Someone else who seems to have the same view of humans as those "Nature is Speaking" videos is that entertaining "science guy," Bill Nye, honored as humanist of the year in 2010. You and lots of other kids may have watched his PBS tv show, laughed and learned science after school. But lately he's revealed another side of his beliefs, a hardline atheistic outlook that most Americans don't share.
He sees humans and their place in the universe as . . well, here is an excerpt from his speech (at 5:08 in the video) at the American Humanist Association:
"I'm insignificant. ... I am just another speck of sand. And the earth really in the cosmic scheme of things is another speck. And the sun an unremarkable star. ... And the galaxy is a speck. I'm a speck on a speck orbiting a speck among other specks among still other specks in the middle of specklessness. I suck."
"Under Nye's outlook, even humanity's advanced abilities, like our moral codes and selfless altruism, are not special gifts that show we were made for a higher purpose."
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