This isn't a facetious statement. I just don't get it. Ira Laufer, a reconstructionist. I think he's right that our positions aren't as far apart as they initially seemed to me. I'll therefore concentrate here on Bernard's ethical position.
Nature is egocentric and Darwinian.
Here I'm afraid I must still demur, and for two distinct reasons. The position Bernard describes has not been held by any responsible secular humanist I know of, and certainly not by me. I'll offer support for my view if we continue this exchange. For now, I'll merely point out that Bernard also appears to be committed to a position something like mine in that he seems to rule out a supernatural basis for ethics just as surely as I do. And that's clearly not what he's maintaining.