A year after our first Darwin Day podcasts podcasts, the Humanist Society of Scotland is launching its second series on February 11th 2008 with comedian and broadcaster Arthur Smith presenting his secular Thought for the Day.

The BBC does not allow secular thinkers on 'Thought For The Day' and is committed to keeping the slot religious. We believe that morality and ethics are not the sole preserve of faith groups and have decided to create and podcast our own Humanist TFTDs at a new site, Thought for the World

Our aim is both to offer an alternative to religious morality and to show the BBC and the public that Humanists can be equally, if not more, thought provoking when tackling moral and ethical issues as religious thinkers.

This year's contributors include comedian Arthur Smith, Professor A.C. Grayling, novelist Christopher Brookmyre, political commentator Iain McWhirter and philosophers Nigel Warburton, Stephen Law and Jullian Baggini.

A number of members from the Humanist Society of Scotland will also be podcasting, including Stella
Potter, Clare Marsh and Secretary Gordon Ross, along with representatives of The British Humanist Association and the Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association.