Humanist Clergy Join their Colleagues of Faith in Promoting the Teaching of Evolution

Humanist celebrants, chaplains, and other clergy add their voices to the Clergy Letter Project advocating evolution education and separation of church and state.

by Michael Zimmerman and Jason Wiles

The Clergy Letter Project has brought together over 16,300 clergy representing diverse faith traditions, as well as over 1,000 scientists, to promote the teaching of evolution and to create an environment that promotes respect and understanding for both religion and science. The Clergy Letter Project has now proudly added the voices of Humanist leaders.

Like their fellow clergy members representing Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, and Unitarian Universalism, Humanist clergy have crafted a powerful letter explaining the importance of teaching evolution in school classrooms and laboratories.

We, the undersigned Humanist clergy, stand in agreement with the global scientific community that the evidence of cosmological, geological, and biological evolution is overwhelming. This consensus is in no way particular to Humanism, and we stand in solidarity with our colleagues of the Christian, Jewish, Unitarian Universalist, Muslim, and Buddhist faiths who have also embraced evolution as a vital scientific concept essential to public…