Secular humanists are advocates of naturalism. Naturalism in philosophy entails the rejection of the supernatural and is rooted in the domain of matter, energy and their interactions.

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Evolutionary naturalism, therefore—the belief in the combination of naturalism and evolution—is self-refuting, self-destructive, shoots itself in the foot.

Daniel Dennett, philosophical giant who championed “naturalism,” dead at 82 Part of the "New Atheist" movement, best known for work on consciousness, free will.

Instead, it is to say that naturalism and supernaturalism are more like scaffoldings within which we usually test and modify our beliefs; the scaffoldings themselves are less often open to change.

You coin the term “poetic naturalism” for your own particular brand of this guiding philosophy. Why the need for a new term?

Books & the Arts February 11, 2014 Beyond Naturalism: On Ronald Dworkin How did an essential figure in the modern revival of liberal political philosophy end up pondering issues of theology?

Scientific naturalism poses its first essential in direct antithesis to the theism of historic Christianity. The universe is both self-sufficient and self-explanatory.

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