Rusty Macdonald Branch Library – Auditorium – Friday, June 11th, 6PM
225 Primrose Drive
Saskatoon, SK S7K 5E4
(306) 975-7600
Come out to a public film screening of “The Enemies of Reason“, followed by a discussion. Admission is free, but donations are appreciated.
Hosted by the Saskatoon Freethinkers and the Saskatoon Skeptics.
Agenda
6:15 pm Welcome
6:30 pm Film
8:15 pm Discussion
There will be coffee. We’ll probably continue the discussion at a pub – maybe the soccer centre (next door to the library) if the weather is good.
Film Summary
From the Richard Dawkins Website:
There are two ways of looking at the world – through faith and superstition or through the rigours of logic, observation and evidence – in other words, through reason. Reason and a respect for evidence are precious commodities, the source of human progress and our safeguard against fundamentalists and those who profit from obscuring the truth. Yet, today, society appears to be retreating from reason.
Apparently harmless but utterly irrational belief systems from astrology to New Age mysticism, clairvoyance to alternative health remedies are booming. Richard Dawkins confronts what he sees as an epidemic of irrational, superstitious thinking…
He explains the dangers the pick and mix of knowledge and nonsense poses in the internet age, and passionately re-states the case for reason and science.
