Zindler Wikipedia Entry
Zindler Media & Memberships
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I am the veteran of more than 400 commercial radio and television interviews and debates in the USA, Canada, and the UK on subjects such as creation/evolution, Atheism, ethics, abortion, church-state separation, etc. I have also lectured and participated in many platform debates on these topics at many colleges and universities. In the eighties and early nineties, I had a cable-access channel, American Atheist TV Forum, in Columbus, Ohio. I have a YouTube channel, Through Atheist Eyes with Frank Zindler.
I am or have been a member of: The Berrien County Astronomical Society; Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis; The Society of Biblical Literature; The Jesus Seminar; The Jesus Project; The American Schools of Oriental Research; The American Association for the Advancement of Science (life member); The New York Academy of Sciences; Society for Neuroscience; The Committees of Correspondence [on evolution education]; The National Center for Science Education; The Ohio Academy of Science; The Society for the Scientific Study of Religion; The Hemlock Society; Zero Population Growth; Planned Parenthood (board of directors in the 70s); The Audubon Society; The American Chemical Society; The American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine; the Ohio ACLU (board of directors in the 80s); American Humanist Association; the Secular Student Alliance; American Atheists, Inc. (Board of Directors and Past President); and the Freedom From Religion Foundation. |
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Frank R. Zindler Curriculum Vitae
1939, May 23 Born in Benton Harbor, Michigan.
1952 Received 8-year scholarship to Concordia Lutheran Seminary,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for high school & seminary (unable to
accept)
1952 Began teaching keyboard instruments at the Cady School of Music.
1953 Admitted to Berrien County Astronomical Society after giving a
lecture “The Carbon-Nitrogen Cycle and Energy Production in the
Sun”
1955 Northwestern University, Summer Institute in Speech & Debate.
1956 Salutatorian, graduation from Benton Harbor High School (MI).
Chemistry Medal, several scholarships.
1956-7 Kalamazoo College (chemistry, physics, biology, German).
Winifred-Peake-Jones Prize Biology
1957 (summer) Emmanuel Missionary College (botany, education)
1958 University of Michigan honors program
1961 Andrews University (music theory, education)
1963 B.S. University of Michigan (biology major, minors in psychology, physical science, & German)
1963 (summer) University of Michigan, Intensive Greek program
1963-4 New Buffalo High School (MI) teaching biology & chemistry
1964-6 Holland High School (MI) teaching biology & earth science
1965 Michigan State University, graduate courses in education
1966 Received 11 National Science Foundation fellowships, accepting 2:
Summer at New Mexico Highlands University (pathology & molecular biology)
and academic year plus summer field work at Indiana University (geology)
1967 M.A.T. Indiana University (geology, specializing in paleontology & glacial
geology)
1967-82 Fulton-Montgomery Community College (SUNY-Johnstown)
establishing geology program, teaching various biology courses,
psychobiology, etc.
1969-70 Leave of absence to teach in Vienna, Austria, in the American International
School (biology & earth science)
1972 NSF Summer Fellowship to study computer programming & educational
program development at SUNY-Binghamton
1976-8 Chairman, Division of Science, Nursing, & Technology, Fulton-Montgomery
Community College (SUNY-Johnstown)
1971-82 Faculty co-sponsor of Student Literary Guild at F-MCC
1976 Admitted to PhD program in Neurobiology at SUNY-Albany
(Comprehensive exam waived due to perfect score on GRE Biology Examination).
Completed all course work and exams up to thesis defense
1976 Conducted seminars in Human Neuroanatomy and Behavioral Genetics for
Neurobiology Dept., SUNY-Albany
1977 New York University Post-Graduate School of Medicine, special
course on neuropathogenetics
1977 Adjunct faculty at Elmira College, teaching graduate course in
Human Ecology
1978-82 Foreign Student Advisor at F-MCC
1979 (summer) Yale University Intensive Arabic Program
1980 (summer) SUNY-New Paltz Colloquial Gulf Arabic
1981 With Niles Eldridge & Isaac Asimov co-founded the Committees of
Correspondence on Evolution Education, later reincorporated as
The National Center For Science Education, now located at
Berkeley.
1981 NSF special course at University of Dayton on Chemical Origins of Life with Sidney Fox
1982-present Chemical Abstracts Service, Dept. of Biochemistry,
Linguist, Patent Analyst, & Senior Editor
1983 The Ohio State University (conversational Hungarian & Japanese)
1984 The Ohio State University (Honors in Japanese)
1984-6 State Board of Directors (Ohio) of The American Civil Liberties Union
1984-93 Hosted and produced Columbus Cable-Access weekly program,
"American Atheist TV Forum"
1988-9 University of Wisconsin (Honors in Technical Japanese,
teleconferencing courses)
1991 Published Dial-an-Atheist Greatest Hits From Ohio
1991-3 Participated in sessions of The Jesus Seminar, presenting five
papers
1993 Published annotated edition of Thomas Paine's Age of Reason,
Part III
1995 to present Managing Editor, American Atheist Press
1997 Published English translation from the German of The Legend of Saint Peter:
A Contribution to the Mythology of Christianity, by Arthur Drews
2000 The Ohio State University (Modern Hebrew)
2003 Published The Jesus the Jews Never Knew: Sepher Toldoth Yeshu and
the Quest of the Historical Jesus in Jewish Sources
2005 Speech at World Atheist Conference, Vijayawada, India
2008 Acting President, American Atheists, Inc.
2008 Invited by the Faculty of Religious Studies to lecture on the
Origins of Christianity at the University of Münster, Germany
2009 Named a Fellow of The Jesus Project (Amherst, NY)
2011 Published first 4 volumes of collected short works,
Through Atheist Eyes: Scenes From a World That Won't Reason
2013 Published Bart Ehrman and the Quest of the Historical Jesus of Nazareth:
An Evaluation of Ehrman’sDid Jesus Exist?
