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. | |
| 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" |
| 08 July | Dr. Gideon Polya (Author - 'Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History')
" Body Count: Global avoidable mortality since 1950" |
| 12 Aug | Ian Robinson (Rationalist Society of Australia)
"No Hope for the Pope: A reply to the attack on Atheism in Benedict XVI's Encyclical Letter 'Spe Salvi' (Saved by Hope)" |
| 9 Sept | Professor Graham Oppy (Philosophy & Bioethics, Monash University)
"The New Atheists and Christian Nationalism" |
| 14 Oct | Jacinta Cashen (Victorian Council of School Organisations)
"Challenges to Secular Education" |
| 11 Nov | Catherine Deveny ('The Age' columnist)
"My Conversion to Atheism" |
| 9 Dec | Wolfgang Eubel (A Melbourne Atheist)
"Was J.S.Bach an Atheist?" |
| 2009 | |
| 10 Feb | John L Perkins (Atheist, Economist, and Secular Party founding member)
"Darwin and Islam: Evolution and the Failure of Islam" |
| 10 Mar | Russell Blackford (Philosophy & Bioethics, Monash University
"Voices of Disbelief" |
| 14 Apr | Graeme Lindenmayer (Rationalist Society of Australia)
"Does Reductionism Make Science Simplistic?" |
| 12 May | Chris Gaffney (Victorian Labor College)
"Marxism materialism and atheism" |
| 9 June | Dr John Long (Melbourne Museum)
"Creationism, dogma and pseudoscience: fighting the war against the growth of wilful ignorance" |
| 14 July | Silvio Bonazinga (PhD Student)
"The Atheist Veneration of Science" |
| 11 Aug | Robert Bender (Humanist Society of Victoria)
"Science and religion" |
| 08 Sep | Alex McCullie (CAE Tutor on Atheist Philosophy)
" Progressive Christianity's Redefining of God and Jesus: A Secular Response" |
| 13 Oct | Lev Lafayette
"Atheist Support for Religious Freedom" |
| 10 Nov | Nigel Sinnott (Former Editor, The Freethinker, UK, 1972-73 )
"My March to Militant Atheism, and What I Fought on the Way " |
| 08 Dec | Roger Boyce (Psychologist)
"Have Atheists Been Gulled By Jesus?" |