A event held at The Station on Monday 4th April. The event starts at 19:30.
"Don't let this woman fool you. She looks - doesn't she - just like the typical housewife; cool, comfortable, harmless. A dangerous woman. Make no mistake about that." No, not Alice Roberts........ but what the Daily Sketch said in 1955 after psychologist Margaret Knight presented two talks on BBC radio on the theme of morals without religion. It added “The Unholy Mrs. Knight is a menace.” But does history repeat itself? For Alice Roberts, the extraordinary backlash experienced by Margaret Knight, when she dared to express a humanist perspective on education, is shockingly familiar.
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In this illustrated talk Alice will reflect on Margaret Knight’s messages, showing the intellectual weakness of the case for theism, and combating the view that there can be no true morality without supernatural direction. Margaret Knight argued at length that the “social, or altruistic, impulses are the real source of morality, and that an ethic based on these impulses has far more claim on our allegiance than an ethic based on obedience to the commands of a God who created tapeworms and cancer-cells." With faith schools proliferating and the Church of England extending its power and influence in state education, Knight’s view is just as relevant today.
Bristolian, Professor Alice Roberts, is an anthropologist, biologist, former NHS doctor, television presenter and author. Since 2019, she has been President of Humanists UK. She grew up in Westbury-on-Trym, attending Westbury Church of England Primary School and Red Maids’ School. She studied medicine at Cardiff University, graduating in 1997, after which she was briefly a junior doctor in the NHS. From 1999 she worked as an anatomy lecturer at Bristol University. She received a PhD in paleopathology from Bristol University in 2008 and from 2009 to 2012 was a visiting fellow in both archaeology and anthropology. Alongside this she was Director of Anatomy at the NHS Severn Deanery School of Surgery. Since 2012 she has been Professor of the Public Engagement in Science at the University of Birmingham. A very familiar face on British TV, Alice has presented many science documentaries on the BBC and Channel 4 including Coast, Time Team Live, The Incredible Human Journey, Britain’s Most Historic Towns and recently Digging for Britain . In 2018 she co-presented the famous Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. She is also the author of many books including “The Little Book of Humanism”, (co-authored with Andrew Copson of Humanists UK), 'Incredible Human Journey', 'Celts' plus most recently 'Ancestors'.
There will be a book stall and Alice will pre-sign books purchased.
This is a ticketed event. It is FREE for members of Bristol Humanists. If you wish to join you can do so here https://www.bristolhumanists.com/membership. If you join before March 4th we guarantee you a FREE ticket. Or if you join on the night you will get your entry ticket money back! Tickets are £10, or £5 (concessions - low income/income support/student/pension credit)
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Tickets from Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/morals-without-religion-the-dangerous-woman-proposing-it-alice-roberts-tickets-280270646047?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
In this illustrated talk Alice will reflect on Margaret Knight’s messages, showing the intellectual weakness of the case for theism, and combating the view that there can be no true morality without supernatural direction. Margaret Knight argued at length that the “social, or altruistic, impulses are the real source of morality, and that an ethic based on these impulses has far more claim on our allegiance than an ethic based on obedience to the commands of a God who created tapeworms and cancer-cells." With faith schools proliferating and the Church of England extending its power and influence in state education, Knight’s view is just as relevant today.
Bristolian, Professor Alice Roberts, is an anthropologist, biologist, former NHS doctor, television presenter and author. Since 2019, she has been President of Humanists UK. She grew up in Westbury-on-Trym, attending Westbury Church of England Primary School and Red Maids’ School. She studied medicine at Cardiff University, graduating in 1997, after which she was briefly a junior doctor in the NHS. From 1999 she worked as an anatomy lecturer at Bristol University. She received a PhD in paleopathology from Bristol University in 2008 and from 2009 to 2012 was a visiting fellow in both archaeology and anthropology. Alongside this she was Director of Anatomy at the NHS Severn Deanery School of Surgery. Since 2012 she has been Professor of the Public Engagement in Science at the University of Birmingham. A very familiar face on British TV, Alice has presented many science documentaries on the BBC and Channel 4 including Coast, Time Team Live, The Incredible Human Journey, Britain’s Most Historic Towns and recently Digging for Britain . In 2018 she co-presented the famous Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. She is also the author of many books including “The Little Book of Humanism”, (co-authored with Andrew Copson of Humanists UK), 'Incredible Human Journey', 'Celts' plus most recently 'Ancestors'.
There will be a book stall and Alice will pre-sign books purchased.
This is a ticketed event. It is FREE for members of Bristol Humanists. If you wish to join you can do so here https://www.bristolhumanists.com/membership. If you join before March 4th we guarantee you a FREE ticket. Or if you join on the night you will get your entry ticket money back! Tickets are £10, or £5 (concessions - low income/income support/student/pension credit)
Entry requirements:
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