2013-214 Studied Gothic, Sanskrit, and Baltic Linguistics at the Ohio State
University
2015 to present: Produced YouTube channel Through Atheist Eyes With Frank
Zindler
2019 Published autobiography Confessions of a Born-Again Atheist: The Implausible Lives of a
Godless Guy, coming out of the closet
1952 Received 8-year scholarship to Concordia Lutheran Seminary,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for high school & seminary (unable to
accept)
1952 Began teaching keyboard instruments at the Cady School of Music.
1953 Admitted to Berrien County Astronomical Society after giving a
lecture “The Carbon-Nitrogen Cycle and Energy Production in the
Sun”
1955 Northwestern University, Summer Institute in Speech & Debate.
1956 Salutatorian, graduation from Benton Harbor High School (MI).
Chemistry Medal, several scholarships.
1956-7 Kalamazoo College (chemistry, physics, biology, German).
Winifred-Peake-Jones Prize Biology
1957 (summer) Emmanuel Missionary College (botany, education)
1958 University of Michigan honors program
1961 Andrews University (music theory, education)
1963 B.S. University of Michigan (biology major, minors in psychology, physical science, & German)
1963 (summer) University of Michigan, Intensive Greek program
1963-4 New Buffalo High School (MI) teaching biology & chemistry
1964-6 Holland High School (MI) teaching biology & earth science
1965 Michigan State University, graduate courses in education
1966 Received 11 National Science Foundation fellowships, accepting 2:
Summer at New Mexico Highlands University (pathology & molecular biology)
and academic year plus summer field work at Indiana University (geology)
1967 M.A.T. Indiana University (geology, specializing in paleontology & glacial
geology)
1967-82 Fulton-Montgomery Community College (SUNY-Johnstown)
establishing geology program, teaching various biology courses,
psychobiology, etc.
1969-70 Leave of absence to teach in Vienna, Austria, in the American International
School (biology & earth science)
1972 NSF Summer Fellowship to study computer programming & educational
program development at SUNY-Binghamton
1976-8 Chairman, Division of Science, Nursing, & Technology, Fulton-Montgomery
Community College (SUNY-Johnstown)
1971-82 Faculty co-sponsor of Student Literary Guild at F-MCC
1976 Admitted to PhD program in Neurobiology at SUNY-Albany
(Comprehensive exam waived due to perfect score on GRE Biology Examination).
Completed all course work and exams up to thesis defense
1976 Conducted seminars in Human Neuroanatomy and Behavioral Genetics for
Neurobiology Dept., SUNY-Albany
1977 New York University Post-Graduate School of Medicine, special
course on neuropathogenetics
1977 Adjunct faculty at Elmira College, teaching graduate course in
Human Ecology
1978-82 Foreign Student Advisor at F-MCC
1979 (summer) Yale University Intensive Arabic Program
1980 (summer) SUNY-New Paltz Colloquial Gulf Arabic
1981 With Niles Eldridge & Isaac Asimov co-founded the Committees of
Correspondence on Evolution Education, later reincorporated as
The National Center For Science Education, now located at
Berkeley.
1981 NSF special course at University of Dayton on Chemical Origins of Life with Sidney Fox
1982-present Chemical Abstracts Service, Dept. of Biochemistry,
Linguist, Patent Analyst, & Senior Editor
1983 The Ohio State University (conversational Hungarian & Japanese)
1984 The Ohio State University (Honors in Japanese)
1984-6 State Board of Directors (Ohio) of The American Civil Liberties Union
1984-93 Hosted and produced Columbus Cable-Access weekly program,
"American Atheist TV Forum"
1988-9 University of Wisconsin (Honors in Technical Japanese,
teleconferencing courses)
1991 Published Dial-an-Atheist Greatest Hits From Ohio
1991-3 Participated in sessions of The Jesus Seminar, presenting five
papers
1993 Published annotated edition of Thomas Paine's Age of Reason,
Part III
1995 to present Managing Editor, American Atheist Press
1997 Published English translation from the German of The Legend of Saint Peter:
A Contribution to the Mythology of Christianity, by Arthur Drews
2000 The Ohio State University (Modern Hebrew)
2003 Published The Jesus the Jews Never Knew: Sepher Toldoth Yeshu and
the Quest of the Historical Jesus in Jewish Sources
2005 Speech at World Atheist Conference, Vijayawada, India
2008 Acting President, American Atheists, Inc.
2008 Invited by the Faculty of Religious Studies to lecture on the
Origins of Christianity at the University of Münster, Germany
2009 Named a Fellow of The Jesus Project (Amherst, NY)
2011 Published first 4 volumes of collected short works,
Through Atheist Eyes: Scenes From a World That Won't Reason
2013 Published Bart Ehrman and the Quest of the Historical Jesus of Nazareth:
An Evaluation of Ehrman’sDid Jesus Exist?
2013-214 Studied Gothic, Sanskrit, and Baltic Linguistics at the Ohio State
University
2015 to present: Produced YouTube channel Through Atheist Eyes With Frank
Zindler
2019 Published autobiography Confessions of a Born-Again Atheist: The Implausible Lives of a
Godless Guy, coming out of the closet