Author: Gary Wood
Gary Wood was educated as a biologist. He recently retired from a successful career as a small-town businessman and politician. For eighteen years, he was editor of the Mountain Monthly newspaper, which still runs his Everyday Philosophy column.
Secular Humanism Is Defining
Secular defines my narrative as based on my own reasoning, experience, and knowledge of science rather than someone else’s faith. Humanism defines the basis for my own beliefs. My narrative goes like this: Earth formed about four and a half billion years ago. Life began about a half billion years later, apparently as soon as …