Category: Bioethics | Page 33 | Science and Culture Today

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March 31, 2023

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Bioethics
Evolution
Philosophy
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, Amazon, cells, Daily Mail, disease, Elon Musk, futurists, Google, human beings, immortality, longevity, Ray Kurzweil, robots, transhumanists}

Pre-Order Immortality Now! (It’s Only 8 Years Away, Apparently)

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March 31, 2023

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Would living forever in a utopian technological society really be as great as the transhumanists insist? Read More ›

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Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 30, 2023

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Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Science Reporting
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, climate change, conservation, currency, inflation, Lake Erie, mushrooms, nature rights, New York Times, personhood, rights, squirrels, United States, Utah, Western civilization}

Let’s Declare the Great Salt Lake a Person?

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March 30, 2023

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Science Reporting

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If a squirrel or mushroom and all other earthly entities somehow possess rights, the vibrancy of rights withers. Read More ›

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March 29, 2023

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Bioethics
Evolution
Science
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, abolitionist movement, Adrian Desmond, Charles Darwin, correspondence, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, Darwinian racism, evolution, history, ID the Future, intelligent design, James Moore, podcast, Racism, Richard Weikart, Robert Shedinger, slavery, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms}

Robert Shedinger: Darwin’s Sacred Cause Is “Historical Fiction”

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March 29, 2023

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The effect of the book is to misrepresent Darwin in such a way as to make those who reject Darwinism appear to be opposing a saintly anti-abolitionist. Read More ›

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Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 29, 2023

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Bioethics
Medicine
Science
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, advance directive, California, Canada, Colorado, compassion, Connecticut, dehydration, disabilities, euthanasia, Hawaii, heart, human life, kidneys, liver, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, mental illness, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, new york, nihilism, Oregon, organ transplant, Terri Schiavo, Vermont, VSED}

A Culture-of-Death Tipping Point

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March 29, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine, Science

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A legal battle raged for several years during which the country agonized and argued about the right and moral course. Read More ›

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Peter Biles

Date
March 28, 2023

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Bioethics
Faith & Science
Technology
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, C.S. Lewis, Cambridge University, Dante, Discovery Institute Press, G.K. Chesterton, George Gilder, Holocaust, Homo sapiens, John Milton, knowledge, Malcolm Muggeridge, morality, relativism, scientism, That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man, The Restoration of Man, Winston Churchill}

Michael D. Aeschliman on C. S. Lewis and Scientism

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March 28, 2023

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Technology

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Scientism claims that science alone dictates the truth, although this system of thought depends on non-scientific reasons to come to such a conclusion. Read More ›

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March 25, 2023

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Bioethics
Faith & Science
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, Andrew McDiarmid, C.S. Lewis, ID the Future, natural law, podcast, scientism, Space Trilogy, That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man, The Restoration of Man}

Aeschliman on C. S. Lewis, Scientism, and the Restoration of Man

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March 25, 2023

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As Michael D. Aeschliman notes, Lewis powerfully illustrated the shortcomings and dangers of scientism in his final Space Trilogy novel. Read More ›

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Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 24, 2023

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Bioethics
Medicine
Science
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, assisted suicide, barbiturates, COVID-19, death, Death with Dignity, doctors, euthanasia, lethal injection, nurse practitioners, pandemic, patients, suicide, telemedicine, terminal illness}

Death Activists Oppose Limits on Virtual Access to Assisted Suicide

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March 24, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine, Science

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What activists really seek is assisted suicide (and eventually, lethal-injection euthanasia) without meaningful restrictions. Read More ›

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Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 22, 2023

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Bioethics
Medicine
Science
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, Canada, crime, culture, euthanasia, human life, insulin, Jack Kevorkian, judges, murder}

Euthanasia’s Cultural Collateral Damage: Less Respect for Human Life

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March 22, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine, Science

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Canada has fallen off the euthanasia moral cliff by allowing broad categories of people to be killed by doctors as a means of ending “suffering.” Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
March 22, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Culture
Evolution
Tagged
, abolitionist movement, Adrian Desmond, American Revolution, American South, anti-racism, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, Darwinian evolution, Harriet Martineau, historiography, James Moore, Journal of Researches, racists, Sacred Cause (series), scholarship, science fiction, slavery, University of Chicago Press}

A Failed Attempt to Turn Darwin into Wilberforce

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March 22, 2023

Bioethics, Culture, Evolution

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Nice try, Desmond and Moore. But criticizing Darwinian evolution does not make one a racist. The real Darwin is a far more ambiguous and conflicted figure. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
March 20, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, abolitionist movement, Adrian Desmond, Cambridge, Charles Darwin, citations, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, Down House, England, evolution, historiography, James Moore, John Stuart Mill, Louis Agassiz, Racism, Sacred Cause (series), slavery}

Darwin and the “Eyre Affair”: A Speculative Tale

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March 20, 2023

Bioethics, Evolution

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October 7, 1865, saw a revolt break out in Jamaica in which 18 officials and militia men were killed by members of the freed black population. Read More ›