Edwin Kagin

He is a graduate of the University of Missouri and Kansas City, Missouri, and the School of Law of the University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky. Mr. Kagin is a former college English instructor, a U.S. Air Force veteran, NRA handgun instructor and Honorary Black Belt in Kenpo Karate. He was also Editor of the Adaptive Behavior Project, an NIMH grant project that created the Adaptive Behavior Scale, an instrument for assessment of mental retardation, conducted at Parsons State Hospital and Training Center in Parson, Kansas.

Mr. Kagin is admitted to practice before all courts of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Kentucky; and for the Eastern District of Michigan; United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Eight Circuits; and the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). He is a member of numerous Atheist, Freethought and state-church separation groups, and has published numerous articles dealing with religion, philosophy and politics. He is co-author of The Fundamentals of Extremism: The Christian Right in America.

Mr. Kagin has spoken and debated throughout the country. His areas of expertise include ontology (existence of God); Biblical inerrancy; state-church separation issues including the posting of the Ten Commandments and prayer in public schools; morality without religion; creationism as a religious viewpoint and not a science; and the Bible as foundation for moral behavior.