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New directions: Centers for Inquiry and human enrichment.(Editorial)(Editorial)
August 1, 2004... The Center for Inquiry (CFI) is the newest star on the cultural horizon. Readers of this magazine should by now be familiar with its existence. The Center for Inquiry-International in Amherst, New York, is headquarters of the Council for Secular Humanism, publisher of FREE INQUIRY. Since...

Religion and morality.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
August 1, 2004... Though I agree with much of the editorial by Paul Kurtz ("The Principles of Fairness contra 'Gott Mit Uns!'" June/ July 2004), I disagree with enough of what he said to make me uncomfortable with his brand of humanism, that is, "secular humanism." Dr. Kurtz contrasts principles of...

In search of the real George Bush.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
August 1, 2004... The devil is in the details. In the June/July 2004 issue of FREE INQUIRY magazine, I read of Edmund Cohen's fear that George Bush's intentions and actions so closely parallel notions of Christian fundamentalist theological world conquest. I believe it is a stretch to put forward such an...

Oh, the humanity.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
August 1, 2004... Gregory Stock's piece in your June/July 2004 issue ("From Regenerative Medicine to Human Design") is the sort of sane and thoughtful discussion that is needed to cut through all the hysterical nonsense surrounding the issue of biotechnology. I'd like to do him one better by arguing that...

What use is religion? Part 2.(Op-Ed)
August 1, 2004... In my previous column (FREE INQUIRY, June/July 2004), I raised the question of the Darwinian survival value of religion. Why, given that natural selection abhors waste and extravagance, is religious behavior a human universal? I discussed various suggestions of direct advantages to religion,...