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ACA Lecture Series

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Date Speaker Topic
December 7, 2008 TBA
November 2, 2008 TBA
October 5, 2008 TBA
September 7, 2008 TBA
August 3, 2008 TBA
July 6, 2008 TBA
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
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

From the officers:

The next Adopt-a-Street clean up will be May 17th at 11am.

Regular Sunday meetings and ACA board meetings have both been moved 30 minutes later. The regular Sunday meeting is at Romeo's, now starting 11:30am.
Congratulations to the new ACA Board for 2008-2009. See the board page for details.
On June 14th, the ACA will have a booth at the Gay & Lesbian Pride Festival. Volunteers are needed.
The ACA Summer Solstice Party will be June 21st.