Atheist Society
Melbourne, Australia

Monthly lectures from previous years

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?"
2010
09 Feb Rick Barker (Philosophy Forum)
"Evolution's Controversial History: Lamark, Darwin and Wallace"
09 Mar Dr. Joseph Gelfer (Social Inquiry, Monash University)
"A Critical Look at the 2012 Phenomenon."
13 Apr John L Perkins (Secular Party of Australia)
"Economics and the Rise of Secularism"
11 May Ray Lewis ("The Release Effect")
"I feel, therefore I am: Rationality and the Emotions."
08 June Graeme Lindenmayer (Rationalist Society of Australia)
"When does a life begin?"
13 July Jason Ball (University of Melbourne Secular Society)
"A Fresh Generation of Freethinkers"
10 Aug Alex McCullie (CAE Tutor)
" Naturalism as a Viable Worldview."
14 Sep Russell Blackford (Co-Editor, '50 Voices of Disbelief')
" Living in a world without objective values"
12 Oct Ian Robinson (Rationalist Society of Australia)
" Do modern theologians' concepts of god escape the atheist critique
(or does 'post-ontological' boil down to 'non-existent')?
"
09 Nov Robert Bender (Humanist Society of Victoria)
" Orthodox Jews and involvement in science: can they be reconciled?"
14 Dec Meredith Doig (Rationalist Society of Australia)
"The Emotionality of Belief"
2011
08 Feb Rick Barker (Philosophy Forum)
"Fitness: The Earth's Evolutionary Path"
08 Mar Marquez Comelab (Reasonism)
"Morality Does Not Come From Religion"
12 Apr Jean Brown (Humanist Society of Victoria)
"Belief and Unbelief: The Nature of Being Human"
10 May Lev Lafayette (Isocracy Network)
"The Rejection of Imposed Authority, Divine or Human"
14 Jun Tony Dear (Rothbardian)
"Anarcho-Capitalism for the Undamned Individual"
12 July Ali Sayed (Progressive Atheists Inc)
"Progressive Atheism: What is it?"
09 Aug Lyn Allison (former Senator)
"Religion and Education"
13 Sep Graeme Lindenmayer (Rationalist Society of Australia)
"The 'Hard Problem' of Consciousness"
11 Oct Roger Boyce (Psychologist)
"Despite its Atheism, is Buddhism a Religion?"
08 Nov Robert Bender (Humanist Society of Victoria)
"The Exclusive Brethren: A critical examination"
13 Dec Alex McCullie (CAE Tutor)
"Science and the Objectivity Myth" notes
2012
14 Feb Rick Barker (Philosophy Forum)
"You, Me and the Chimpanzees: You can pick your friends, but not your relatives"
13 Mar Petra Brown (Paideia Australia. International and Political Studies, Deakin University)
"New Atheism: Destroying golden calfs or worshipping the Wallstreet bull?"
10 Apr John Perkins (Secular Party)
"Islam and Terrorism: An Atheist View"
8 May Tim Heasley (Fairness in Religions in School)
"The Threat to Secular Education"
12 June Graeme Lindenmayer (Rationalist Society of Australia)
""The Nature of the Supernatural"
10 Jul Nigel Sinnott (Former Editor, 'The Freethinker' UK)
"What Atheism means to me, and what it does not mean"
14 Aug Rosslyn Ives (Australian Humanists)
"Is Atheism Culturally Weak?"
11 Sep Tamas Pataki (Author - 'Against Religion')
"What's Wrong With The New Atheism: A Critique"
09 Oct Meredith Doig (Rationalist Society of Australia)
"The Pleasure of Understanding"
13 Nov Lev Lafayette (Victorian Secular Lobby)
"The Importance of a Secular Political System"
11 Dec Alex McCullie (CAE Tutor)
"Bible 101 for Atheists (or Being a Biblical Smart Alec to Evangelicals)"
2013
12 Feb Rick Barker (Philosophy Forum)
"Neanderthals, Denisovans, Hobbits and Homo-Sapiens: The Origin and Evolution of the Genus Homo"
12 Mar Dick Gross (Author, 'Godless Gospel')
"Jesus, Judas and Mordy"
9 April Professor Graham Oppy (Philosophy, Monash University)
"The Kalam Cosmological Argument"

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