Ed Brayton is a freelance writer and speaker. He is the co-founder and president of Michigan Citizens for Science and co-founder of The Panda's Thumb. He has written for such publications as The Bard, Skeptic and Reports of the National Center for Science Education, spoken in front of many organizations and conferences, and appeared on nationally syndicated radio shows and on C-SPAN. Ed is also a Fellow with the Center for Independent Media.(static)
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Posted on: August 15, 2007 11:48 AM, by Ed Brayton
Is finally here! The gentleman who managed to get it all downloaded, converted and chopped up does not wish to be identified, but I send my thanks to him anyway for what really turned out to be a lot of effort and time spent. There are two clips and I will post them both below the fold.
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Does Rick Scarborough's take on illness as punishment from God apply to Tony Snow's cancer? Is it wrong for Snow's doctors to offer him treatment?
Posted by: Dr X | August 15, 2007 12:20 PM
Thanks to the person who helped get this up, and thanks for going and speaking Ed, though for some reason I had a completely different mental image of what your voice would be like.
Posted by: Halcyon | August 15, 2007 1:20 PM
Saw it on C-SPAN. Way to go.
Glen D
http://tinyurl.com/2kxyc7
Posted by: Glen Davidson | August 15, 2007 2:17 PM
Ed: Extremely well done, my friend.
Posted by: Dan | August 15, 2007 2:42 PM
Great stuff, Ed. Funny, and informative.
Posted by: bourgeois_rage | August 15, 2007 2:53 PM
I very much like your definitions of the term "ignorance". Now how to translate them into Dutch without losing strength ;-). Thanks for this great lecture.
Posted by: skblllzzzz | August 15, 2007 3:22 PM
Ed,
You were great.
The videos of my talk are also now up on YouTube and watchable here
http://scienceblogs.com/intersection/2007/08/appearance_on_the_jim_bohannon.php
Posted by: Chris Mooney | August 15, 2007 4:01 PM
Great. Anyone who didn't get to see it on C-Span, I highly recommend following that link and watching Chris' speech. It was terrific as always.
Posted by: Ed Brayton | August 15, 2007 4:05 PM
There's the whole thing:
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=birdieflybirdie
Posted by: 386sx | August 15, 2007 4:13 PM
Great presentation. (And I see that you didn't really say anything about Charles Stanley.)
Anyway, I rarely comment here but I enjoy reading your blog. Thx.
Donna
Posted by: writerdd | August 15, 2007 4:16 PM
Kinnaman sounded like a lot of fun, so I did a Google search. The top three results were the Christian Century article, something from a site about Atlantis, and someone's personal page about books that they've read. They quite enjoyed Kinnaman's work, did a Google search of their own, and seem disgruntled that Christian Century would pan him. They write:
Now I'm going to read Atlantis Rising. Hopefully they're respectable enough not to have had Martin Luther King Jr contribute anything!
Posted by: pough | August 15, 2007 7:07 PM
Great talk, Ed! "Well known scholar and historian Chuck Norris" had me rolling.
But for some reason, the first video stops playing with 33 seconds left, and the second cuts off with 2 minutes left. Is anybody else having this problem?
Posted by: Wes | August 15, 2007 7:45 PM
Nope, they play to the end for me.
Posted by: Ed Brayton | August 15, 2007 8:56 PM
Great job, Ed.
It didn't actually hit me until I watched this, but this is the first time I've actually heard your voice. It's a little thing, I know. But it's cool to hear what you sound like. Plus, a year or two ago I asked you if you had any tape from your standup days and you said you didn't. So this also gives us all a chance to see your comedic delivery (at least a little).
Again, very well done.
Posted by: Chris Berez | August 15, 2007 9:16 PM
Must be some error in my computer then. But no matter: I tried the link 386sx posted. It played just fine for me, so I got to see the whole thing. Really good stuff all around.
Posted by: Wes | August 15, 2007 10:51 PM
Oh, and also, thank you thank you thank you for posting it in a format other than RealPlayer. I'd wanted to watch it when you posted it earlier, but the C-Span website kept trying to get me to download some shit from RealPlayer before I could watch it. I'd rather swim in a candirú infested river than download something from that company.
...Okay, that's a bit of an exaggeration, but you get the idea. I hate RealPlayer.
Posted by: Wes | August 15, 2007 10:55 PM
I could watch you poke fun at Carl Baugh and Grant Jeffries all day.
Posted by: Jon Rowe | August 15, 2007 11:14 PM
Outstanding talk. Thanks for posting it here.
Posted by: Chuck | August 16, 2007 1:24 AM