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Once upon a time we enjoyed regular writing from members of our community. That has dropped off, but we'd like to keep their work available for future readers. Enjoy.

SCSU SSA has its ducks in a row

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Created: 18 November 2009

Already, only a few weeks after gaining official organization status at SCSU, the new Secular Student Alliance chapter has a great website, a Facebook page, a YouTube channel, a Twitter profile, and a weekly meeting agenda. Great job!

What can you do to help? Join! Become a member of their Facebook group. Follow them on Twitter. Donate. Participate!

We have their blog feed on the front page, and we will also show their Google calendar with ours.

Best of luck to the new team, and thanks for your hard work!

 

Forum updated

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Created: 10 November 2009

NOTE: The forum and site logins are now one and the same. Register on the home page for access to the forum and any private site content.

I've converted our Simple Machines discussion forum to a native Joomla component forum, Agora. Most of the data from SMF was transferred, but it appears that private messages were lost.

Also, I'm not sure whether your passwords remain as you registered them. Please let me know if you have trouble logging in.

This should be the last site overhaul for a while. I think I have things set up nicely and intend to stop monkeying around now. Thanks for your patience.

Don't be a slave to your end

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Created: 08 November 2009

November Newsletter

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Created: 06 November 2009

Here's our November newsletter. Thanks as always to our volunteer publisher.

This month's meeting will be at the UU hall, 7 p.m.  Monday the 16th. We won't have a December meeting, but watch for notice of a solstice party and coffee socials. January's meeting will be at the library

Hope to see you there!

PZ Myers "Should Intelligent Design Be Taught In The Schools?"

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Created: 06 November 2009

Dr. Jerry Bergman and Dr. PZ Myers will be debating the topic: "Should Intelligent Design Be Taught In The Schools?"

This event is sponsored by the Christian Student Fellowship and Campus Atheists, Skeptics and Humanists.

The event is held at the North Star Ballroom, St. Paul Student Center (Buford Ave. near Cleveland Ave.)

Dr Jerry Bergman, Ph.D., Biology

Biography

Jerry Bergman has taught biology, genetics, chemistry, biochemistry, anthropology, geology, and microbiology at Northwest State College in Archbold OH for over 17 years. Now completing his 9th degree, Dr Bergman is a graduate of Medical College of Ohio, Wayne State University in Detroit, The University of Toledo, and Bowling Green State University. He has over 600 publications in 12 languages and 20 books and monographs. He has also taught at the Medical College of Ohio where was a research associate in the department of experimental pathology, and he also taught 6 years at the University of Toledo, and 7 years at Bowling Green State University.

Among his books is a monograph on peer evaluation published by the College Student Journal Press, a Fastback on the creation-evolution controversy published by Phi Delta Kappa, a book on vestigial organs with Dr George Howe (‘Vestigial Organs’ are Fully Functional), a book on psychology and religious cults, a book on religious discrimination published by Onesimus Press, and a book on mental health published by Claudius Verlag in München. He has also published a college textbook on evaluation (Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co.), and has contributed to dozens of other textbooks. He was also a consultant for over 20 science text books, mostly biology and biochemistry.

Dr Bergman has presented over one hundred scientific papers at professional and community meetings in the United States, Canada, and Europe. To discuss his research, he has been a featured speaker on many college campuses throughout the United States and Europe, and is a frequent guest on radio and television programs. His research has made the front page in newspapers throughout the country, has been featured by the Paul Harvey Show several times, and has been discussed by David Brinkley, Chuck Colson, and other nationally known commentators on national television.

His other work experience includes over ten years experience at various Mental Health/Psychology clinics as a licensed professional clinical counselor and three years full time corrections research for a large county circuit court in Michigan and inside the walls of Jackson Prison (SPSM), the largest walled prison in the world. He has also served as a consultant for CBS News, ABC News, Reader’s Digest, Amnesty International, several government agencies and for two Nobel Prize winners, including the inventor of the transistor. In the past decade he has consulted or has testified as an expert witness or consultant in almost one-hundred court cases. A Fellow of the American Scientific Association, member of The National Association for the Advancement of Science, and many other professional associations, he is listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the Midwest and in Who’s Who in Science and Religion.

Dr PZ Myers

Paul Zachary "PZ" Myers (born March 9, 1957) is an American biology professor at the University of Minnesota Morris (UMM) and the author of the science blog Pharyngula. He is currently an associate professor of biology at UMM,[1] works with zebrafish in the field of evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo), and also cultivates an interest in cephalopods. He is a public critic of intelligent design (ID) and of the creationist movement in general and is an activist in the American creation-evolution controversy.

Host:
Twin Cities Atheists
Type:
Education - Lecture
Network:
Global
Date:
Monday, November 16, 2009
Time:
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Location:
St Paul Student Center, University of Minnesota St. Paul Campus
Street:
2017 Buford Ave S

Treasurer's Report

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Created: 05 November 2009

Bill, our treasurer, has provided the following information. As of 10/2/09, CMFFoT has the following funds available:

Checking account: $251.76
Paypal account: $15.87

Total: $267.63

We have received $96 in contributions in the last month (minus Paypal fees).

  1. "I said LESS offensive!"
  2. A million New Yorkers are good without god.
  3. Amazon confusing lunacy with Darwin
  4. The Humanist Perspective TV series collection on DVD
  5. Coffee Social Saturday, 10/31/09

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