Inspirationen der technokratischen Welt im Internet

Welcome to the Center for Inquiry

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) organization that encourages evidence-based inquiry into science, pseudoscience, medicine and health, religion, ethics, secularism, and society.

Through education, research, publishing, and social services, it 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.

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The Center for Inquiry is a daring new concept. Although modern world civilization is based upon the achievements of science and technology, until this time there has been no authoritative and credible voice defending the scientific outlook in examining religion, human values, and the borderlands of science. If the naturalistic outlook is to supplant the ancient mythological narratives of the past, it needs a new institution devoted to its articulation and dramatization to the public. The Center for Inquiry is that institution.

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A Cosmic World View

As a broad picture of the cosmos, the naturalistic-scientific world view underlies modern technological civilization itself. And yet it faces numerous cultural competitors. Paranormalists and antinaturalists maintain that we must go beyond the concepts and methods of science to probe transcendental realms beyond the normal or natural world. The paranormal and antinaturalist paradigm, on the contrary, maintains that some things are "unknown" or "unknowable" and transcend the methods of objective scientific inquiry. They hold "the doctrine of two truths": the natural world is amenable to reason and experience, but the deeper reality of the supernatural spiritual universe is allegedly known only by faith and intuition. Naturalists are never willing to abandon their search for causal explanations; spiritualist-paranormalists are content to invoke occult explanations. Theists have heralded their faith in a mysterious sacred reality beyond; naturalists have chosen to focus on understanding this world and our life within it.

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Gesellschaft zur wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung von Parawissenschaften e.V.
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Die GWUP ist ein wegen Förderung der Volksbildung als gemeinnützig anerkannter Verein, in dem sich über 700 Wissenschaftler und wissenschaftlich Interessierte für Aufklärung und kritisches Denken, für sorgfältige Untersuchungen parawissenschaftlicher Behauptungen und die Popularisierung von wissenschaftlichen Methoden und Erkenntnissen einsetzen.

Die GWUP informiert aus wissenschaftlicher Sicht über Parawissenschaften, Pseudowissenschaften und verwandte Überzeugungssysteme. Wir wenden uns gegen pseudowissenschaftliche Behauptungen und esoterische Heilslehren und möchten durch fundierte Informationen die Anfälligkeit für pseudowissenschaftliche Vorstellungen und Versprechungen abbauen.

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