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