A couple reminders: Tomorrow is Evolution Sunday! And Monday is Charles Darwin’s 198th birthday! How are you celebrating?! Here is a giant (but not completely comprehensive) list of planned Darwin Day activities around the world. [tags]atheist, atheism, Darwin Day, Charles Darwin, Christianity, religion, evolution, Evolution Sunday[/tags] Read more
The editors of the Philadelphia Weekly, the city’s alternative newspaper, came out with its 2007 list of “Who We ♥.” And topping their list was Margaret Downey, president of Atheist Alliance International! Here’s the writeup (apparently, the PW doesn’t like paragraphs): Who’s that woman dressed in Colonial clobber clattering around City Hall? It’s godless she-devil Margaret Downey, the woman who once sued the Boy Scouts of America for discriminating against atheists during her crusade to win rabble-rousing Philadelphian revolutionary Thomas… Read more
The Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard University along with the Secular Student Alliance are teaming up for a once-in-a-lifetime conference. The conference will take place on the Harvard campus on April 20 and 21. Speakers include: Novelist Salman Rushdie 2002 International Humanist of the Year Amartya Sen 1999 American Humanist of the Year E.O. Wilson 2006 American Humanist of the Year Steven Pinker 2003 American Humanist of the Year Rabbi Sherwin T. Wine folk/rock star Dar Williams Professor Tu Weiming, Director… Read more
