Fayetteville Freethinker Meeting

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Fayetteville Freethinker Meeting February 15, 2006
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Bruce Hornsby
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James Randi has an international reputation as a
magician and escape artist, but today he is best
known as the world's most tireless investigator
and demystifier of paranormal and
pseudoscientific claims.
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TAM4 began with Christopher Hitchens celebrating
Thomas Jefferson's Enlightenment views, whilst
pillorying those who fabricate "design" and want
to tear down the wall of separation.
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THE SOUL OF SCIENCE Bootstrapping Meaning,
Purpose and SpiritualityHow can we find
spiritual meaning and purpose in a scientific
worldview? Spirituality is a way of being in the
world, a sense of ones place in the cosmos, a
relationship to that which extends beyond our
selves. There are many sources of spirituality
religion may be the most common, but it is by no
means the only. Anything that generates a sense
of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science
does this in spades. Dr. Shermer shows how.
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Shermers New Booklet The Soul of Science
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In 1969, Professor Gell-Mann received the Nobel
Prize in physics for his work on the theory of
elementary particles and is author of the popular
science book, The Quark and the Jaguar,
Adventures in the Simple and the Complex.
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The Mythbusters!
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Ray Hyman hangin with the Dar man
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Law Professor Nadine Strossen is president of the
American Civil Liberties Union. She is the first
woman and the youngest person ever to lead the
ACLU. She also sits on the Council on Foreign
Relations.
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Magician and Comedian Mac King was named
Magician of the Year by the Magic Castle in
Hollywood, broke a Guinness World Record,just
appeared on his special for NBC, was voted the
6th best show in Las Vegas, and his new book from
has just entered its 5th printing.
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Dr. Carolyn Porco is a leader in the exploration
of the solar system. She wrote her thesis on
Voyager, has worked on the Mars Observer, the
Lunar Explorer, and Cassini. Her company produces
space imagery in an artistic and educational
manner.
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Professor Richard Wiseman holds Britains only
chair in the Public Understanding of Psychology
at the University of Hertfordshire. He has
published over forty papers in academic journals,
and gained an international reputation for
research into unusual areas of psychology,
including deception, luck and the paranormal.
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Ovation Award winner Julia Sweeney is best known
for her character Pat on Saturday Night Live, and
her acclaimed Broadway show "God Said, Ha!". She
has worked on the shows Sex the City and
Desperate Housewives and has written and
performed 2 one-woman monologues.
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Ellen Johnson
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Ellen Johnson is the President of American
Atheists, which defends the civil rights of
nonbelievers, works for the separation of church
and state, and addresses First Amendment issues.
A second-generation Atheist herself, she
organized the historic "Godless Americans March
on Washington" in 2002.
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