Brief Biography of

Frank R. Zindler

Name: Frank R. Zindler

Born: 1939

Profession: Linguist and Scientific Information Analyst; Managing Editor, American Atheist Press; former professor of biology and geology, and Chairman, Division of Science, Nursing, & Technology, Fulton-Montgomery Community College (State University of New York)

Degrees:

• B.S. Biology, University of Michigan, 1963
• M.A. Geology, Indiana University, 1967
• Ph.D. Candidate, SUNY-Albany, Brain Physiology

Affiliations:

• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• American Chemical Society
• New York Academy of Sciences
• Ohio Academy of Sciences
• American Schools of Oriental Research
• Society of Biblical Literature
• Jesus Seminar & Jesus Project
• American Humanist Association
• American Atheists, Inc., Board of Directors and Past President

Publications:

• Dial-an-Atheist Greatest Hits From Ohio (1991)
• Annotated edition of Thomas Paine's Age of Reason, Part III (1993)
• Annotated translation & annotation of Arthur Drew's The Legend of Saint Peter (1997)
• Collected short works, Through Atheist Eyes: Scenes from a World that Won't Reason. Volume I: Religions & Scriptures; Volume II: Science & Pseudoscience; Volume III: Debates; Volume IV: Omnium-Gatherum (2011)

Personal: Philosophically, I am a logical empiricist and materialist, and I am a veteran of over 400 radio and TV interviews and debates. I am a Christ-myth advocate and am pursuing research into how Christianity could have begun without a historical Jesus of Nazareth. I am married with one daughter and three grandchildren.