articulate well the connection between this view of man’s origin and his moral obligation. These humanists declared that: First: religious humanists regard the universe as self-existing and not created. Second: humanism believes that man is a part of nature and that he has emerged as the result of a continuous process.14 Since there is no God and humans evolved by natural processes, secular humanists believe that “the nature of the universe depicted by modern science makes unacceptable any supernatural