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John Hooper to talk on RN in Bedford Mass
Some of you in the Boston area might be interested in this talk on Sunday March 6 at 10:30am at First Parish Bedford UU, 75 Great Road, Bedford Mass. John Hooper is president of HUUmanists.
A "Modern Synthesis" of Religious Humanism and Religious Naturalism
John B. Hooper
ABSTRACT
Over the past hundred years, religious naturalists have taken a leadership role in celebrating the awesome epic of biological evolution. For centuries, humanists have celebrated the shared human experience of being alive and the inherent worth and dignity of all living human beings. Defending human freedom and drawing on the revelations of science (without resorting to supernatural hypotheses), both religious humanists and religious naturalists seek to continuously improve our objective understanding of the universe and our place in it. Exciting new multidisciplinary scientific studies incorporating tools such as molecular biological manipulations, genetic modification of cells and neuro-imaging (among many others) are leading to new revelations about the nature of human experience itself. Does this nascent naturalizing of experience provide a unique opportunity for generating a "modern synthesis" of religious humanism and religious naturalism?
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