Atheist Society

Lecture ProgrammeSecond 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
08 April	Dr. Nigel Sinnott (former Editor, ‘The Freethinker’ UK) “English Boarding Schools and Muscular Christianity”
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	(Former editor, ‘The Freethinker’ UK) “GRE in schools, not SRI”
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: “Neanderthals and Modern Humans: How closely are we related?”
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 (Author, ‘Some Touch of Pity’) “Toward a Freak Ethics”
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.