Evolution, Climate Change, Denial & Beliefs

Published: July 16, 2018, 4:04 a.m.

b'In this episode I take us back to 2012 for a re-broadcast of interviews with Michael Zimmerman and Barbara Kingsolver.\\nIn the first part of today\\u2019s show, you will hear an interview that first aired in February 2012 with Michael Zimmerman, the founder of the\\xa0Clergy Letter Project and Evolution Weekend.\\xa0\\xa0 Over 13 thousand Christian, Jewish, and Unitarian Universalist clergy have signed a letter in support of teaching evolution in public schools.\\xa0\\xa0 On the Sunday closest to Darwin\\u2019s Birthday faith communities all over the United States celebrate Evolution Weekend by honoring science and religion.\\xa0\\nAuthor\\xa0Barbara Kingsolver\\xa0lives in southwest Virginia.\\xa0 She is the author of 14 books including the\\xa0The\\xa0 Poisonwood Bible,\\xa0The Lacuna, and\\xa0Animal, Vegetable, Miracle.\\xa0 She visited with me at the WEHC studio at Emory and Henry College to discuss her latest novel,\\xa0Flight Behavior, a novel set in Southern Appalachia.\\xa0\\xa0 In part it is about denial and the beliefs that get assigned to us.'