From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!faustus
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: Re: Secular Humanism
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.14
Posted: Tue Mar 15 10:21:45 1983
Received: Tue Mar 22 08:52:03 1983
References: utzoo.2869


Secular humanism is not (or should not be) a religon, or a system of 
beliefs, any more than science is or should be. It is a system of
investigation, a collection of rules that one uses to investigate
reality. And they do work, which is why secular humanism and science
have become the foremost intellectual force in the world today. To
compare science with the beliefs of any particular group of people
is like trying to compare a builder's tools with a house that he builds
in that science should be the tool by which the validity of all ideas
are judged. And this of course includes religous ideas: if there were
good scientific evidence for any religous phenomenon (which there
isn't) then we would be obligated to give it the same credit that we
give to physics and such 'sciences'. But I challenge any of those
who are opposed to secular humanism to give me a better means
of investigating the world than the scientific method of careful
experimentation and locical thought. (Divine revelation, perhaps?)

	Wayne Christopher