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Secular humanism does not have the essential attributes of a religion: belief in a deity, the wish for some sort of afterlife, "sacred" dogma or texts, or an absolutist moral creed. Instead, it expresses a philosophical and ethical point of view, and it draws upon the scientific method in formulationg its naturalistic view of the nature.
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Category: Organisms
Posted on: July 21, 2006 10:04 AM, by PZ Myers
I SEE the sleeping babe, nestling the
breastsiphon of its mother;
The sleeping mother and babe—hush'd, I study them long and long.Walt Whitman
Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Mark Norman.
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Comments
Posted by: Stephanie | July 21, 2006 11:26 AM
Awwww. That's so sweet.
Posted by: Michael Bains | July 21, 2006 2:04 PM
That reminds me. I've still not got a quarter way through Leaves of Grass.
Gotta take care o' that sometime.
Posted by: The Ridger | July 21, 2006 3:06 PM
Ditto. Awwww.
Posted by: rrt | July 21, 2006 7:18 PM
It still fascinates me to see how such a sophisticated, intelligent, beautiful creature reproduces in a way so similar to the rest of its phylum. So different, and yet so much the same.
Posted by: Gerry L | July 22, 2006 4:54 PM
PZ,
Please tell me this is a joke. Isn't that mom and tens of thousands of her "babes"?