Freethought Matters - Donald Johanson

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Ай бұрын

On this week's episode of "Freethought Matters," FFRF Co-Presidents Annie Laurie Gaylor and Dan Barker speak with Donald Johanson, the paleo anthropologist who discovered the Lucy Fossil. Johanson discovered Lucy in Ethiopia in 1974, and currently is one of the most complete skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis.
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@mytwocents848 Ай бұрын

I've always enjoyed Donald's wonderful sense of humor. It amazes me how Paleo Anthropologists can find these tiny bones in these very rough areas. They are very intuitive and dedicated people and have given us so much information about our past. Thank you, Mr. Johanson, for broadening our knowledge! I think that I will start putting "African" as my "race" in the future, too. 😊

@davidschneider8262 Ай бұрын

A giant in the field. Gift to mankind. Thank you, Donald Johanson.

@thomasdulaney1054 Ай бұрын

Make America Secular Again. Secularism is not just a right, it's a necessity

@iitywybmad29 Ай бұрын

A great episode. Thank you. I have started sharing this definition on posts. I no longer refer to religion, but what it is. superstition - noun 1a: a belief or practice resulting from ignorance, fear of the unknown, trust in magic or chance, or a false conception of causation b: an irrational abject attitude of mind toward the supernatural, nature, or God resulting from superstition 2: a notion maintained despite evidence to the contrary Merriam-Webster

@kleenmaint Ай бұрын

I'm so glad you have gotten this recognition. Thanks for your work. Learning and gathering concrete data w/o prejudice is fundamental to our identity and our legacy, future, and our sanity. Fear should not enter into it. We can not change reality by wishing it different. Thanks for the hope of continued human sanity.

@alanjones5639 Ай бұрын

Thanks for the conversation and for your words about religion and what it removes from us.

@RobJellyBean Ай бұрын

What a wonderful man Donald Johanson is❤

@jamesschneider2091 Ай бұрын

Outstanding and famous guest today. Brings me back to memories of an Anthropology elective I took with U. of Maryland back around 1981 - Lucy was all the rage - my interest in human origins started there and continues. The Laetoli footprints find is my favorite, discovered by archaeologist Mary Leakey - also Australopithecus afarensis (dated 3.6 million years). Long live Dr. Johanson! 😊

@CCpro83 Ай бұрын

They take your money and your mind! Powerful

@user-pr8gx3vb9h Ай бұрын

It gets me blood boiling level mad when the religious right downplay Lucy and her role in the fossil record and how important to the evolutionary history of the apes including homosapians her role is as well.

@kleenmaint Ай бұрын

Yes, I grew up with this nonsense as a Jehovah's Witness. It is very sad. The level of fear of anything that might question there narrative is ugly.

@user-pr8gx3vb9h Ай бұрын

@@kleenmaint Always will be.

@Owl350 27 күн бұрын

Hi, thank you for having this man on. It's a great inspiration for a lot of people. It was my evolution theory in 1995. That changed the theory using the scientific current events of archaeology. While using the science of d n a before, it had been completed. Sincerely: Patrick Allen Andrews

@MattSkatter09 Ай бұрын

This was such an interesting guest to have on the show. I didn't hear about Lucy until I was in my third year of college, and looking back now, it really is a shame and a disservice that the high school I went to never mentioned her.

@SparklyCoconut-le3fu Ай бұрын

Thanks for this interview! Gonna have to watch more from him and you

@demarcushenderson999 Ай бұрын

Repent

@SparklyCoconut-le3fu Ай бұрын

@@demarcushenderson999 no

@dancingnature Ай бұрын

@demarcushenderson999, lying about God’s creation is blasphemy. Creationists lie!

@zur13l13 Ай бұрын

I learned about him in middle school in the mid-'80s. My social studies teacher drilled the discovery into our heads with a jingle she made up. Austra-lo-pithecus afarensis da DA da Discovered by Donald Jo-Hanson da DA da Still in there!