Diary
Darwin Day exhibit
Tuesday, Feb 3, 2009We’ve hired a display case at the entrance to Ipswich Central Library for the week including Darwin Day (12th February), the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Darwin. Offers of help to set it up welcome.Ipswich County Library
Tuesday, Feb 3, 2009County Library Northgate Street Ipswich IP1 3DE Telephone: Reference Library 01473 583705 Lending Library 01473 583710 Arts Library 01473 583715 Email: help@suffolklibraries.co.ukClimate Change, why religious faith matters even if youre an atheist!
Monday, Feb 2, 2009We’ve been invited to an event in Ipswich this weekend. Various local groups with an interest in the environment, including Suffolk Wildlife Trust and the Ipswich Society, will be there. No idea why religious faith matters even if you’re an atheist. If you want to find out, let us know how it goes. We are having an Energy Day this coming Saturday at St Margaret’s Church Hall in Bolton Lane Ipswich and I have attached a poster about the event.Bus slogan generator
Monday, Feb 2, 2009Add your own slogan to the side of a virtual atheist bus.Half of Britons dont believe in evolution
Monday, Feb 2, 2009The results of the Rescuing Darwin survey, published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth by the Theos think tank, make depressing reading. A staggering proportion of the UK population are woefully ignorant about evolution. I’d like to say it surprised me, but it didn’t. The story’s on the Guardian website, beginning as follows: Half of British adults do not believe in evolution, with at least 22% preferring the theories of creationism or intelligent design to explain how the world came about, according to a survey.Whooooo!
Friday, Jan 30, 2009Derby City Hospital is haunted, apparently. Maybe it’s looking for its appendix?James Hemming Essay Prize
Thursday, Jan 29, 2009The James Hemming essay prize will be awarded in July 2009. The competition is open to any student at a UK school or college studying for AS or A2 levels who will not have passed his or her 19th birthday by 31st March 2009. The subject is “In life, the meaning comes in living”. First prize £1000. Do you know someone who might enter?Humanists for Science
Thursday, Jan 29, 2009There’s a new Humanists for Science group on Blogger, affiliated to the BHA. Latest posts ponder whether we’re losing opportunities for science and wonder, and whether atheism fosters immorality? We know the answer to the latter, surely.EADT article about Darwinism v Creationism in schools
Thursday, Jan 29, 2009An article by Kate Whiting in the East Anglian Daily Times yesterday refers to the resignation of Prof. Michael Reiss from the Royal Society last year, after he said that Creationism should be discussed in science lessons if students wanted to. File Attachment: EADT creationist story, 28 Jan 09.jpg (527 KB) The article mentions that Reiss was in the working party that drew up the DCSF advice to schools about creationism in 2007, including the need to “respect” religious students’ views.BHA founder Harold Blackham dies at the age of 105
Tuesday, Jan 27, 2009Harold Blackham, ‘architect of the British and international humanist movements’ and ‘founder of the British Humanist Association’, died at the age of 105 on 23 January. Read his obituary on the BHA website.