One of our HSS members, Dr John van Whye, will be speaking at the Science Centre this Friday at the launch of a new exhibition on Alfred Russell Wallace. Details as follow and in the picture (click to enlarge). Dr John is a leading expert on the life of Darwin and has spoken at HSS’s Darwin Day.
Date: Friday 29 Nov 2013, 7.00pm
Venue: Maxwell Auditorium, Science Centre Singapore
Dress Code: Safari
How to attend: RSVP to Ms Jenny Leong at jmf_leong@science.edu.sg by 25 Nov 2013
Q: What advice do you have for a secular organisation that seeks to be a credible public voice for non-believers?
A: It is very important that people that don’t share the viewpoint of a secular organisation, a humanist organisation, should see that the members of that organisation are consistent, articulate and keen to put forward their views in a very responsible way. It does happen that there are organisations like the American Atheist Association which take a more robust stance in the sense that it is more challenging to the surrounding orthodoxy, partly to shock them into seeing there is an alternative point of view; and that is a strategy. [Read more…]
