Book review: Victor J. Stenger ‘God and the Atom’ admin@humanism.scot • HSS • October 2015 by Paul Braterman, originally published in Humanitie magazine. Victor Stenger, as physics professor at the University of Hawaii was personally involved in the experiments that helped establish the current standard model of the fundamental particles of matter. He is now formally retired,…
Meryl Cubley: A small book about a big subject… admin@humanism.scot • HSS • October 2015 This piece first appeared in Humanitie magazine, Autumn 2013 edition All human societies have undergone changes that, on an evolutionary timescale, are both rapid and recent. But do we really need to cherry pick from the past to improve our…
Dialogue with unbelievers: three hurdles for opponents of humanists admin@humanism.scot • HSS • October 2015 This edition first appeared in Humanitie magazine, Winter 2015 Horns and forked tail? Dialogue is better than ranting, so why can’t we discuss core beliefs with unbelievers, says Dr. Stuart Hannabus: We may often find ourselves speaking with unbelievers. They may not…
New ‘Religious Freedom’ group in Parliament claims ‘Christian Persecution’ admin@humanism.scot • HSS • October 2015 by Gary McLelland A new Cross-Party Group has been established in The Scottish Parliament to promote ‘religious freedom’. Several MSPs have joined the Group; Dave Thompson (SNP), Chair of Christians for Independence, and a prominent campaigner against Equal Marriage, has been…
Julian Baggini: Child free and happy thank you very much admin@humanism.scot • HSS • September 2015 This piece originally appeared in Humanitie magazine, Winter 2013. One of the oddest things ever said to me was a follow up to a question about whether I had any children, which I answered negatively. “You will,” my new friend said,…
Nigel Warburton: The child in the photograph admin@humanism.scot • HSS • September 2015 This piece originally appeared in Humanitie Magazine, Winter 2013 edition. I recently found an old monochrome photograph taken of me when I was two and a half. It fell out of a book. It was one shot from a polyphoto…
Book Review: Paul F Cockburn ‘An Atheist’s History of Belief’ admin@humanism.scot • HSS • September 2015 This piece originally appeared in Humanitie magazine, Winter 2015 Paul F Cockburn talks to author Matthew Kneale about ‘An Atheist’s History of Belief’ What motivates an author to write a book? Given how much time and energy such an endeavour…
How religious is your non-denominational school? admin@humanism.scot • HSS • September 2015 This piece originally appeared in the Winter 2014 edition of Humanitie magazine. How religious is your non-denominational school? You may be surprised by the extent to which religion, specifically Christianity, is involved in children’s education in Scotland – even in ‘non-denominational’…
Pause for Thought with Julian Bagini: Death admin@humanism.scot • HSS • September 2015 by Julian Bagini, originally published in the 2012 Autumn edition of Humanitie magazine. I sometimes wonder if the core difference between supporters and opponents of assisted dying is that the latter think death is the worst thing that can happen…
Ecohumanism: A call to action by Terry Martin admin@humanism.scot • HSS • September 2015 By Terry Martin, HSS member, originally published in the 2012 Autumn edition of Humanitie magazine. Are we humanists hard headed and unsentimental about the environment? Do we think that animals and other flora and fauna don’t have moral status whereas…
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