Atheist Soc
A society for atheists, rationalists, secularists and humanists
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7 March 2008
The Rileys nominations are open
Nominations for the union's society awards, The Rileys, are now open. So if you think A-Soc should be nominated head over to the union's website and fill the form out.
18 February 2008
Darwin Day videos are up
Norm's talk on social evolution is now available as a video for the people that missed the talk - head over to the videos section of the website to watch.
13 February 2008
Rationalist Week 2008
I'm pleased to announce the date for Rationalist Week 2008 has now been set - 14 April to 18 April which is the first week back after Easter! It should be another amazing week and a fantastic opportunity to get involved with the society.
12 February 2008
Darwin Day
Don't forget guys - today is Darwin Day! We will be outside the union pretty much all day talking to people, handing out information and selling cakes too. With a talk on at 1pm and 7pm you have no excuse not to turn up :p.
29 January 2008
Get your debating shoes on
First of all next week is Why Jesus? Week which is the re-named Mission Week for the Christian Union. Carl tells me there will be events going it all times of the day with Club Mission running through the night on Tuesday and Friday.
Secondly, the week starting February 18th is Discover Islam week. I don't have any information on this year's event yet but it will no doubt feature a selection of events each evening.
29 January 2008
One Life has begun
One Life got up to a good start on Thursday. We got quite a crowd down there and got some really good discussion going.
If you missed it then come along this Thursday and see what you think. The topic this week is about truth and beauty.
15 January 2008
Richard Dawkins is a popular guy
Just looking at the statistics for the videos uploaded to YouTube from Atheist Week.
By far the most popular is the debate "Richard Dawkins - positive or negative?" which has been watched by over 1,000 people!
Gijsbert Stoet's talk "What's wrong with agnosticism?" is also proving rather popular.
9 January 2008
Back on the metaphorical road
After a few weeks break over the holidays while the university was closed we're back as of last night when we held our first meeting of 2008!
Things should really get going next week once a lot of people have finished their exams and have a bit more free time. Plus the week after we're starting our One Life course so it's all happening!
27 December 2007
Holiday greetings
In the spirit of maintaining regular blog posts, merry winter solstice everyone!
The time of present giving being for the most part over means the society has been able to cash in on the January sales (which now start online on December 23rd apparently lol) in preparation for next year's activities.
Along those lines Monty Python's Life of Brian arrived this morning ready for it's screening next month. Not an event to miss!
19 December 2007
New web server
We've run into some real downtime problems recently so we've now moved to a new, hopefully more stable web server. So major downtime should be a thing of the past.