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Upstate Enlightenment
28 October 2005Amherst, New York, home of Free Inquiry, the skeptics' periodical of choice, and its parent organization, the Council for Secular Humanism, this weekend hosts its 10th Annual World Congress, "Toward a New Enlightenment," as a response to religious encroachments on science, medicine and "democracy itself." Over the course of three days, participants will explore religiously-tinged issues such as physician-assisted suicide, evolution, global warming, and stem-cell research with a pointed emphasis on science rather than faith. Congress attendees include the outspoken atheist scientist, Richard Dawkins, Nobel Prize laureates, and Etienne-Emile Baulieu, discoverer of RU486.
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