CFI Past Events of 2008
PAST CFI-SAZ EVENTS OF 2008
Our Southern Arizona Community of the Center for Inquiry has a number of Secular Inquiry Groups, SIGs, that generally meet once a month and our full membership and visitors monthly meetings that take place most frequently at 1:30 PM on Sundays. Past 2008 events by the end of this month have or will have included:
July 20, 2008. CFI-Southern Arizona Commmunity Reid Park Picnic.
June 15, 2008. Alternative Medicine:Useful, Fraud or Quackery? Does alternative medicine, such as the use of massive doses of vitamins, herbs, tonics and psychic surgery as performed today, have evidence that they are useful in mitigating medical problems? A talk by Dr. James Lowell.
May 18, 2008. Rescuing the End of Life from Officials of the Medical Community, the Church and the State and the role of Final Exit Network. A talk by Ila DeLuca.
April 27, 2008. Why I Am Not a Muslim and Is Islam Reformable? A talk by Ibn Warraq, author of "Why I Am Not a Muslim and Is Islam Reformable".
April 3, 2008. The Secular Conscience: Breaking Religion's Monopoly on Morality. Who holds the monopoly on morality? A talk by Austin Dacey.
March 16, 2008. Nothing: Something to Believe In. A talk by a Nica Lalli based on her book, "Nothing: Something to Believe In".
February 17, 2008. Does Religion Make Any Sense? A talk by former pastor Dick Watts. For a long time, best-seller lists have been topped by "religious" books... More recently, high-profile critiques of religion by Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens have soared to the top religious topic lists as well. What is their critique about?
January 11, 2008. God Does Not Exist and I Can Prove It. Stenger will offer the argument that there is no evidence for God. Stenger's latest book, "God: The Failed Hypothesis. How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist" (2007), made the New York Times bestseller list in March, 2007. He has written many other books that focus on the interface between physics and cosmology and philosophy, religion, and pseudoscience.
