Please join us at 11 a.m. on the first and third Sundays of every month for our FEED YOUR BRAIN programs.

These events feature fascinating authors, scholars, and luminaries from many fields that expand our knowledge and understanding of the world and the people who inhabit it. CFI's naturalistic approach to wisdom holds that there is no issue exempt from examination and discussion.

On third Sundays, the lecture is repeated at 4:30 p.m. in Costa Mesa, at the Community Center at 1845 Park Avenue.

Upcoming lectures/events:
 

2/10	-	A Special FEED YOUR BRAIN Event! Darwin Day 2008 Celebrating Darwin Day with a Meeting of Minds
2/17	-	Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Self-Justification in Public and Private Life with Carol Tavris **in Hollywood only
2/17	-	The Lie Heard 'Round the World with David Hurwitz **in Costa Mesa only
3/2	-	What Hath God Wrought: Millennial and Utopian Movements in the Young Republic with Prof. Daniel Walker Howe
3/22	-	The Great Moral Divide in America Today with Paul Kurtz
3/30		The Secular Conscience with Austin Dacey
4/6	-	Religion and Politics: Can They Coexist? with Barry W. Lynn
4/20	-	The Apologists of Islam with Ibn Warraq
5/4		The War on Science: What Have We Learned? with Chris Mooney

Past lectures:
Toni Van Pelt, Defending Science and Secularism in the Nation's Capitol
A Special Tour of the Griffith Observatory
Douglas E. Hill, Ph.D., Fallacies: Where Arguments Go Wrong
Joseph Wagner, M.D., How Technology Has Reshaped War
Taner Edis, An Illusion of Harmony - Science and Religion in Islam
Nica Lalli, Nothing is Something to Believe In
Jody Myers, The Origin and Practice of the Kabbalah Religion
Lynne Kelly, Skepticism for Students and Adults: An Aussie Perspective
Eddie Tabash, The Threat of the Religious Right to Our Modern Freedoms
Gil Garcetti, Water is Key: Improving Health and Empowering Women in Africa
Screening: Bob Smith, U.S.A. with director Neil Abramson
Susan Derwin, What Surviving Auschwitz Reveals About Inhumanity Today
Victor Stenger, God: The Failed Hypothesis -- How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
Eric Scerri, The Periodic Table: Its Story and Significance
Michael L. Weinstein, With God on Our Side: Evangelicalism and America's Military
Screening: Flock of Dodos with fimmaker Randy Olson
Nathan Bupp, Up From Atheism: Humanism and the War of Ideas
Independent Investigations Group, $50,000 Paranormal Challenge
Amanda Roraback, The Theft of Islam
Jonathan Kirsch and R. Joseph Hoffmann, How Monotheism Imperils Western Civilization
James Underdown, An Unusual Look at the Ten Commandments
Andrew Ingersoll, Global Warming and Running Out of Oil in the 21st Century
Clash of the Titans II - Does God Exist? Tabash-Gastrich debate
David Koepsell, They Satirized my Prophet, Those Bastards! Blasphemy in South Park
Darwin Day Celebration 2007
Dr. Marty Klein, America's War on Sex
The Religious Roots of Anti-Semitism
R. Joseph Hoffmann, The Birth of the Messiah Legend
Ronald Hamburger, Conspiracy or Science: Why Did the Towers Fall?
Tom Flynn, Is There Really a War on Christmas?
Jonathan Kirsch, A History of the End of the World
Monique El-Faizy, God and Country: How Evangelicals Have Become Mainstream
Paul Kurtz, Planetary Humanism: A New Paradigm
Craig Stanford, Upright: Great Apes and Human Origins
Trey Stokes, Alien Autopsy: Case Closed!
The Ethics of Dropping the Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Ben Alba, How Steve Allen Invented Late Night TV
Tim Delaney, The Social Meanings of Seinfeld
David Ulin, Literary Nonfiction: Ethics or Aesthetics?
Paradise Lost: Revelations Film Screening and Discussion Panel

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