Topic: Musician Interview Sugestion: Greg Graffin

[TheDeeEm]

GREG GRAFFIN

Greg Graffin is most noted as the lead singer of punk rock band Bad Religion.

He also has a Ph.D in Zoology and teaches paleontology at UCLA. The Ph.D. dissertation was officially a zoology Ph.D., supervised by William B. Provine at Cornell. The dissertation was entitled "Monism, Atheism and the Naturalist Worldview: Perspectives from Evolutionary Biology."

Some other notable things:

Greg Graffin received the Harvard Secular Society's "Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism" on April 26, 2008

He has written many papers and projects on the subject of Evolution vs Religion, and led a major study/project titled "Cornell Evolution Project" Which included the participation of many big name evolutionists such as Richard Dawkins

http://www.cornellevolutionproject.org/

Here is his wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Graffin

I believe Graffin is an easily accessible quasi-famous propanent of evolutionary theory and would be an interesting new twist on the guest interviews that include mostly scientists.

[TheDeeEm]

Here is a video of Graffin explaining his study which focuses on the compatability of evolution and religion

http://www.cornellevolutionproject.org/PHD-Iview.mp4

[zen_arcade]

Excellent suggestion. Hell yeah punk rockers with Ph.Ds!