Atheist Society

Lecture Programme
Second Tuesday of the month at 8 pm. Unitarian Church Hall, 110 Grey Street, East Melbourne. (Opposite the old Mercy Hospital). Melways Map 2G, D2. Admission free, no prior booking necessary, all welcome. The talk usually goes for 45-60 minutes. A question-to-the-speaker period follows the lecture.

2014
11 Feb Rick Barker (Philosophy Forum) DarwinDay Lecture
“The Pleistocene Epoch and the Emergence of the Genus Homo“
11 Mar Sudhir Kumar (Melbourne Atheist)
“Origin of Religion and Atheism in Eastern Thought”
08 April Dr. Tamas Pataki (Author, “Against Religion”)
“The Virtues of Atheism and Vices of Religion”
13 May Jonathan Rutherford (Co-author, “Beloved Father: Beloved Son”)
“God and the Subjectivity of Ethics”
10 June John Stewart (evolutionarymanifesto.com)
“Evolution and the Meaning of Life”
08 July Dr. Joe Sampson (Humanist Society of Victoria)
“The Democratic Labor Party (DLP) and Bob Santamaria”
12 Aug Nigel Sinnott (Former editor, ‘The Freethinker’ UK)
“English Boarding Schools and Muscular Christianity”
09 Sept Dr. William Hall (Evolutionary Biology of Species and Organisations)
“Evolutionary epistemology versus faith and justified true belief:
Does science work and can we know the truth?”
14 Oct Andrew Rawlings (Progressive Atheists)
“The Progress of Atheism”
11 Nov John Perkins (Melbourne Atheist)
“Moral Principlism: A General Solution to the problem of formulating non-religious ethics”
9 Dec Graeme Lindenmayer (agnosticperspectives.com)
“What if you were wrong?”
2015
10 Feb Rick Barker (Philosophy Forum)
Charles Darwin Day lecture:
“The 19th Century Gorilla Wars: A struggle between science and faith”
10 Mar Elida Radig (Atheist Alliance International)
“Feminism and Atheism: The International View”
14 Apr Robert Bender (Humanist Society of Victoria)
“A Critique of Creationism”
12 May Roger Boyce (Psychologist)
“Was Saint Paul a Homosexual?”
09 Jun Lawrence Pope (Victorian Advocates for Animals)
“Unhelpful God, Over-inflated Man: Toward a Freak Ethos”
10 Jul Joe Sampson (Humanist Society of Victoria)
“God: His Biography”

For those who are happy to accept that there is no credible scientific or factually reliable evidence for the existence of a god or gods or the supernatural.

For further information, contact David Miller, Secretary. Telephone: 03 9467 2063
Email: atheist_agnostic@lycos.com
Mail: PO Box 1111, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia.

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