Posted on May 27th, 2009 by armineh
Physicists usually pursue their passion just because it’s interesting, but many of their discoveries have led to changes in society with great moral consequences. Jeff Justice will describe several physics discoveries and show how they have influenced our everyday lives and morals. Jeff developed a love of physics in his teenage years. He spent most [...]
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Posted on May 23rd, 2009 by armineh
Humanist Community member and founder of Atheists of Silicon Valley (www.godlessgeeks.com), Mark Thomas, will talk about the fact that there is no reliable evidence for the existence of Jesus of Nazareth. All evidence points to the idea that he was a myth with a story that grew over time. If you can’t make the talk, [...]
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Posted on May 17th, 2009 by armineh
Kuwait elects its first women MPs
By Diana Elias, Associated Press, in Kuwait City
Monday, 18 May 2009
Kuwaitis elected female parliament members for the first time and rejected a number of Islamic fundamentalist candidates this weekend in a vote that many hoped would bring stability to the country’s rocky political scene.
Women gained the right to vote and [...]
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Posted on May 17th, 2009 by armineh
Jacqueline Cabasso
Executive Director, Western States Legal Foundation
Ms. Cabasso will examine some of the “inconvenient truths” that lie between the currently fashionable rhetoric about creating a “vision of a nuclear weapon free world” and the reality required to achieve it. Having recently returned from the “No to NATO – No to War International Conference” in Strasbourg, [...]
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Posted on May 17th, 2009 by armineh
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-allen17-2009may17,0,491082.story
From the Los Angeles Times
Opinion
Atheists: No God, no reason, just whining
Superstar atheists are motivated by anger — and boohoo victimhood.
By Charlotte Allen
May 17, 2009
I can’t stand atheists — but it’s not because they don’t believe in God. It’s because they’re crashing bores.
Other people, most recently the British cultural critic Terry Eagleton in his new book, [...]
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Posted on May 4th, 2009 by armineh
Many who value the separation of religion and government have sought an appropriate response to the federally-supported National Day of Prayer, an annual abuse of the constitution. Nontheistic Americans (including freethinkers, humanists, atheists, agnostics, and deists), along with many traditionally religious allies, view such government-sanctioned sectarianism as unduly exclusionary.
A consortium of leaders from within the [...]
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