We’re happy to say that AHA! has joined with other Bay Area groups to form the Silicon Valley Coalition of Reason. SVCoR is “a coalition of nontheist groups, allied to improve our strengths and the lives of nontheist people in Silicon Valley”. A big thanks to United Coalition of Reason, who provided resources to organize the effort, and will fund a new ad campaign – more details in the future.
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The Stanford Daily has an article today about Ray Comfort’s efforts to distribute copies of Darwin’s “Origin of Species”. This version of the book had a special introduction intended to discredit the idea of evolution. You can find out more about the campaign here. You can find more information about what’s wrong with the introduction at “Don’t Diss Darwin“, a site run by the National Center for Science Education. A detailed, page-by-page debunking can be found here. Lastly, it appears that Comfort has decided to give an interview to the Friendly Atheist, Hemant Mehta, in the near future. Watch Hemant’s blog for more info.
Greg was nice enough to encourage more people to get involved in our group. We hope we see a lot of faces returning to work with us in the future. He also challenged us to make service projects a bigger part of our mission, and I hope we can meet that challenge, partially in cooperation with Stanford’s Interfaith group. We were happy to also have people from the Stanford Daily attend the event. There’s a nice article in today’s paper:
Where: Cubberley Auditorium, School of Education Price: Free! See Greg M. Epstein speak about his new book Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe. A Q&A and book-signing will follow the lecture, and the book will be on sale in the lobby. UPDATE: Greg and Good Without God have been getting a lot of press! Check it out:
There are also book excerpts on Amazon.com and in the latest issue of The Humanist. In response to the “New Atheists” who see religion as a public enemy, Epstein presents Humanism as a more balanced and inclusive worldview. With a focus on the positive, he highlights humanity’s potential for goodness and the ways in which Humanists lead lives of purpose and compassion. Humanism can offer the sense of community we want and often need in good times and bad, as we celebrate marriages and the birth of our children, and as we care for those who are elderly or sick. In short, Humanism teaches us that we can lead good and moral lives without supernaturalism, without higher powers, and without God. Greg Epstein, called “the most outspoken voice for Humanism in the United States” by New York magazine, serves as the Humanist Chaplain of Harvard University. In 2005 Epstein received ordination as a Humanist Rabbi from the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism, where he studied in Jerusalem and Michigan for five years. He holds a BA (Religion and Chinese) and an MA (Judaic Studies) from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a Masters of Theological Studies from the Harvard Divinity School. Epstein is a regular contributor for “On Faith,” an online forum on religion produced by Newsweek magazine, the Washington Post, and Tikkun, and his work as a Humanist rabbi and Chaplain has been featured by National Public Radio, BBC Radio, Newsweek, US News and World Report, USA Today, the Boston Globe, the Jewish Daily Forward, and many more. He was also selected by the United Nations General Assembly to serve as a representative of Humanism at a “High-level Dialogue of the General Assembly on Interreligious and Intercultural Understanding and Cooperation for Peace.” Co-sponsored by the Silicon Valley Coalition of Reason and ASSU Speakers Bureau, and supported by the ASSU Undergraduate Senate and Graduate Student Council. Continue reading Good Without God, Greg Epstein Wednesday, November 11, 2009 Thomas Jefferson called Jesus’s moral teachings in the Bible “diamonds in a dunghill.” Can the foundation of Christian doctrine inform secular, reality-based ethics? The discussion will be led by Paul Gilbert, who is AHA!’s Professional Leader in the Stanford Associated Religions program and a member of the Humanist Community in Silicon Valley. Before his awakening to Humanism, Paul completed a Master of Divinity degree at Garrett Theological Seminary.  AHA! T-Shirt Design
When: Wed. Nov. 4th 7:30pm Where: Common Room, 3rd Floor of Old Union Sponsored by Stanford Says No To War We will be having our weekly Wednesday meeting in a different time and
Where: LGBT-CRC (2nd Floor – Firetruck House) The LGBT-Community Resource Center and the Stanford Associated Religions are partnering to hold an event that will overlap with our meeting time this week, so we’ll be canceling to attend. Join us in seeing “For the Bible Tells Me So”, a film about Christianity and homosexuality, plus dinner and discussion.
When: Wednesday, October 21, 7pm
If you want to get a leg up, you can of course check out wikipedia. When: Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 7:00pm – 9:00pm |
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