Name: CFIC T.O.: Science and Philosophy Book Club
Start: 2016-11-28T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2016-11-28T21:00:00-05:00
Location: The Duke of Kent, 2315 Yonge St.

September 2016
A Talk by Gary Bauslaugh – Assisted Death in Canada – What Went Wrong

September 29, 2016 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Mount Royal University, Room EA 1004 (Faculty of Arts) 75 Mount Royal College, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

View this event on Meetup. Gary Bauslaugh is the author of three books related to assisted death in Canada; his most recent (The Right to Die, April 2016) tells the stories of the courageous Canadians, from the 1940s to the present, whose often heroic actions helped create a climate of acceptance of the idea that...
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October 2016
CFIC T.O. Counter Apologetics Group

October 6, 2016 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Counter-apologetics is a field of thought that criticizes religious apologetics. Luke Muehlhauser, the former executive director of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, defines counter-apologetics as “a response to Christian apologetics…examining the claims and tactics of Christian apologists and then equipping [a thinker] with skeptical responses to them”. Join your host and CFI Canada member Lee...
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CFI Calgary – Faith on the Plate 2.0 – Dr. Camille D. Ryan

October 20, 2016 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Mount Royal University, Room EA 1024 (Faculty of Arts)

The facts and fiction of food production in an information-rich world. A skeptic’s guide to the hype around the science of agriculture and food. What does “organic” mean? Are GM foods “dangerous”? What are the facts of agriculture and food production? Dr. Camille D. Ryan – Social Sciences Lead at Monsanto Company; Professional Affiliate at...
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November 2016
CFI Calgary – Carl Sagan Day Celebration!

November 17, 2016 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Dickens Pub 1000 9 Ave. S.W., Calgary, Alberta, Canada

It’s CFI Calgary’s 4th Annual Carl Sagan Day Celebration. Join us at Dickens Pub. Although Carl Sagan’s birthday is really November 9th, our celebration will be on Thursday, November 17th. “Alberta’s Cosmic Calendar” Chapters in Earth history that we can see in the rocks here, and Cosmic history in the stars above us. Our speaker,...
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CFIC T.O.: Science and Philosophy Book Club

November 28, 2016 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

The Duke of Kent, 2315 Yonge St.

This month’s book club will be hosted by, Tarek E. The goal is to provide a friendly, free-thinking environment in which to discuss books that inspire rewarding conversation on subjects related to science and philosophy. Suggested donation is $5. THIS MONTH’S BOOK SELECTION: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari 100,000 years ago, at...
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