News Archives for February, 2008

Celebrating the Opening of CFI Low Countries

February 29, 2008

A new branch of Center for Inquiry Transnational in the the Netherlands and Belgium - together called the Low Countries.

According to Jonathan Israel in his works Radical Enlightenment and The Enlightenment Contested the Low Countries are the birth place of the early, radical and atheistic …Full Entry »

Portland, Oregon, Joins CFI’s Family of Communities

February 25, 2008

Science, Reason, and Free Inquiry come to the Pacific Northwest Full Entry »

New Position Paper: Assistance in Dying for the Terminally Ill

February 22, 2008

Few issues in bioethics have received as much sustained attention as the question of whether the terminally ill should have the right to hasten their deaths through prescribed medication, a practice known as assisted suicide or assistance in dying. This question has been debated in Congress, state legislatures, the …Full Entry »

Opening Launch of Center for Inquiry London

February 05, 2008

Held at Conway Hall, London on 18th January 2008, CFI London's inaugural event proved very successful with leading lights from the British and American academic, skeptical, secular and humanist communities speaking and participating in discussions. Nearly 150 people attended the day and evening event, and included delegates from the British Isles, Scandanavia, Eastern and Western Europe and the US. Full Entry »