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Old 04-11-2006, 03:57 PM   #105
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Originally Posted by troutman
A great deal of humanist and christian philosophy is the same. Some people are both Christians and humanists.

Here for example is a Declaration of Humanist Principles:

http://www.calgaryhumanist.ca/declaration.html

I think most people would agree with all the statements, except for 3 and 10.

III. Humanists advocate the use of the scientific method, both as a guide to distinguish fact from fiction and to help develop beneficial and creative uses of science and technology.

X. A fundamental principle of humanism is the rejection of beliefs held in absence of verifiable evidence, such as beliefs based solely on dogma, revelation, mysticism or appeals to the supernatural.
As a Christian I can endorse everything there except X. I have no problem with the correct employment of the scientific method.
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