Category: Bioethics | Page 32 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 10, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, courage, earth, equity, ethnicity, indigenous people, Mars, Moon, Nature (journal), Oregon, prison, race, religion, rigor, San Francisco, sex}

Top Science Journal: Let’s Export Wokeness to Outer Space

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 10, 2023

Bioethics, Physical Sciences

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Equity advocate says future space colonies should be governed similarly to places like San Francisco or Portland. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
May 10, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
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, artificial intelligence, chatbot, ChatGPT, Chinese Room, computer science, John Searle, self-reference, sentences, truth, words}

How to Break ChatGPT

_{William A. Dembski
May 10, 2023

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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One problem it has consistently displayed, and which shows that it lacks understanding, is its difficulty dealing with self-reference. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 10, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
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, abortion, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, anxiety, atheism, Charles Darwin, Communism, crime, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Dante Alighieri, demons, evil, fentanyl, Fyodor Dostoevsky, homeless, intelligent design, Jonathan Choe, Judeo-Christian tradition, mutilation, Return of the God Hypothesis, Russia, Soviet Union, Stephen Meyer, suicide, Templeton Prize, universe}

40 Years Ago: Solzhenitsyn’s Prophetic Warning — and Meyer’s Counterpoint of Hope

_{David Klinghoffer
May 10, 2023

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Fine-tuning

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Citing Dostoevsky, Solzhenitsyn stressed the need to be intellectually prepared to meet the challenge of atheism. That preparation requires a choice. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 8, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Philosophy
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, abortion, artificial intelligence, babies, ChatGPT, chimpanzees, computer, dementia, human life, humans, infanticide, infants, medicine, persons, Peter Singer, pregnancy, Princeton University, self-awareness, sentience, unconsciousness}

Peter Singer Compares Abortion to Turning Off a Computer

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 8, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine, Philosophy

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Singer first claims that should an AI ever become “sentient,” turning it off would be akin to killing a being with the highest moral value. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
April 28, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
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, algebra, Arthur Conan Doyle, books, C.S. Lewis, fiction, geometry, intelligent design, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jurassic Park, Leo Tolstoy, literature, mathematician, meaning, Michael Crichton, New York Times, order}

Why Mathematics and Literature Point to Intelligent Design

_{Peter Biles
April 28, 2023

Bioethics, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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In an era where un-design is celebrated, a mathematician shows that structure and order are inherent in both literature and the universe. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
April 27, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Scientific Freedom
Technology
Tagged
, 1984 (novel), books, Brave New World, censorship, dystopia, libraries, music, novels, paper, podcasts, radios, Singularity, sound, transhumanism}

Here’s Another Transhumanist Dream Come True — Revisiting Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451

_{Peter Biles
April 27, 2023

Bioethics, Scientific Freedom, Technology

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Despite all the transhumanist predictions of the Singularity, it’s hard to dismiss the fact that to a certain degree we’ve already merged with our machines. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 27, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, children, Friedrich Nietzsche, gender dysphoria, hormones, lifestyle, mastectomies, Medicaid, mental illness, penis, puberty, Singularity, spinal cord, Stanford University, surgery, transgenderism, transhumanism, uterus, vagina}

We’re Seeing the First Wave of Applied Transhumanism

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 27, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

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OK. Let’s get real. Most of the morphological transformations for which transhumanists yearn will almost surely never come to pass. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 23, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Science Reporting
Tagged
, abandonment, assisted suicide, Belgium, Canada, Canadians, doctors, euthanasia, Hippocratic Oath, lethal injection, mental illness, Netherlands, New York Times, patients, policymakers, prescription, psychiatry, suicide, United States}

NYT Pushes Suicide for the Mentally Ill

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 23, 2023

Bioethics, Science Reporting

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Clancy Martin’s first paragraph makes clear why his thesis should be rejected out of hand. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 3, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Belgium, civilization, culture, emotions, feelings, females, gender, gender dysphoria, Germany, males, society, thought, transgenderism}

In Belgium, Subjectivity Triumphs Over Biology

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 3, 2023

Bioethics, Biology, Life Sciences

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The attitude will metastasize across society and culture, eventually corroding our most fundamental institutions and societal structures. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 2, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Life Sciences
Tagged
, New York Times, orcas}

Freeing Captured Orca Could Be Cruel

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 2, 2023

Bioethics, Life Sciences

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I understand the motive, but this could be a case of ideology trumping actual animal welfare. And I can’t help thinking of the Little Prince’s fox. Read More ›