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Speaker |
Topic |
| December 7, 2008 |
TBA |
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| November 2, 2008 |
TBA |
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| October 5, 2008 |
TBA |
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| September 7, 2008 |
TBA |
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| August 3, 2008 |
TBA |
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| July 6, 2008 |
TBA |
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| June 1, 2008 |
Representative Donna Howard |
Religion and the Texas Legislature |
| May 4, 2008 |
ACA Board Election Meeting |
In lieu of a lecture, we will use the time at the Austin History Center to elect a new board. |
| April 6, 2008 |
Charles Jackson, PhD |
Climate Prediction: What can or can't we tell about our future -
The little-known inner-workings of climate model development |
| March 2, 2008 |
James H. Dee, Ph.D. |
"Thinking about Religion...and Why it's so Hard"
This lecture will discuss some of the obstacles to clear and honest thinking |
| February 3, 2008 |
Dicky Grigg |
It's Not About Them, It's About Us |
| January 6, 2008 |
Don Rhoades |
Early Freethought in Texas - The Immigration and Settlement of the "Deutsche Freidenkers" and the Struggle to Preserve Their Sto |
| December 2, 2007 |
Movie showing |
"The God who wasn't There" |
| November 4, 2007 |
Meet the Atheist Longhorns |
We'll have several members of the new UT group "Atheist Longhorns" to talk about their group. |
| October 7, 2007 |
Membership appreciation meeting |
In lieu of a lecture, we'll have a membership appreciation meeting. |
| September 9, 2007 |
Mark Loewe |
Low cost textbooks, progressive vouchers, and incorrect TAKS scores |
| August 5, 2007 |
Matt Dillahunty |
Visions of Hell |
| July 1, 2007 |
Members of CASA |
From advocacy to reason and back again |
| June 3, 2007 |
Video Showing and Discussion |
Showing of "The Creation Adventure Team: Jurassic Ark Mystery" |
| April 15, 2007 |
Lori Lipman Brown, Secular Coalition of America |
Protecting Our Freedoms: Taking the Message to Congress |
| March 4, 2007 |
Three members of the Travis County Archaeological Society |
Three mini-lectures covering human history in Texas and the practice of archeology. |
| February 4, 2007 |
UT History Professor Howard Miller |
The Atheist Moment: The Sudden and Remarkable Emergence of Public Atheism in George Bush's America |
| January 7, 2007 |
Robert "Rock" Howard |
Libertarianism: Philosophy, Religion or What? |
| November 5, 2006 |
Robin Matthews |
Teaching Evolution in Austin |
| October 22, 2006 |
Don Baker |
The Influence of Religion in the Spanish Conquest of the Americas |
| August 20, 2006 |
Jeff Jones, Center for Inquiry |
The New Austin CFI Community. |
| July 23, 2006 |
Danielle Tierney |
The Religious Right's War on Birth Control |
| June 18, 2006 |
Thomas Van Orden |
Recapping the 10C case and looking to the future of church-state separation |
| May 21, 2006 |
Mark Loewe |
Muon catalyzed nuclear fusion |
| March 19, 2006 |
Matt Dillahunty |
The History of the Biblical Canon |
| February 19, 2006 |
Dr. Alan Cline |
The Disregard of Science and the Responsibility of Citizens |
| January 15, 2006 |
Joe Zamecki |
A special atheist tour of Inner Space Cavern. |
| October 16, 2005 |
DJ Grothe, Center for Inquiry |
Arguing for America: Secularism and the Culture Wars |
| September 18, 2005 |
Don Baker |
Universal Darwinism: How Computer Science has Validated the Theory of Evolution |
| July 17, 2005 |
Craig Nazor |
The Hartman Prehistoric Garden - a Place for Ancient Plants in a Modern World |
| April 17, 2005 |
Deece Eckstein of People for the American Way |
Challenges to church-state separation |
| March 20, 2005 |
Several ACA Members |
A panel discussion on debating theists |
| February 20, 2005 |
Heather Alden |
Church-state separation and the Texas Freedom Network |
| January 16, 2005 |
Joe Zamecki |
Tales from the Trenches: A Report on Atheist Activism |
| November 21, 2004 |
M. Draper |
Darwin and Mendel were clueless: Why we shouldn't teach evolution in schools |
| October 17, 2004 |
Dr. Elaine Rich |
Our Quest for Machines that Act (and Look) Like Us |
| August 15, 2004 |
Shannon Rauh |
Texas, Health Education and the Textbook Debates |
| July 18, 2004 |
ACLU Attorney Jay Jacobson |
A "quick and dirty" guide on the history of the establishment ofreligion clause in the First Amendment - from colonial times to |
| May 16, 2004 |
Thomas van Orden |
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| February 16, 2004 |
Don Baker |
Morality and Christianity |
| December 7, 2003 |
Dr. Robert (Bob) Solomon |
Philosophy, Spirituality, and Atheism |
| November 2, 2003 |
Dr. James Dee |
The Death of the Afterlife: How Fossils, Embryos, and Brains
Falsify Promises of Heaven and Threats of Hell |
| June 1, 2003 |
Don Baker |
The implications of viewing Christianity as a meme |
| October 6, 2002 |
Don Baker |
Memes: The New Replicators |
| July 2, 2000 |
H. Thompson, R. Florence, J. Dee, J. Koonz, and M. Loewe |
Panel discussion on political activism |
| December 5, 1999 |
Mark Loewe |
Predictions of science |
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Congratulations to the new ACA Board for 2008-2009. See the board page for details.
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