The following was posted from our contact site:

Citizens Project is excited to present their inaugural Citizen's Religious Freedom Institute, a one day seminar on religion in public schools.

This will be held April 17th, 2010 at The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

This seminar is for teachers, students, parents, administrators, staff, school board members, and open to the public.

If there is sufficient enrollment the program will be repeated on the 18th.

See:
www.citizensproject.org for more information.

The Pikes Peak Skeptics Society invites you to Drinking Skeptically!

Location:

Rock Bottom Brewery 3316 Cinema Point Colorado Springs, CO 80922 (719) 550-3586

Currents in Stem Cell Research

by Karen Hall

What is the current status of stem cell research and where can it take us? Ms. Karen Hall is the Director of Laboratory Operations at HemoGenix, a cell research laboratory. Bring yourself and your stem cells to see what the future holds! There are amazing advances in the field of stem cell research. It does far more than make clones and drive fundamentalist Christians crazy! There will be handouts although you should expect to leave with only the stem cells you came with. We meet the 4th Wednesday at the GILL Foundation Building 315 East Costilla Street Colorado Springs, CO 80903-2105 at 7PM. Open to the Public.

Freethinkers have their very own on the ground helping in Haiti.Humanist Charities(HC)is working with Sebastian Velez, evolutionary biologist at Harvard University and director of the Children of the Border project.
Mr. Velez is currently in Haiti assessing the situation and will report back to Humanist Charities an organization that can receive funds directly to help with relief efforts. If none is found, HC will make a donation to the American Red Cross' International Response Fund on your behalf.

The Pikes Peak Skeptics Society is holding their monthly Drinking Skeptically event.

Drinking Skeptically is an informal social event designed to promote fellowship and networking among skeptics, critical-thinkers, and like-minded individuals.

Drinking Skeptically provides an opportunity for skeptics to talk, share ideas (and yes, drink) in a casual, relaxed atmosphere. We discuss the issues of the day and whatever else is on our minds. Most of all this event is about having fun.

Everyone is welcome even if you do not drink.

For more information please check out:

http://www.meetup.com/pikespeakskeptics/

Margaret Downey is one of the great activists of the Freethought movement. She has served on the boards of almost all of the national organizations and is immediate past president of Atheist Alliance International.

For millennia, humans have celebrated the winter solstice (the actual "reason for the seasons") at this time of year.

National Geographic: Winter Solstice 2009: Facts on Shortest Day of the Year

Why Darwin Matters

by

Michael Shermer

Freethinkers of Colorado Springs

Membership Meeting

7:00 to 9:00 PM

315 East Costilla in Colorado Springs

Freethought Discussion

An Open Discussion about Freethinking

and the growth of the Freethought Movement.

Freethinkers of Colorado Springs

Membership Meeting

7:00 to 9:00 PM

315 East Costilla in Colorado Springs

This month Dr. Victor Stenger will be talking about his upcoming book: "The New Atheism," which is to published by Prometheus Books in Fall 2009.

The Colorado Springs Skeptics invite you to their April monthly meeting.

Homeopathy is a billion dollar industry worldwide. While the highest sales for homeopathic remedies are in France, the sales in the United States continue to grow. Homeopathy is a great example of how alternative medicine differs from that of conventional medicine. The criticisms of homeopathy apply to other alternative health treatments as well – including Reiki, magnetic therapy, therapeutic touch, and acupuncture.

This month we will get a preview of John. R.'s Skepticamp talk: "Homeopathy: Medicine or Magic." What exactly is homeopathy? Does it have any basis in science? Is it effective? Why is its use becoming more accepted?

Location:
Cheyenne Mountain Library
1785 South 8th Street
Colorado Springs, CO 80906
(719) 633-6278

THE STATE OF ISREAL AND THE PEOPLE OF PALESTINE:  

BRINGING JUSTICE AND PEACE TO THE MIDDLE EAST

 Bill and Genie Durland

April 22, 2009

7:00 - 9:00 PM

315 East Costilla Street

Join us in watching part of the television documentary, "The Enemies of Reason: The Irrational Health Service," written and presented by Richard Dawkins. The documentary was broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK in 2007. If time permits the uncut interviews with Deepak Chopra and homeopath Dr. Peter Fisher will be included. Dawkins is critical of alternative medicine because it fails to meet the objective and statistical rigor that is required for conventional, scientifically based treatments. Homeopathy is a perfect example. In the United Kingdom the National Health Service uses taxpayers dollars to fund homeopathy despite there being no scientific rational for its use or any demonstrable effect on health beyond that of the placebo effect. Afterwards, there will be an open discussion. Freethinkers strive to base their beliefs upon facts, logic, and scientific inquiry. This applies to all areas of life, not just to religion. What is the best way of promoting rational thinking? Are the outspoken, and sometimes confrontational, methods of Richard Dawkins, PZ Myers, Christopher Hitchens, and James Randi the best ways to promote critical thinking of both pseudoscience and religion? Or should religious faith be treated differently?

Freethinkers of Colorado Springs

Membership Meeting

7:00 to 9:00 PM

315 East Costilla in Colorado Springs