Archives for November 2013

Launch of Island Adventurer Exhibition

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

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Q&As from In Conversation with AC Grayling

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Selected Questions & Answers from In Conversation with AC Grayling

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…]