’s partly why those curmudgeons at Dr. C’s talk in Chicago were so mad. It’s not just their sense of identity ‘all shook up’, but they see an assault on their lifetime investment, in more ways than one – some of it has to do with their social and financial networks and the ‘power grid’.
Very good interview although a short one.
Holiday here, holiday in Germany too. You can avoid all those holidays by doing one thing and that is to retire. No holidays and no weekends.
Good interview, Dr.C. What I’ve read so far of your book is great. Excellent writing style and research.
Am listening to the next podacst about Chris Johnson; I’d love to see his film.
Ditto.
Freedom From Religion Foundation has a great newspaper “Freethought Today” that I have taken since I first heard about it in 1989. Their “Black Collar Crime” section is shocking! The student essays are inspiring and the paper is full of news relating to church-state issues.