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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 |
Oak DeBerg |
Are Atheists in the Military the "New" Gay, (or Black or
Female)? |
| August 3, 2008 |
Matt Dillahunty |
Belief |
| July 6, 2008 |
Dr. Rory Coker |
Pseudoscience, Antiscience and Nonscience! |
| 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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From the officers: The ACA Lecture Series continues Sunday, September 7 with speaker Oak DeBerg who will give a talk titled: Are Atheists in the Military the "New" Gay, (or Black or Female)? The lecture will be at the Austin History starting at 12:15pm.
The first ever ACA Garage Sale will Saturday, September 6th. Proceeds will benefit the ACA.
The 2008 ACA Bat Cruise will be September 20th. Come join us for this great event. Guests are welcome. The fee will be $20.
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