Centre for Inquiry Canada (CFIC)
Your humanist community for scientific, skeptical, secular, and rational inquiry.
By Keith Douglas My retelling of the classic story of Hilbert’s Hotel had one more point beyond “Think about infinity!” It was about how dangerous it is to think one understands something by the vividness and life-like nature of the description, and about how dangerous it is to regard “how something appears” as the be all…
CFIC is retracting this article, as we did not sufficiently investigate some of the claims that were made. Here is a portion of the most recent statement from the American Psychological Association (APA) on the subject: “APA’s governing Council of Representatives seated a task force to review its August 2015 resolution in light…
By John Varghese “Out beyond ideas of wrong doing and right doing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.” — Jalaluddin Rumi I feel I have been an atheist my entire life even when I was a practicing Christian. Oxymoronic though this statement sounds, it seems a perfectly natural state of being to me!…
By Seanna Watson Current COVID-19 disease and death rate, as a proportion of population: Globally: 1 in 312 has contracted COVID-19; 1 in 9260 has died Canada: 1 in 296 has contracted COVID-19; 1 in 4147 has died US: 1 in 55 has contracted COVID-19; 1 in 1812 has died As of August 30, the…
What is it like to live in hiding, knowing that people want to kill you for not accepting their religious faith? Join us on Thursday, September 10, at 8:00pm EST, as author and podcaster Ali Rizvi* interviews “Omer,” a refugee being supported by CFIC. Asking questions is one of the most noble things that humans do. The…