I am also glad that he is doing the speech pro bono.
On Jan 24, 8:05 pm, "Jason (Memphis)" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> The venue depends what our goals is: 1) memberships or 2) community
> exposure to the scientific ideas .... or both. If we want membership,
> we have to do face-to-face (or at least that is what works best based
> on past experience).
>
> The reason that I recommended a church is that you have a captive
> audience on Sunday. However, Preston has some points about whether
> atheists/agnostics who are new to the scene will attend the event at a
> church and whether or not we will be able to mingle with potential new
> members--at least I think those were his implied points. I don't
> know. We've never done an event at a church venue but Victor Stenger
> could do a plug for our group at the beginning of his speech. Also,
> if Stenger has a talk such as "God: The Failed Hypothesis" that might
> get people to venture into a church. As far as the U of M venue,
> students will only attend in large numbers if it (1) is required for a
> class or at least students' get credit and (2) doesn't coincide with
> church service.
>
> So whatever works best to promote our mission and there may be
> arguments for each venue.
>
> On Jan 24, 11:07 am, Clogtowner <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi y'all - info for all members. MFA has engaged Victor Stenger to
> > speak on Sunday October 18th - venue to be decided.
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