Monthly lectures from previous years |
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Previous speakers, please send any document, paper, or summary to John
Perkins for inclusion in web link. Attendees may aslo forward their comments. | |
| 2005 | |
| 8 Feb | Dr Irena Semetsky (Philosophy and Ethics, Monash
University)
"Belief and Unbelief: A Continuing Inquiry." |
| 8 Mar | Chris Gaffney (Editor, Labor Review)
"Christianity: From revolutionaries to State Religion" |
| 12 Apr | Graeme Lindenmayer (Author, Bonds of Belief)
"Five Contesting Foundations of Morality" |
| 10 May | Nigel Sinnott (Former Editor, The Freethinker)
"Atheos, Prometheus and Proserpine: Irreligion in Swinbures's Poetry" |
| 14 Jun | Dr. Robert Bender (Humanist Society of Victoria)
"The Koran: Theology and value System" |
| 12 July | Ken Young (Atheist Foundation of Australia)
"The Emotional Brain" |
| 9 Aug | John Perkins (Humanist Society of Victoria)
"Peace Prosperity and Propriety: ls Religion Really Good?" |
| 13 Sep | Ian Robinson. (Rationalist Society of Australia)
"Intelligent Design?" |
| 11 Oct | Adam Joseph (Broadcaster, Producer, Writer)
"The Scary Thing About Truth" |
| 8 Nov | Rick Barker
"The Triune-Metaphysic of the Christians: Visible or Invisible? The Tripartite Semalogos of the Early Church" |
| 13 Dec | Prof. J.J.C. (Jack) Smart (Philosophy, ANU and Monash University)
"Criticism Of Contemporary Purposive Arguments for the Existence of God" |
| 2006 | |
| 14 Feb | Chris Short (Australian Sceptics)
"Can Psychics Solve Murders?" |
| 14 Mar | Dr Rod Foster (Philosophy, University of Melbourne)
"Could Natural Selection Prepare us to be Religious?" |
| 11 Apr | Lynne Kelly (Author, The Skeptic's Guide to the Paranormal)
"Science and the Paranormal" |
| 9 May | James Gerrand (Humanist Society of Victoria)
"Higher Superstition: Anti-Science in the Academy" |
| 13 Jun | Andy Blunden (Author, For Ethical Politics)
"Why Marx was not an Atheist" |
| 11 Jul | Paul Murchison (Agnostic)
"The Concept of God: What is it/he/she/they?" |
| 8 Aug | Graeme Lindenmayer (Author of 'Bonds of Belief')
"Intelligent Design As A Scientific Theory" |
| 12 Sep | Robert Bender(Humanist Society of Victoria)
"The Bhagavad Gita: Yoga and the Justification of War" |
| 10 Oct | John Perkins (Secular Party of Australia)
"Should Religions be Tolerated?" |
| 14 Nov | Ian Robinson (Rationalist Society of Australia)
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| 12 Dec | Nigel Sinnott (Former Editor, 'The Freethinker' UK)
"Atheist Evangelist To Australia: Joseph Symes, 1841-1906." |
| 2007 | |
| 13 Feb | Rosslyn Ives (Humanist Society of Victoria)
" A Humanist View of Charles Darwin" |
| 13 Mar | Graeme Lindenmayer ( Author of 'Bonds of Belief')
"Agnosticism in the Eternal Triangle of Beliefs" |
| 10 Apr | Adam Joseph (Former President, Victorian Skeptics)
"Freethought Tribalism" |
| 08 May | Brian McKinlay(Rationalist Society of Australia)
"Evangelical Protestant Fundamentalism, USA Style" |
| 12 June | Dr. Neil Thomason (History & Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne)
"Atheist Distortion of the History of Science" |
| 10 July | Harry Gardner (Humanist Society of Victoria)
"Humanist Ethical Education: An Alternative to Religious Instruction" |
| 14 Aug | Russell Blackford (School of Philosophy and Bioethics, Monash University)
"Religious Vilification and Freedom of Speech" |
| 11 Sep | Rick Barker
"Bertrand Russell's Adventures on the Road to Damascus" |
| 09 Oct | John Noack (Carl Jung Society)
"Atheism and Spirituality" |
| 13 Nov | Nigel Sinnott (Former Editor, The Freethinker, UK )
"The (Hamilton-Byrne) Family, Frightened Freethinkers and a Review's Rough Ride" |
| 11 Dec | Peter Abrehart Unitarian Universalist
"Science and Religion" |
| 2008 | |
| 12 Feb | John L Perkins (Secular Party of Australia)
"Darwin Day - Darwin's Relevance Today" |
| 11 Mar | Paul Murchison (Author: 'Who is this God?')
"Are The Atheists Too Evangelistic?"" |
| 08 Apr | Robert Bender
"The Jehovah Witnesses and Evolution" |
| 13 May | Tamas Pataki (Author - 'Against Religion.')
"Some Aspects of the Psychology of Religion" |
| 10 Jun | Graeme Lindenmayer (Rationalist Society of Australia)
"Morality and the Environment" |