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Secular Student Alliance eMpirical No. 40: OMFSM! 180+ Affiliate GroupsSubmitted by Lyz on Mon, 2009-11-02 19:54.
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November 4, 2009
To "celebrate" the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin's "Origin of Species," Living Waters Ministry is giving away hundreds of thousands of free copies of the book with a creationist introduction by Ray Comfort. The SSA has been working with the National Center for Science Education, The Brights' Net, the producers of "Flock of Dodos" and more to help you put on your own celebration. 
Along with Jonathan Sussman, I was one of the summer interns for the Secular Student Alliance during the summer of 2009. I chose to apply for this internship for many reasons, and was delighted to be awarded one of the available spots. By engaging with the SSA office staff as an intern I learned many things and gained a deeper appreciation of the scope and significance of the operations of the Secular Student Alliance.
Congratulations to Jon Adams of Utah State for winning the American Atheists' Chinn Scholarship. Each year, American Atheists gives three awards to atheist activists, among which are the $1,000 Chinn Scholarship for an LGBT non-theist. 
Secular Student Alliance member Todd Stiefel knows that 2009 has been a fantastic growth year for the Secular Student Alliance. He is offering a $50,000 matching challenge to the rest of the secular community to support the Secular Student Alliance.
Someone at the Creation Museum with us managed to snag this hilarious picture of our Senior Campus Organizer Lyz Liddell. Help us find the caption, thought bubble, or photoshopping genius to make it really worth posting on our office wall! 
Greg Epstein, the Humanist Chaplain at Harvard University, offers a look into the nonreligious community with his new release Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe. The book is the latest in a long line of secular pieces that have fueled a rise in community service within the nontheist youth movement.
The purpose of the Freethought Film Festival Foundation is to promote critical thinking, reason and freedom of inquiry through the medium of film. In November 2010, the FFFF will screen selected film submissions which best reflect its purpose at an annual Freethought Film Festival.
