Responding to Evangelical Influence in American Public Life

May 31-June 1, 2003
The Doral Hotel
70 Park Avenue at 38th Street
New York, NY

The Center for Inquiry presents an extraordinary 2-day briefing on the increasing encroachment of evangelicism and fundamentalism in American politics, culture, and education. CFI founder and chair Paul Kurtz leads a panel of experts in discussing the latest developments in the anti-evolution movement, new threats to free inquiry in education, theology and geopolitics, faith-based initiatives, and much more. How can defenders of the secular and scientific outlook respond?

Featured panel speakers: Wendy Kaminer, lawyer and author; Paul R. Gross, coauthor of Higher Superstition and Creationism's Trojan Horse; Paul Kurtz, philosopher and author; Tom Flynn, editor of Free Inquiry magazine; DJ Grothe, director of campus programs at the Center for Inquiry; and Bill Cooke, international director at the Center for Inquiry.

The $79 registration fee includes luncheon and the 9 a.m.- 5 p.m. program on Saturday, continental breakfast and 9 a.m. - 12 noon program on Sunday. Register now by calling 1-800-634-1610. A downloadable PDF program and registration form is available at www.cfimetrony.org/CFI%20Seminar.pdf.

The Center for Inquiry is a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization that promotes reason and science in all human endeavors. Founded in 1995 by philosopher and author Paul Kurtz, the Center is home to the Council for Secular Humanism, publisher of Free Inquiry magazine, and the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), publisher of Skeptical Inquirer magazine. For more information about the Center for Inquiry, visit the organization's official Web site at www.centerforinquiry.net.