Merrill Miller
Posts by Merrill Miller (page 7)
Stand in Awe of This 30-Foot-Long Prehistoric Crocodile!
Many humanists dedicate tireless energy and time to advancing quality science education in our public schools. With the religious right attempting to remove the... Read More
This Land Was Your Land, But Now It’s Our Land
When I heard the news that an armed militia had taken over a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon and was demanding that the government... Read More
“I Was Always Skeptical”: An Interview with Star Trek’s John de Lancie
At its 75th Anniversary Conference in Chicago, IL, the American Humanist Association will be pleased to present the Humanist Arts Award to John de... Read More
Darwin Day Resolution Reintroduced in Congress by Rep. Jim Himes
US Representative Jim Himes (CT-04) introduced the Darwin Day Resolution, US House Resolution 548, in anticipation of Charles Darwin’s 207th birthday on February 12,... Read More
Abortion Providers Are the Ones Who Are Really “Pro-Life”
I’ve always bristled when discussions of the legality and morality of abortion are reduced to simplistic “pro-choice vs. pro-life” rhetoric. Neither term accurately reflects... Read More
“Nones” Still Rise, but the US is Far from Secular
In case you had any lingering doubts, the recently released 2014 Pew Religious Landscape Study has found that “the rise of the nones” is... Read More
Filtering Fact from Fiction: A Humanist Response to GMOs
Last week, despite protests from anti-GMO groups, the European Parliament rejected a measure that would allow individual countries to ban genetically modified organisms (GMOs)... Read More