Upcoming Humanist Events
Event
- Title:
- Is there a real difference between science and religion? asks Dr Harold Hillman
- When:
- 17/09/2009 18:30 - 20:30
- Where:
- Hughes Parry Hall (Chancellor's Room) - London
- Category:
- Talk Lecture
Description
"Most humanists naively hold that whereas religion is based on authority and irrational beliefs, science is rooted only in research and reasoning. Unfortunately, this is not quite true. They both have high priests, theologies, holy books and consensuses. Furthermore, much more of experiment, and its interpretation, is subjective, than is commonly believed. Also, since knowledge is power, the proponents of particular viewpoints have vested interests."
So argues Dr Harold Hillman who intends to explore with us the similarities and differences between modern science and religion.
Harold was the Reader in Physiology, and Director of the Unity Laboratory of Applied Neurobiology, at the University of Surrey, from 1968 until he retired in 1995. He has written 6 books, and about 170 papers on cells, brains and resuscitation.
An atheist for all his adult life he wrote his first article for the 'Freethinker' in 1953, and has continued to write many times for this journal. He has also written occasionally for the 'New Humanist', and the 'Skeptical Inquirer'.
In addition to membership of national organisations he has been active in local humanism as a member of both the Guildford and the Sutton groups for about 30 years, and as a founder member in 2003, and still an active member, of the Farnham group.
He is a neurobiologist and a general practitioner by profession.
Venue
- Venue:
- Hughes Parry Hall (Chancellor's Room) - Website
- Street:
- The Garden Halls 19-26 Cartwright Gardens
- ZIP:
- WC1H 9EF
- City:
- London
- Country:
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Description
Hughes Parry Hall is one of eight intercollegiate halls of the University of London.
The Hall is administered by a bursarial team that also exercises responsibility for Canterbury Hall. Since 1995, the Warden of Hughes Parry Hall has been Professor Martyn Rady; the Bursar is Fiona Elder.
With 300 residents, it is primarily intended for undergraduate students. The hall was opened in 1969 and its design and facilities bear witness to the exigencies of that time: bathroom facilities are shared; there is little by way of communal kitchen arrangements (although the hall provides both breakfast and evening meals); and the lifts are frequently broken (the hall is arranged as a tower block and has fourteen floors). There are squash courts, tv and games rooms, and a less than active student society. The hall also benefits from its location overlooking Cartwright Gardens in WC1 where tennis courts are available to residents. Every Christmas, the students are accustomed to wrap decorative paper around the life-size statue of John Cartwright (political reformer) in the Gardens that are named after him.
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