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18:30

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A Member of the Society will lead a discussion on a current topic - come and participate. All welcome. (unless a speaker is arranged - watch this space)

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18:30

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Caroline Moles will introduce a discussion about Archbishops and Sharia Law - What is Going On? If anyone has press cuttings of interest on this topic do feel encouraged to bring them.
This replaces Terry Liddle's planned talk on Slavery Ancient and Modern, already postponed from last December. We all hope that he will make a full recovery soon, and that we will be able to welcome him in the summer for his talk.

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18:30

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John, now a professor we have to mention, because it took so long for this massively published writer to get there, reveals all you need to know about this …er… crack force within the US military.

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19:30

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Harry Perry will introduce a debate on the topic Race and Intelligence. Harry writes:
Are either of these concepts intelligible? Geneticists tend to say "race" is a dud but we all [sic] tick the appropriate box on ethnic monitoring forms. Could natural selection have led to different levels of intelligence in different populations? IQ researchers say the data on intelligence cannot lie but are white Brits happy that the Chinese are cleverer? Why does the debate stir up so much emotion? Why have James Watson and others lost their jobs for arguing the case? If differences were proved would it lead directly to eugenics? What's wrong with eugenics anyway? Plenty to get your teeth into on this one! Background reading can be found for this topic simply by typing in the key words to your search engine: "Intelligence", "Race", "Eugenics", "Race IQ Gap"; etc. I look forward to seeing you there.

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18:30

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A Member of the Society will lead a discussion on a current topic - come and participate. All welcome.
George writes "I've invited Pennie Blatchford, suggesting that she raise the issue of Ken Ham and the Creationists and how we should approach them." See her leaflet here at the bottom of the page.

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