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The American Humanist Association advocates progressive values and equality for humanists, atheists and freethinkers in the United States. We work to promote humanism--the idea that you can be good without a god.

Website: http://www.americanhumanist.org
Location: Washington, DC
Members: 734
Latest Activity: May 9

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Darwin Day is a global celebration of science and reason held on or around Feb. 12, the birthday anniversary of evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin.

On this website you can find all sorts of information about Charles Darwin and the International Darwin Day Foundation. If you are hosting a Darwin Day event, you can post information about it on our events listing. You can also locate Darwin Day programs near you by searching our events section.

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The AHA is proud to hold its 72nd Annual Conference in San Diego, CA, May 30-June 2, 2013 at the Bahia Resort Hotel. More details will be added soon. http://conference.americanhumanist.org/

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Comment by Aiden on April 28, 2010 at 9:22am: That would be why I prefaced my comment with "maybe I'm just arguing semantics". The word "divinity" just doesn't sit well with me.

Comment by Fred Edwords on April 28, 2010 at 8:36am: Perhaps we should look upon "divinity" in this context as just the standard name of a particular thing that no longer has to be just about studies related to gods. Another example of how words can lose their purely religious connotations might be secular nonprofit organizations that have "mission" statements.

Comment by GBM Harper on April 28, 2010 at 8:05am: Maybe it's more like a business school offering a degree on how to run a non-profit.

Comment by Aiden on April 28, 2010 at 7:47am: Maybe I'm just arguing semantics, but isn't Humanism in direct conflict with the very idea of "divinity" in its rejection of the supernatural and superstitious? It seems to me that having a Humanism track at Harvard Divinity School would be a paradoxical oxymoron, like someone being a Jewish Nazi (not to invoke Godwin's Law). That is, unless you're suggesting a broader Humanism to go beyond the secular into Religious humanism, such as Christian humanism, Jewish humanism and Buddhist humanism.

Comment by Jonathan P. Figdor on April 28, 2010 at 12:15am: Hey everyone. I just finished my thesis defense today at Harvard Divinity School and got an A on my MDiv (Master of Divinity) thesis: "The God That Fails: An Assessment of Theodicies Predicated on the God of Natural Theism." As a result, I am now qualified to graduate as the first Humanist (Atheist) MDiv to graduate from Harvard Divinity School.

If you're interested in studying Humanism at Harvard, particularly if you're interested in helping me and Greg Epstein bring Humanism to Harvard Divinity School as an official track, please visit the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard's website here: http://www.harvardhumanist.org/

Comment by Kevin Saldanha on April 6, 2010 at 7:03pm: My group, Humanist Canada on Atheist Nexus has been approved.
http://www.atheistnexus.org/group/humanistcanada

I have posted a short discussion article from Progressive Humanism (with a link at the bottom) to stimulate some discussion on the attitudes towards Humanism vs. Atheism.
http://www.atheistnexus.org/group/humanistcanada/forum/topics/human...
(It appears that you have already had the discussion that I am provoking there!)

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