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Baltimore Secular Humanists |
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BSH is a Chapter of Washington Area Secular Humanists, Inc. (WASH) BSH is a discussion group for exploring issues about morality, science, and society for WASH members or other interested people in the greater Baltimore, MD, area. Most of our members consider themselves to be freethinkers, nontheists (uninterested in supernatural matters or life after this world), atheists (disbelieve in a supreme being), agnostic (not convinced that there is evidence to believe in God), or "not sure" (don't want to commit themselves on an opinion poll). Baltimore Secular Humanists is a participant in the Baltimore Coalition of Reason (BaltimoreCOR), sponsored by the UnitedCOR
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WASH Winter Dinner: Saturday, January 16, 2010, Noon to Two PM WASH will have its traditional Winter Dinner, featuring a deluxe buffet of Mexican specialties including steak, chicken, seafood and vegetarian options. Location: Guapo’s Mexican Restaurant, 8130 Wisconsin Avenue in Bethesda, MD. The restaurant is three blocks south of the Medical Center Metro station, and has convenient free parking in the Woodmont Avenue garage in back of the restaurant. The speaker will be Jennifer Bardi, Editor of The Humanist Magazine and former writer, editor, and program director at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California. Reservations: Send a check payable to WASH for $40 per person to WASH Treasurer at PO Box 198, Abingdon, MD 21009, or sign up on line using the convenient Click and Pledge link found at the lower right on our web site, www.wash.org. Reservations must be received no later than January 12.
February Meeting Topic: Special Darwin Day event: Prof. Thomas R. Holtz on "What did Charles Darwin REALLY Discover?" Sunday, February 14, at 10:30 am Location: Joint meeting with Baltimore Ethical Society Everyone knows that Charles Darwin was the pivotal figure in the science of Evolution, but fewer people are aware of what his particular contributions actually were. This talk will examine what was known about evolution prior to Darwin's work; Darwin's education and voyages; his co-discovery of Natural Selection; and some of his other contributions to the earth and life sciences. Dr. Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. is a dinosaur paleobiologist and Senior Lecturer in Vertebrate Paleontology at the Department of Geology, University of Maryland, College Park. His expertise is the evolution, anatomy, and adaptations of the carnivorous dinosaurs, with emphasis on the Tyrannosauroidea (tyrant dinosaurs: Tyrannosaurus rex and its kin). In addition to paleontology, he teaches courses on evolution, historical geology, global change, and the nature of science. He is the Faculty Director and co-creator of two residential honors programs in the sciences. As well as technical publications, Dr. Holtz has authored several popular audience works on dinosaurs, including Dinosaurs: The Most Complete Up-To-Date Encyclopedia for Dinosaur Lovers of All Ages (Random House, 2007). He is frequently a consultant for and appears in documentaries shown on Discovery, National Geographic, BBC, and the History Channel, most notably the original Walking with Dinosaurs. His website is http://www.geol.umd.edu/~tholtz/. Directions: The Baltimore Ethical Society is located at 306 West Franklin Street. (Rt. 40 west) in the heart of Baltimore between Howard and Eutaw Streets. Take I-95 north, merge onto I-395 north via exit #53 toward Downtown, Inner Harbor. Take Martin Luther King Blvd. exit. Turn right onto W. Mulberry St. (US 40 East). Turn left onto Park Avenue. Turn left onto West Franklin Street (Rt. 40 West), and proceed one block. February BES Meeting: Greg Paul on "The End of Supernaturalistic Religion: The Socioeconomic Factor." Sunday, February 28, at 10:30 am Location: Baltimore Ethical Society Greg Paul's (www.gspaulscienceofreligion.com) ground breaking technical paper (www.epjournal.net/filestore/EP07398441_c.pdf) showing that religion is a superficial opinion that is popular only when socioeconomic conditions are dysfunctional, and is collapsing in the western democracies, has been covered in Newsweek, USA Today and The Guardian. This platform will cover material that is being presented by Greg at a conference in Copenhagen in the summer of 2010. Gregory Paul has been labeled the church's public enemy number one by MSNBC, and denounced as unAmerican in the Wall Street Journal. His popular essays are found in Washington Post/On Faith (newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2009/11/defending_darwins_science_by_taming_social_darwinism.html; extended version at www.edge.org/#paul), Edge, Wall Street Journal Weekend Magazine (early January 2010), Free Inquiry, Dissident Voice, Daily Kos, OpEdNews. For directions, see Feb. 14 meeting.
For a description of the topics for BSH events and directions, click here.
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Link to Why the Gods are not Winning, by Gregory Paul and Phil Zuckerman , and other Greg Paul articles. The Real Reason the Religious Right is Losing America, by Gregory Paul, OpEdNews 12/16/07 |
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Baltimore Secular Humanists is a participant in the Baltimore Coalition of Reason (BaltimoreCOR), sponsored by the UnitedCOR Copyright © 2010Washington Area Secular Humanists, Inc. |
