What is Center For Inquiry Tampa Bay?
The Center for Inquiry Tampa Bay offers an opportunity to put your principles into practice by joining other rationalists in working for positive change in society. The Center sponsors social events throughout the Tampa Bay area for freethinkers and skeptics, as well as intellectual programming, and assists with campus outreach. CFI Tampa Bay is the family-oriented community for freethinkers in West Central Florida.
CFI provides an ethical alternative to religious and paranormal worldviews. In this time of rising religiosity, anti-intellectualism and political turmoil on ethical issues, it is critical that rationalists and freethinkers join together to protect civil liberties, defend reason, and work toward increasing scientific literacy. Help yourself by helping us as we continue building the largest community of freethinkers in the Tampa Bay area: singles, seniors, gays, young people, families, civic activists, educators, skeptics, sobriety-oriented people, .... Come to where you may express yourself and take part without fear of condemnation!
For more information about the Tampa Bay Center, please contact us at
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tampa AT centerforinquiry.net
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Here's why: In the contemporary marketplace of ideas, one can find responsible, objective, & evidence-based information on everything from foreign policy to hormone replacement therapy. Yet when it comes to some of our most fundamental questions -- about human values, the transcendent, or the borderlands of science -- one often only hears from partisans of traditional religion, New Age practitioners, or anti-science movements.
With its local communities & public seminars, its network of scientists, philosophers & other thinkers, its grassroots advocacy & public education programs, & its popular & scholarly publications, the Center for Inquiry fills this gap, lending a credible voice to critical inquiry & the scientific outlook.
* The purpose of the Center for Inquiry is to promote and defend reason, science, and freedom of inquiry in all areas of human endeavor. The Center for Inquiry is a transnational nonprofit 501(c)(3) educational foundation that encourages evidence-based inquiry into science, pseudoscience, medicine and health, religion, ethics, education, secularism, and society.
* Through education, research, publishing, and social services, CFI seeks to present affirmative alternatives based on scientific naturalism. The Center is also interested in providing rational ethical alternatives to the reigning paranormal and religious systems of belief, and in developing communities where like-minded individuals can meet and share experiences.
* The Center for Inquiry maintains branches in North America and relationships with other Centers throughout the world.
* CFI maintains a full-time staff in Washington, DC to provide Congress with fact-based evidence for decision-making, as opposed to basing decisions on distorted claims of special interests or on superstitious biases.
* CFI has been granted "special consultative status" as a non-governmental organization (NGO) under the United Nations Economic and Social Council. This entitles the Center for Inquiry to designate official representatives to UN headquarters in New York and UN offices in Geneva and Vienna. The Center for Inquiry can participate in conferences and briefings open to NGOs, and generally present the scientific, skeptical, and secular humanist perspective to the international community.
