Questions to Guide Your Reading

Humanist Manifesto 2000, ch. III:  "Scientific Naturalism"

* NB:  This declaration is one of a series of such documents going back to the 1930s when the movement known as "secular humanism" first began.  This chapter sets forth secular humanism's commitment to what the authors call "scientific naturalism."

1. According to this manifesto, what are the basic commitments of those who accept "scientific naturalism"?

2. How does the Humanist Manifesto view most of the worldviews accepted today (other than their own, that is)?