We are thrilled to announce the Western Canadian Reason Conference, 2025!

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Planning is well under way for our third conference. It will be held May 2nd to 4th 2025 at the Sandman Hotel in Downtown Calgary. Stay tuned for more details and hopefully deals! The whole conference including receptions, speakers and vendors will be at the Sandman. It is on the corner of 8th St and 7th Ave SW, on the CTrain line for easy access.

In addition to the date and venue we are elated to announce that Seth Andrews has already agreed to return for 2025. Seth is the host of The Thinking Atheist podcast and both entertained and educated us at the first conference in 2023.

Seth Andrews – Keynote Speaker

Seth Andrews is a former evangelical and Christian broadcaster who now hosts The Thinking Atheist…one of the most popular podcasts and online atheist communities in the world. The Thinking Atheist is not a person. It is an icon encouraging all to reject faith and pursue reason and evidence. 

Seth has authored five books, including his latest offering, “Christianity Made Me Talk Like an Idiot.” He also hosts a second podcast, “True Stories with Seth Andrews.”

With a mix of humor and heart, Seth Andrews has spoken for audiences large and small in the U.S, Canada, Europe, and Australia about his former faith, the promotion of science and skepticism, the importance of Humanism in this often crazy world, and why we should all pursue a personal relationship with reality.

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Forrest Valkai – Featured Speaker

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Forrest is a biologist and a science communicator. He uses his platform to teach exciting science lessons, promote compassion and skepticism, and share his boundless love for life with audiences of all ages. Official Website – ValkaiLabs.com. Forrest is also the Renegade Science Teacher on YouTube.

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Dr Eugenie Scott

Dr. Eugenie C. Scott is the former Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education, Inc., a not-for-profit membership organization of scientists, teachers, and others that works to improve the teaching of science as a way of knowing, the teaching of evolution, and the teaching of climate change. A former college professor, Dr. Scott is an internationally-known expert on the creationism and evolution controversy and science denialism and is called upon by the press and other media to explain science to the general public. The author of Evolution vs Creationism: An Introduction and co-editor with Glenn Branch of Not in Our Classrooms: Why Intelligent Design is Wrong for our Schools, she is the recipient of numerous awards from scientists and educators, and has been awarded ten honorary degrees. Asteroid ‘249540 Eugeniescott’ was named for her in 2014.

Dr Scott will be speaking on “Why Kitzmiller v Dover is relevant 20 years later“. Kitzmiller vs Dover was a 2005 federal district court trial over the legality of a small Pennsylvania town’s requirement of the teaching of “intelligent design theory” (ID). The judge ruled that ID was a form of creationism, violated the First Amendment of the Constitution, and was therefore illegal to advocate in the public school classroom.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenie_Scott

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All the videos from our 2024 Speakers can be found here. Take a look and see what you missed or remember the great speakers we had.

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Please note that all the Speakers are choosing their own topics and own their presentations. WeCanReason and Rocky Mountain Atheists do not review or edit any part of them. The views expressed are solely those of the Speaker. WeCanReason is about critical thinking; disagreements should be resolved in a constructive manner and without personal attacks. Challenge ideas not people.