The Center for Inquiry-Los Angeles wants to gather freethinkers and rational people in a purely social setting. We want to introduce people who share a common rational worldview - that is, the idea that the universe operates on principles and ideas which are or will be explained by science and rational means. Paranormal and religious followers have, in many ways, dominated the media and the culture. Consequently, many skeptics and non-religious people experience a feeling of isolation in their communities, and even among friends and family. We seek to erase that feeling by getting some of the thousands of freethinkers and rationalists in the area together.
We sincerely hope you'll join us.
Click on the links below to jump to different
groups and meetings.
OC Skeptics Supper Club
CFI Community of Orange County
The Fullerton Atheists and Agnostics
Students for Science and Skepticism
Victor J. Stenger
What Can Science Say About God and the
Afterlife?
Sunday, Feb. 21
4:30 p.m.
The claim has been
made that reason and science supply new and persuasive
evidence for the existence of God and the afterlife. A
creator God is said to be supported by the apparent
fine-tuning of the physical parameters of the universe to
make like possible. The afterlife is suggested by studies of
past-life memories, near-death experiences, and various
paranormal claims. Furthermore, quantum mechanics has
supposedly provided reason to believe that consciousness is a
separate entity from our bodies and brains and thus able to
survive death. New
York Times bestselling author Vic Stenger will
examine these claims from the point of view of a physicist
who spent forty years studying the fundamental structure of
the universe.
Stenger, who received a doctorate in Physics from UCLA in 1963, taught at the University of Hawaii, retiring to Colorado in 2000. He is currently am adjunct professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado and emeritus professor of physics at the University of Hawaii. Dr. Stenger has also held visiting positions on the faculties of universities in Germany, England, and Italy.
Dr. Stenger's distinguished research career has spanned the period of great progress in elementary particle physics to very high-energy gamma ray and neutrino astronomy. He also is the author of nine critically acclaimed popular science books about physics, cosmology, philosophy, religion, and pseudoscience. His 2007 book, God: The Failed Hypothesis. How Science Shows that God Does Not Exist, was a New York Times bestseller. His latest books, which came out in 2009, are Quantum Gods and The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason.
$8, or free
for Friends of the Center.
$4 for students.
Held at the
Costa Mesa Community Center
1845 Park Ave., Costa Mesa, CA 92627
1 block west of Newport and Harbor Blvd.
IMPORTANT NOTE: WE’RE TRYING DIFFERENT DAYS OF THE MONTH SO AS NOT TO CONFLICT WITH OTHER LOCAL GROUPS, AND FOR THE BEST AVAILABILITY OF THE MOST PEOPLE. Please mark your calendar accordingly!
Wednesday March 17th: skeptics, humanists, freethinkers, atheists, agnostics, pagans, and all other non-believers and inquiring minds are once again meeting for dinner and social discourse! Dave Richards be on the JREF Amaz!ng Cruise to the Caribbean, Bruce Gleason will be hosting the supper in his absence this month.
We’ve enjoyed The Red Lobster in Garden Grove previously – we’re giving it another shot this month. Once again here is the location:
Red Lobster
12892 Harbor Boulevard
Garden Grove, CA 92840
(714) 638-9500
map
(At the intersection of Harbor Blvd and Garden Grove Blvd Ave, a block North of the 22 fwy)
The time will be 7:30 to approx 9pm. When you arrive, ask for OC Freethinkers and Skeptics.
For more info, please contact Dave Richards at: david[at]iigwest.com.
CFI Community of Orange County
For information, email Dave Richards
david[at]iigwest.com.
The Fullerton Atheists and Agnostics
A chapter of the
Campus Freethought Alliance. Please contact Fullerton
Atheists and Agnostics president Brandon Johns at
fullertonskeptics[at]shoutmail.com, or phone (909) 924-1885 for more info.
Students for Science and Skepticism
at University of California,
Irvine
http://spirit.dos.uci.edu/sss.
Fax and voice mail: 1-206-201-8828.
