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“Truly Delinquent” – Dawkins and Nye Video from CSICon 2023, a Big Day in Greece, and Bad Mayo
February 16, 2024Happy Friday, everyone! Welcome to the Morning Heresy, CFI’s roundup of news and headlines for the reality-based community. Skeptical Inquirer has served up a blockbuster double-feature of CSICon 2023 videos. You can now watch the full-length video of Richard Dawkins’s keynote presentation, “Science, the Poetry of Reality, Jewel in Humanity’s Crown.” The second half of …
Science, the Poetry of Reality, Jewel in Humanity’s Crown | Richard Dawkins
February 15, 2024Richard Dawkins provides his thoughts in this wonderful lecture. The lecture will extol science as perhaps humanity’s greatest and proudest achievement. That invites accusations of “scientism” and arrogance. Science knows what it knows (a lot) but it also humbly knows what it doesn’t know (also a lot). There may be questions too deep even for …
Bill Nye and Richard Dawkins in Conversation
February 15, 2024We are proud to honor Bill Nye with the prestigious Richard Dawkins Award on Friday, October 27. Renowned evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins will present the award in-person, followed by a live, unscripted conversation between the two iconic science communicators on stage at CSICon 2023. You won’t want to miss this. Bill Nye is an American …
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TAKE ACTION: West Virginia: Tell Your State Legislator to Reject ‘Intelligent Design’ Bill
February 2, 2024Residents of West Virginia must take action to stop intelligent design from being taught in their public schools. The Center for Inquiry (CFI) is calling on its supporters to stand up for science, reject religious dogma, and help defeat S.B. 280. This legislation would allow teachers in West Virginia’s public schools to teach students intelligent …
TAKE ACTION: New Hampshire: Help Defeat Bill That Restricts Teaching Evolution
January 25, 2024The Center for Inquiry (CFI) is calling on its supporters to help defeat legislation in New Hampshire that restricts teaching evolution and promotes scientific illiteracy. H.B. 1206 is currently before the House Education Committee in the General Court of New Hampshire (the state’s legislature). The bill states that educators “shall not present unproved theories as …
Center for Inquiry Debuts Revised Secular Rescue Website for Endangered Atheists and Nonbelievers
Secular RescueJanuary 16, 2024
The Center for Inquiry (CFI) this week published a significant update to the website for its Secular Rescue program, which provides emergency assistance to secular rights advocates—specifically journalists, secular-freethought writers, and bloggers—in high-risk countries around the world who are under threat due to their beliefs or public statements. “More and more people the world over …
