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The Real Perils of Human Population Growth
About forty years ago, the world population was only 3.5 billion, or about half of the present population of 6.7 billion people. Most of us seem to ignore or be unaware of the magnitude of this rapid expansion and the vast changes that it is causing throughout the world. Indeed, the daily and even the annual impacts of this growth go unnoticed. Yet the impacts of the growing world population on land, water, energy, and biota resources are real and indeed overwhelming. More |
The Evolution of the Mind and What It Means to Humanism
One fairly recent outgrowth of Charles Darwin’s legacy is the investigation of the evolution of religion by cognitive scientists using the tools of biology, psychology, anthropology, and paleontology, with a strong dose of history and philosophy thrown in, writes Frederic March in the January/February 2009 issue of The Humanist. March is president of the Humanist Society of New Mexico and the author of The Bible Through the Eyes of Its Authors - A Political History of Ancient Israel and Judah. More |
The Vatican Body-Count
The following are a few highlights from the monograph The Vatican Body-Count. A study of the Holy See's share of responsibility for excess mother, child, and other sickness and death by David A Willey and Jack Parsons (NAC Trustee, deceased), first published in October 2004. The highlights selected here represent about two-thirds of the full monograph. More |
Euthanasia: A global issue
Euthanasia has become a complex global issue for the 21st century. In response to worldwide pleas for euthanasia from the terminally ill, and despite objections from the Vatican and the Christian Right, "right-to-die" societies have been formed in countries throughout the world. This essay by Gerald Larue touches on some of the humanistic ethical dimensions involved in efforts to legalise euthanasia. More
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