Andrew and I went out and tabled on Monday from around 1:30 to around 4:30. We used the poster as you saw it at the last meeting, but hope to be able to put it in final form shortly. We just stood by the poster, holding the little business card cutouts, and talked to a lot of people. We gave away some CFI materials, and some CSH materials.
We didn't push the cards on people, and in fact basically waited until they asked for more information before offering one, yet still managed to give away the whole stack (~25). The campus preacher who was out there at the time, Joey Johnsen, gave us some attention during a few of his sermons. I think he did us more good than he meant to though, as quite a few people came up to our table and said something along the lines of, "Guys like him make me want to join your group."
Andrew said he may write up some more details on this later, so I'll leave the rest for him.
Some good news/notifications: 1) Andrew Duncan is the new VP; 2) Sam Justyn is the new treasurer; 3) Brandon Smock is our historian. We're now at 76 persons on our Facebook group! Thanks for making AAFSA what it is, and for moving it towards what we all know it can and will be.
A side note: yesterday, I spent about an hour arguing with a new campus preacher I'd never met before about young-earth creationism arguments. He threw out all the good old YEC canards, from moon-dust thickness, to "mountains should be worn down by old-earth erosion rates", while the moon-dust arguments (and others) are so bad (dishonest) that they are even rejected by OTHER CREATIONISTS! I strongly suggest you familiarize yourself with the resources here, where nearly every creationist claim is presented and mercilessly refuted with scientific data and publications (see complete list here). I just bought the paperback version of this compilation, and I think you'll not regret it if you choose to do the same. I plan to bring it out with me whenever it arrives and hurt some peoples' feelings. ;)
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Andrew said he may write up some more details on this later, so I'll leave the rest for him.
Some good news/notifications: 1) Andrew Duncan is the new VP; 2) Sam Justyn is the new treasurer; 3) Brandon Smock is our historian. We're now at 76 persons on our Facebook group! Thanks for making AAFSA what it is, and for moving it towards what we all know it can and will be.
A side note: yesterday, I spent about an hour arguing with a new campus preacher I'd never met before about young-earth creationism arguments. He threw out all the good old YEC canards, from moon-dust thickness, to "mountains should be worn down by old-earth erosion rates", while the moon-dust arguments (and others) are so bad (dishonest) that they are even rejected by OTHER CREATIONISTS! I strongly suggest you familiarize yourself with the resources here, where nearly every creationist claim is presented and mercilessly refuted with scientific data and publications (see complete list here). I just bought the paperback version of this compilation, and I think you'll not regret it if you choose to do the same. I plan to bring it out with me whenever it arrives and hurt some peoples' feelings. ;)
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