Center for Inquiry
The Center for Inquiry strives to foster a secular society based on reason, science, freedom of inquiry, and humanist values. The Center for Inquiry (CFI) is a 501(c)(3) charitable nonprofit organization dedicated to defending science and critical thinking in examining religion. CFI’s vision is a world in which evidence, science, and compassion—rather than superstition, pseudoscience, or prejudice—guide public policy. To make a better world, we need to use our heads and our hearts. To confront the challenges that face us as a planetary civilization, we need to use the tools of science and reason guided by compassion and respect for the dignity of every individual. To move forward, we need to discard old superstitions, prejudices, and magical thinking and embrace facts, evidence, and critical thinking. It’s about more than whether or not God exists. It’s about more than whether ghosts roam among us, aliens hover above us, or psychics can see within us. The Center for Inquiry (CFI) strives to foster a society free of the dogmatic influence of religion and pseudoscience; a society inspired by the ideals of the Enlightenment, the wonders of science, and the limitless potential of human intelligence and creativity; a society in which beliefs are not granted the same rights as people, where the freedom of expression is enjoyed by all, and all ideas are open to the scrutiny of reason. Secular government. Free inquiry. Critical thinking. Humanist values. This is the Center for Inquiry.www.centerforinquiry.org
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Aug 31, 2026
MeganHOST
who
Elizabeth ShreeveGUEST
is the education director for the Center for Inquiry.
Elizabeth ShreeveGUEST
And I connected with her through TISE, through her program TISE, which is the Teacher Institute for Revolutionary Science.
Elizabeth ShreeveGUEST
Because several of my books have to do with evolution.
Margaret DowneyGUEST
Uh, if you have already participated in the public commentary, I wanna thank you very much, but I also want to thank a few organizations for promoting the public commentary opportunity, and joining the Thomas Paine Memorial Association's efforts.
Margaret DowneyGUEST
And they are, uh, Florida Veterans for Common Sense, the Free Thought Society, Center for Inquiry, the World Union of Deists, uh, the Steeple Free Thought Foundation, Secular Coalition for America, the Thomas Paine Historical Association, and of course, the Freedom From Religion Foundation, who went the extra mile by hosting me as a speaker today.
Annie Laurie GaylorHOST
Um, so, and we've also, um, got talking points and links up at FFRF Action Fund's website to make it easy for you.
Annie Laurie GaylorHOST
Especially if you're listening, you can just scroll down when you go to ffrfaction.org, and the featured action alert, which shows a photograph of a prototype of the monument with its sculptor, Zenos Frudakis-
Margaret DowneyGUEST
But I also want to thank a few organizations for promoting the public commentary opportunity, and joining the Thomas Paine Memorial Association's efforts.
Margaret DowneyGUEST
And they are, uh, Florida Veterans for Common Sense, the Free Thought Society, Center for Inquiry, the World Union of Deists, uh, the Steeple Free Thought Foundation, Secular Coalition for America, the Thomas Paine Historical Association, and of course, the Freedom From Religion Foundation, who went the extra mile by hosting me as a speaker today.
Annie Laurie GaylorHOST
Um, so and we've also, um, got talking points and links up at FFRF Action Fund's website to make it easy for you.
Annie Laurie GaylorHOST
Especially if you're listening, you can just scroll down when you go to ffrfaction.org, and the featured action alert, which shows a photograph of a prototype of the monument with its sculptor, Zenos Frudakis-
Susan GerbicGUEST
Also, we work on, um, we help with skeptic camps, which are these little tiny events I've been helping put on all over United States.
Susan GerbicGUEST
The Center for Inquiry, which is the biggest organization out there in the skeptic community, has been helping fund that as well, so we can get people back-
FlorioHOST
Mm
Susan GerbicGUEST
... to community organizations, small groups, lectures.