Freethought Matters - Donald Johanson 

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

What a wonderful man Donald Johanson is❤

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

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

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.

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! 😊

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.

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. 😊

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

They take your money and your mind! Powerful

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.

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!

Amaing video Thank you!

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

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

I thoroughly enjoyed this conversation. Thank you!

Congressional chaplains make a salary of around 170,000 dollars. That picks your pocket.

Lucy probably didn't give a hoot about god beliefs! I'm sure she was too busy dealing with reality. I bet she made a great buffalo stew!😅

We must unite behind luminaries like this against christofascism

Totally rad dude right there.