Bruce Miller, besides being Board Member Cindy King's father, is a humanist counselor in San Luis Obispo, California. He also subscribes to this journal and gave a generous contribution to our essay contest. Here is his reworking of the Lord's Prayer and the Apostles' Creed:

Prayer

Fellow humans who labor in the halls of learning,
        glory be to the process of education
        and the scientific method.
May truth, forever changing, reside in the human mind
        as we struggle to understand ourselves.
May I have the strength to replace old assumptions when
        confronted with new evidence.
May I be judged not by past beliefs,
        but by my willingness to change.
May truth, based upon faith in logic, probability, rational
        thought, and verification through replication be the basis
        for renunciation of absolute authority and the source of
        democratic interactions.
For all people, forever and ever. Amen.

Creed

I believe in the theory of probability based upon mathematical principles and in the discovery of knowledge through the scientific method. I believe in the power of the human mind as it has evolved over time. I believe in the development of life through the process of evolution and in the modification and generalization of truth as it is discovered through the examination of facts. I believe in the renunciation of dogma as it is handed down by unquestioned authority. Thence, I shall be judged by my actions and my beliefs as they rest in faith based upon inquiry, openness, tolerance, and the uncertainty principle and may I dwell in the house of skepticism forever and ever. Amen.