Links for the Creation/Evolution Controversy (not a debate topic)

The TalkOrigins Archive is a collection of articles and essays, most of which have appeared in talk.origins at one time or another. The primary reason for this archive's existence is to provide mainstream scientific responses to the many frequently asked questions (FAQs) that appear in the talk.origins newsgroup and the frequently rebutted assertions of those advocating intelligent design or other creationist pseudosciences.

1. Maintains a network of people interested in critically examining paranormal, fringe science, and other claims, and in contributing to consumer education
   
2. Prepares bibliographies of published materials that carefully examine such claims
   
3. Encourages research by objective and impartial inquiry in areas where it is needed
   
4. Convenes conferences and meetings
   
5. Publishes articles that examine claims of the paranormal
   
6. Does not reject claims on a priori grounds, antecedent to inquiry, but examines them objectively and carefully

The Committee is a nonprofit scientific and educational organization, started in 1976. The Skeptical Inquirer is its official journal.

Some of the founding members of CSI include scientists, academics, and science writers such as Carl Sagan, Isaac Asimov, Philip Klass, Paul Kurtz, Ray Hyman, James Randi, Martin Gardner, Sidney Hook, and others. A list of CSI fellows is published in every issue of Skeptical Inquirer magazine.