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January 8, 2009 by Toni Van Pelt
CFI’s letter of support for Eric Holder to be attorney general
The Center for Inquiry, DC and Office of Public Policy will be opening its offices to Friends of the Center and interested parties from around the country who are interested in learning about our Center. In commemoration of the inauguration weekend, we would like to welcome anyone visiting our Nation’s Capital, as well as DC …
The Secular Humanist Bulletin , a publication of our affiliate, the Council for Secular Humanism , is running a humor contest, with the grand prize being a copy of The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief , signed by both Tom Flynn (the editor) and Richard Dawkins (who wrote the foreword.) The rules for the contest are …
December 16, 2008 by Debbie Goddard
In November 2008, the Secular Alliance of IU took a field trip to the infamous Creation Museum in Kentucky.
In a move designed to firm up faith-based opposition to embryonic stem cell research and other cutting-edge biomedical technologies, the Vatican has released a 32-page document titled “Dignitas Personae” – meaning “the dignity of a person.” The document condemns a host of procedures considered “immoral” by the Catholic Church, such as in vitro fertilization (IVF), …
Today we mark the sixtieth anniversary of the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and above all its affirmation of the freedom of thought, conscience, religion, and expression. At the United Nations General Assembly meeting in Paris in December 1948 at which the Declaration was adopted, Eleanor Roosevelt told the assembled delegates: “As …
"One man arrived at 6:20 a.m. to vote. By 7:00 a.m. when the polls opened, people were lined up down Hollywood Blvd. to participate in the democratic process." —Jim Underdown
The Institute at the Center for Inquiry offers courses in January 2009 organized around the theme “Positively Secular” that explain skepticism, scientific naturalism, constitutional secularism, and the replacement of religion by humanist ethics.