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Posted by Stephen Law on June 22, 2009
Debate – With CFI UK Provost Stephen Law and Alister McGrath, author of The Dawkins Delusion, Dawkins’ God, and A Fine-Tuned Universe: The Quest For God In Science And Theology. Thursday October 29th. Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, Holborn, London WC1R 4RL – Main Hall. 7th November 2009. 7pm. £5 on the door (£3 Humanist organizations). Free to Friends of CFI.
Posted by Stephen Law on June 18, 2009
UPCOMING EVENTS AT CONWAY HALL (main hall):
29th October, 2009. Thursday 7-9pm. Does The Natural World Point To God? with Stephen Law and Alister McGrath.
7th November, 2009. Saturday, 11am-3pm. MONSTERS FROM THE DEEP.
6th March, 2010. 11am-3pm. MONSTERS VS ALIENS. Alien visitation and monsters – a skeptical view…
15th May 2010. 11am-3pm. Topic to be announced.
SUNDAY TIMES OXFORD LITERARY FESTIVAL 2010 EVENTS -CHRIST CHURCH COLLEGE OXFORD (times to be announced).
Thursday 25th March 2010 – Trick or Treatment? Simon Singh
Friday 26th March – DOES SCIENCE REVEAL THE MIND OF GOD? John Polkinghorne vs. David Papineau. In the Big Marquee.
Saturday 27th March – Ben Goldacre
Also appearing: Richard Wiseman, Stephen Law and others… more details to follow
Posted by Stephen Law on April 20, 2009
Ever wondered whether there is some truth to sailors’s tales of monsters from the ocean’s depths? Dr Paxton, a scientist from the University of St Andrews, is one of the country’s most qualified cryptozoologists, and he will be running both a lecture and a workshop on monsters from the deep – mythical and real. The final running order of the day to be announced shortly.
website: http://www.creem.st-and.ac.uk/charles/Webpages/mainmonsters.htm
VENUE: Conway Hall Red Lion Square, London W1R
Time 11am-3pm (with good break for lunch)
Cost: £10 (£5 students and Humanist orgs
Book by sending a cheque with names of attendees To Suresh Lalvani, Ex Director CFIUK, Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London W1R. Or use credir or debit card via paypal – hit “Support cfiuk” button and follow instructions.More details:
Anecdotes, Statistics and Sea Monsters
Skeptics often argue that the evidence for anomalous phenomena is primarily anecdotal and hence not amenable to scientific scrutiny. However if conclusions are appropriately constrained, useful meaningful inferences can be drawn from anecdotal reports. In this talk Charles Paxton will demonstrate the contributions anecdotes can bring to our understanding of reported rare natural phenomena by uncovering some interesting statistical aspects of reports and discoveries of sea monsters from 1758 – 2000.
N.B. Have no fear this talk is not mathematical!
Ecology and Aquatic Monsters
By way of demos and experiments, this workshop will explore what ecology tells us about the probability and nature of unknown aquatic animals.
Dr Charles Paxton is a statistical ecologist at the University of St Andrews who, when not estimating population sizes of marine mammals and teaching courses in scientific thinking is writing a book on the real science behind reports of large unknown aquatic animals.
Charles is joined by Darren Naish, researcher at The University of Portsmouth, who will talk about about the ‘prehistoric survivor paradigm’ and what it means (or doesn’t mean) for ’sea monster’ sightings.
Posted by admin on April 2, 2009
Title: Science and Religion
Location: Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London W1R
Description: Baroness Mary Warnock, best-selling science writer Simon Singh, Scientist Jack Cohen and Stephen Law will be looking at God, the Big Bang and a host of science-and-religion related topics. Book now. Presented by CFI London and the Ethical Society, £10 (£5 student)
Read the full article here.
Start Time: 10:30
Date: 2009-04-25
End Time: 16:00
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