The Northwest Freethought conference, Darwin@200, is filling up! Be sure to reserve your spot now!
Keynote speakers
- Dr. David Domke, author of “The God Strategy” and “God Willing? Political Fundamentalism in the White House” will be sharing ideas from his books and current events.
- Dr. Bob Park, author of “Superstition: Belief in the Age of Science” and “Voodoo Science: The Road from foolishness to Fraud”, will share ideas from his research.
- Roy Speckhardt is the Executive Director of the American Humanist Association, and a board member of The Humanist Institute. He’s also an advisory board member of the Secular Student Alliance and the Women’s Law & Public Policy Fellowship Program.
Some of the very interesting workshops and speakers include:
- Debating Darwin deniers: Jim Corbett, of the Humanists of North Puget Sound and Humanists of Washington, will show how to counter non-scientific statements/arguments, based on debates he’s had with evolution deniers.
- Reform at Victory: Michele Ulriksen, author of “Reform at Victory: A Survivor’s Story,” will share her experiences of being shipped off to a fundamentalist Baptist reform school (boot camp) when she was 16.
- Darwin’s Black Box: PSU professor Mitch Cruzan will talk about teaching Biology to non-Science majors and what beliefs about evolution college students bring to school with them.
- Hope for Skeptics: Jim Corbett presents his second workshop, one he’s also giving at the AHA conference in Phoenix in June. This one is about creating hope in a life that agnostics believe stops at death.
- Ten Myths about Evolution: The co-authors of “Top 10 Myths About Evolution,” Cameron McPherson Smith and Charles Sullivan, will share the core ideas of their book and reactions to it from a wide spectrum of readers.
- The Neuro-physiology of Peak Experiences: Dr. Josh Fost, author of “If Not God, Then What? Neuroscience, Aesthetics, and the Origins of the Transcendent”, will share some of his research in the neurophysiology of religious (and other peak) experiences.
You can register and pay online, and there is a one-day option available, housing, carpools and scholarships. Don’t miss this!
