You can each have your own thread to talk about being a Bright or being a Skeptic, go start one. This one is about Humanists.

The Expatriator - 04 December 2009 03:59 AM

You can each have your own thread to talk about being a Bright or being a Skeptic, go start one. This one is about Humanists.

Sorry expatriator, the OP mentioned both Skeptics and Freethinkers - thought I’d just carry on in that vein.  I obviously got it wrong.  I’ll try harder to stay on-topic next time

Marcosll - 16 April 2008 02:24 PM

Example,

Based on evolutionary theory and survival of the fittest it would be logical and thus morally ok for some humans who consider themselves superior to destroy others who are using up resources, it’s fair competition after all. Killing is also natural.

You realise this statement has not basis within evolutionary theory. The whole survival of the fittest, original coined by a social scientists, was only later used in regards to evolution as a metaphor for “better adapted for immediate, local environment”
For example, where a number of males survive to reproductive age, yet only a few ever mate, the difference in reproductive success would stem from factors other than the ability to survive, such as an ability to successfully attract mates. In an evolutionary reproductive sense, fitness is the average reproductive output of a class of genetic variants in a gene pool, and should not be confused with meaning physically fit - biggest, fastest or strongest - and which does not necessarily lead to reproductive success.

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-intro-to-biology.html

Good to have a bit of intellectual debate on here!
I was thinking of joining in Syberians group. But didn’ really know what a humanist really was/believed in.
Thanks to all above for enlightening me 😊