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Ingersoll Oratory Contest- Part 16 Awards - Steven LOWE
Ingersoll Oratory Contest- Part 15 Woody Lipinski
Ingersoll Oratory Contest- Part 14 Jim Hebblethwaite
Ingersoll Oratory Contest- Part 13 Don Evans
Ingersoll Oratory Contest- Part 12 Bill Creasy
Ingersoll Oratory Contest- Part 11 Donald Wharton
Ingersoll Oratory Contest- Part 10 Steven Jones
Ingersoll Oratory Contest- Part 9 Vincent Lyon
Ingersoll Oratory Contest- Part 8 Albert J. Rogers
Ingersoll Oratory Contest- Part 7 Kevin I. Slaughter
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The mission of the Center for Inquiry is to foster a secular society based on science, reason, freedom of inquiry, and humanist values.
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To oppose and supplant the mythological narratives of the past, and the dogmas of the present, the world needs an institution devoted to promoting science, reason, freedom of inquiry, and humanist values. The Center for Inquiry is that institution.

At the Center for Inquiry, we believe that evidence-based reasoning, in which humans work together to address common concerns, is critical for modern world civilization. Moreover, unlike many other institutions, we maintain that scientific methods and reasoning should be utilized in examining the claims of both pseudoscience and religion. We reject mysticism and blind faith. No topic should be placed off limits to scrutiny—certainly not fringe science and religion, which have an enormous influence on beliefs and conduct.

We also maintain that values are properly the subject of study and discussion as much as empirical claims. The Center for Inquiry studies and promotes human values based on a naturalistic outlook. Ideological doctrine and religious dogma have no more right to dictate our moral norms than they do to influence scientific research.

The Center for Inquiry supports research, but our mission activities go far beyond sound scholarship. The Center for Inquiry, and its affiliates, the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and the Council for Secular Humanism, also carry out their work through education, publishing, advocacy, and social services. The Center for Inquiry has established dozens of regional centers and communities, which provide educational programs and services on a local level and provide a venue for like-minded individuals to meet and share experiences. In addition, the Center for Inquiry has affiliates and sponsors programs in many different countries. A secular society ultimately should embrace all of humanity, not just selected countries.

In aiming to foster a secular society, we do not seek to abridge the rights of believers. We vigorously object to government support of religion and the use of religious dogma to justify public policy; we do not oppose the free exercise of religion. The secular society we are working to foster is a community of reason and compassion in which the dignity and fundamental rights of all individuals are respected.

Fostering a secular society requires attention to many specific goals, but three goals in particular represent the focus of our activities:

*an end to the influence that religion and pseudoscience have on public policy

*an end to the privileged position that religion and pseudoscience continue to enjoy in many societies

*an end to the stigma attached to being a nonbeliever, whether the nonbeliever describes her/himself as an atheist, agnostic, humanist, freethinker or skeptic.
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The God Who Wasn't There, Religulous, Root of All Evil?, COSMOS
Books:
The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins, End of Faith - Sam Harris, Breaking the Spell - Daniel Dennett, God is Not Great - Christopher Hitchens, Victor Stenger - God: The Failed Hypothesis, Forbidden Fruit - Paul Kurtz, Free Inquiry Magazine, Skeptical Inquirer Magazine
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Robert G. Ingersoll Oratory Contest, Dupont Circle, Washington, DC on October 4, 2009. 16 parts: Fourteen contestants read short excerpts from I...   more
 
 
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Channel Comments (40)
eliinaholic (1 week ago)
with psychology as a biology, i hope they cure mental illness with reasonable and evidence based treatment.
TheFunkyBuddhaa (2 weeks ago)
Woot for Science
kurtilein3 (2 weeks ago)
this is one of the finest channel on youtube, many great lectures can be found here.
marcthemartyr (3 weeks ago)
Science is cool !!!
SoSaCA100 (1 month ago)
And thanks for posting these video's; I really enjoyed watching them.Peace!
SoSaCA100 (1 month ago)
sense you are living in the U.S , do you know that a court judged that Atheism is a religion too? of course you can beg to differ with that,but not with me.you should take it to the court.
theboombody (1 month ago)
Don't I get constant offers in the mail to subscribe to one of your magazines simply because I got a natural sciences degree 6 years ago? I'm actually far more interested in surrealism now than science. I figure the world could use a little of both. The surrealist manifesto is quite interesting.
dewonthegrass (2 months ago)
Wonderful channel. Subbed immediately. :)
Forkroute (2 months ago)
Great Great channel.
Thank you
samara89kitten (2 months ago)
Thank You for your intelligence and informative videos. I have never been religious and can not fathom why people don't question and think for themselves. Lilly :)
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