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Sunday, January 22nd, 2012
Damian Allis on “Controversy in Science”
Listen to Damian Allis’s talk (35 MB). The file is large; please be patient while it loads.
The infinite unknown that is our universe is being studied by a finite number of people with finite budgets and a finite number of hours in the day, many of them with real jobs to boot. Opinion and intuition have served as double-edged swords throughout the practical application of the scientific method, often weighing down now-famous great leaps forward for reasons having nothing to do with science itself.
Damian will spend his time being both antagonistic and defensive as he discusses some of the history of now-obvious-but-previously-insane truths and facts gleaned from the scientific method, then will briefly describe his own work in the field of molecular manufacturing, an area of research previously seen as profoundly forward, then game-changing, then heretical, then highly suspect, and now increasingly academic, all without strong experimental evidence for or against for most of its history.
Damian Allis is research assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at Syracuse University.
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Saturday, November 19th, 2011
Mike Affleck on “How Christians Got It All Wrong”
Listen to Mike Affleck’s talk(46 MB). The file is large; please be patient while it loads.
Our November 2011 meeting featured a talk by Mike Affleck. In his talk he discusses the following:
“Two Jewish teachers emerged at the same time and in the same place: first century Judea. They offered two very different perspectives on the same catastrophic situation: Rome’s assault on the life of the Jews. The difference in their perspective has largely been lost in the surprising embrace of the teachings of John by followers of Jesus.
“John looked at Rome’s occupation of the Jewish Homeland and made a bold prediction: God is coming, soon, to make things right. Jesus looked at the same situation and concluded that John was very nearly right, but his timing was wrong. God is not coming soon. God’s kingdom is already here. Yet the followers of Jesus nearly universally side with John. How did it happen?”
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Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
David Cay Johnston on Taxes
Listen to David Cay Johnston’s talk (61 MB). The file is large, so please be patient while it loads.
Our October 2010 meeting featured a talk by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist David Cay Johnston. Johnston’s talk, “Taxes, Not What You Think,” can be heard by clicking the link above.
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